Re: dell lattitude - console screen size
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 14:11, Dave Price wrote:
> Only question is - does anyone know what linux boot commands i need to
> use to get the console screens to use the whole display - right now they
> are 80x25, but with a ~1.5" margin all the way around the border -
On most laptops that's up to your BIOS. You'll need to turn on screen
scaling for text.
Basically, your display is a higher resolution than text mode requires.
If the laptop allocates 1 LCD pixel per pixel in your text mode, it
doesn't fill the screen, so you get the big black borders. If you tell
the laptop to scale the text, it will do a bit of scaling and dithering
math and enlarge the text to fill the screen.
--Josh
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