SOLVED (was: Re: Getting rid of the penguin)

["Randy W. Sims" <RandyS@ThePierianSpring.org>]

On 1/27/2004 9:52 AM, Tapio Lehtonen wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 06:22:35AM -0500, Randy W. Sims wrote:
>
> > I've installed Debian 3r1 on my Toshiba Satellite 2655XDVD laptop. When 
> > booting there is a picture of tux in upper left corner that remains 
> > throughout the boot and login. 'clear' makes it go away. But, linux is 
> > confused about the size of the screen; If I pull up a manpage, it 
> > displays fine until I page forward when about the top 5 lines remain at 
> > the top of the screen, and things get worse when I page backwards.
> >
> > How can I correct this?
>
>
> Go to the second virtual terminal with Alt-F2.
>
> Or issue command
>   resize
> to get the correct screen size to system.

Thanks, this fixed it. At least for some video modes, I'll have to 
experiment more with the vga= line in lilo.conf.

Regards,
Randy.