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Re: dell lattitude - console screen size



On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:11:26PM -0600, Dave Price wrote:
> [ snip ]
> 
> 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 - 

AFAIR (Haven't used a latitude for 'bout a year), Fn+F7 should help you
out here. It might not be F7, but it *should* be labelled "Font". The
BIOS sorts it out, those keypresses are not sent to the OS.

Or look into framebuffer...

> I have not set up X yet, and will probably run in console more quite a
> bit on this little guy, so a good console display would be a plus.
> 
> aloha (and TIA),
> dave


HTH
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