On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 12:01:44AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 03:11:26PM -0600, Dave Price wrote:
> > [ snip ]
>
> 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...
>
framebuffer works great. the kernel on the isolinux cdrom seems to have
it built in - i was able to test by typing 'linux vga=773' at the lilo
boot: prompt - updating lilo (boy the commented file is sure a lot nicer
than it used to be!) meant I had to recreate / recopy my bootsect.lnx
from /dev/hda3 (my linux /) to the NT partition - unfortunately, it
seems that the c:\bootsect.lnx = "A Better OS" in boot.ini needs to be
C: and not D: -- too bad, since i can mount the fat32 (win2k) D: drive
under linux, but not the NTFS C: - so i need to go into win2k once to cp
the file from D: to C: - of course I now have a script in linux to build
the file and pass it to the win2k D: drive, and another in the startup
to move from d: to c: whenever win2k is booted, so changes ripple
through nicely.
I am leaving the win2k boot loader in place on this box, because i may
need to let non linux users use it once in a while.
Now for X and sound ... this woody seems nice and 'solid' compared to my
main was-potato-now-woody box, it is just all there from the start, i
guess.
Thanks for all the great input.
aloha,
dave
--------- unix, because rebooting is for adding new hardware.
( ... and passing changes to win2k too, i guess)
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