[plug] debian console screen size

[Caleb Duggan]

There's no setting to stretch the display or anything.........whats  
happening is the text dosent take up the whole screen...so theres a big  
black border around it..........when i start X at 800x600, it takes up the  
whole screen though.

to get into my bios i need to boot off some floppy - its really  
weird!........i think there's meant to be some partition on it....that i  
wiped:P


On Sun, 30 Oct 2005 13:35:34 +0800, Craig Ringer  
<craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:

> Ashley Jennings wrote:
>> Hey Caleb :-) ,
>>  my toshiba laptop has a BIOS setting
>> LCD Display Stretch = Enabled
>>  which expands console out to full size.  There may be similar on yours.
>
> Good point. was working on the assumption that he wanted more working  
> area while keeping crisp, clean text, which using a framebuffer console  
> will get you. A VGA console with small fonts scaled up to full screen  
> will probably be .. er .. ugly.
>
> If you're happy with the standard console size and can live with the  
> scaling, then sure that's a good plan. Personally, scaling is the first  
> thing I turn off.
>
>> It also has the smallest window to press F1 to get into System Setup
>> of any boot sequence I have seen. about 0.003 of a second from power
>> on!  I just tap on it like I'm playing Hyper Olympics and everything
>> is cool    (c:
>
> I was never sure F1 actually did get into BIOS on Toshiba laptops,  
> having never been able to actually hit it in time. The easiest way to  
> get into BIOS seems to be to hold down escape during boot until the  
> laptop thinks it has a keyboard error. At that point, it'll prompt you  
> to hit F1 to enter BIOS (and it works).
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
>
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