Full Screen display in character mode.

[Dick Schroeder]

>In NT4 run the ThinkPad Configuration app, select Display icon, then
>select Advanced... button, and there in that dialog you will find an
>item called "Screen expansion." Interestingly, however, on my machine
>it is set to disable, but when I boot Linux I get a full screen text
>mode display! I have 770X, 1280x1024 LCD.

Fortunately, I do not have NT4. And, you have the 1280x1024, while I
have the 14.1 screen with half the pixel count. I don't know if this
makes any difference (as far as this problem is concerned), but my
model ships standard with '98. I am running Linux on a separate disk
right now, mostly out of fear because of the potential geometry problems
with the 14.1 disk. (Funny, 14.1" screen, 14.1 GB disk!)

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Soderling [mailto:pete@lighthousecs.com]
Sent: Monday, 28 June 1999 14:24
To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Subject: Re: Full Screen display in character mode.


>This is an interesting discussion . . . my 770X has always sported the
>'crappy-small-center-of-the-screen' look in text mode . . . I haven't been
>able to figure out yet how to use full-screen mode outside of X.

Yup, this is a real problem as we use laptops for demos, and the little
window just doesn't get it. My last two laptops (grossly inferior to the
Thinkpad) were a HP Omnibook 5700 and a TI Travelmate, and I did not have
this problem with either one of them!

> Under Win95 there's a setting for the display/
> advanced options for something like "screen expansion."
> I use this so games in lower resolutions fill the
> screen.  Perhaps linux has inherited this somehow
> through the BIOS.

? How would that work? Other than the power-on with the F1 key getting
you some bios settings, I can't figure out how to go into a "real" bios
setup like you can on other 'puters. What am I missing here?

>I can't find any option like this in NT4. I don't now if there is anything
>that can be changed manually in the BIOS config or not.

--petesoder

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-----Original Message-----
From: Dick Schroeder <dick@addpower.com>
To: linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com <linux-thinkpad@bm-soft.com>
Date: Monday, June 28, 1999 4:35 PM
Subject: Full Screen display in character mode.


>
>
>I am new to this list, but I perused the archives and although there is
>plenty of information
>on getting the full screen to work under X-windows, I can' seem to find
>anything about
>how to configure full screen for character based (terminfo driven)
display.
>
>I have a 770Z - 14.1" unit.
>
>Can anyone help me?
>
>TIA
>
>Richard Schroeder
>
>
>