Re: [OT] 4-way split screen on Dell laptop 8000

[Nori Heikkinen <nori@sccs.swarthmore.edu>]

on Wed, 11 Jun 2003 02:00:45PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins insinuated:
> On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 01:43:14PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> 
> > My main problem right now is that on the console (i haven't even
> > gotten X up yet), the screen is normal for the top quarter, and
> > then redraws itself ontop of itself beginning at the 1-quarter,
> > half, and 3-quarter marks.  The result is pretty legible for the
> > second quarter, but absolutely illegible at the bottom.
> 
> Have you disabled the frame buffer?  

no -- what is that, and how would i disable it?

</nori>

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