Laptop Display size problem

[Parv]

in message <20060317020856.18bc9f19 at localhost>, wrote Norberto
Meijome thusly...
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:56:09 +0000 neil <neilcpp at blueyonder.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi, I am running freebsd 6 on a Fujitsu Siemens Laptop. At the
> > moment, I only want to use it in text mode. The problem I have
> > is that the text mode display seems to be framed into the centre
> > of the screen, wasting 2 inches plus horizontally and
> > vertically.
> 
> No idea if this is similar in your Fujitsu: most Toshiba laptops
> i've used have a BIOS setting (video zoom ? full screen? ) that
> makes the screen look like what you describe. I think it affects
> only text mode, but could be wrong.

Oh yeah, that reminds my Thinkpad T42 also has that "feature"
through BIOS.  Once i enabled it by mistake which caused some head
scratching.

  - Parv

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