[ltp] Black Border in console w/ 760xl

[Tom Grydeland]

On 19 Feb 2002, Jake Roersma wrote:

> I know I have seen this somewhere on the mailing list before, but just
> have never had the time to go at it.  How do I expland the console
> screen to the edges for the display.  I get this black border of about
> an inch all the wya around the screen..Any help would be great.

Two different answers, depending on what you want.

To enlarge the screen font to fill the screen, there is probably a
magic key combination.  On my 600E, it is Fn+F8.  Don't know what it
would be on yours

To have the console use all of your screen real estate, you need your
kernel to support frame buffer console.  Exactly what options to support
would depend.  I have this setup (which I will not guarantee will work
for you)

#
# Frame-buffer support
#
CONFIG_FB=y
CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
# CONFIG_FB_RIVA is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CLGEN is not set
# CONFIG_FB_PM2 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_CYBER2000 is not set
CONFIG_FB_VESA=y
# CONFIG_FB_VGA16 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_HGA is not set
CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y
# CONFIG_FB_MATROX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY is not set
# CONFIG_FB_RADEON is not set
# CONFIG_FB_ATY128 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_SIS is not set
# CONFIG_FB_3DFX is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1 is not set
# CONFIG_FB_VIRTUAL is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_ADVANCED=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_MFB is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB2 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_CFB4 is not set
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB8=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB16=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB24=y
CONFIG_FBCON_CFB32=y
# CONFIG_FBCON_AFB is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_ILBM is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P2 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P4 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_IPLAN2P8 is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_MAC is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_VGA_PLANES is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_VGA is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_HGA is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTWIDTH8_ONLY is not set
# CONFIG_FBCON_FONTS is not set
CONFIG_FONT_8x8=y
CONFIG_FONT_8x16=y


Your boot loader probably has to tell your kernel to use this option.
On my LILO setup, this is what I have:

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.16-tg1
    label  = linux2416
    root   = /dev/hda5
    vga    = 791

(the last line is the operative one.)

Good luck.

-- 
//Tom Grydeland <Tom.Grydeland@phys.uit.no>

	"you cannot perceive beauty but with a serene mind." -- H. D. Thoreau


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