[ltp] Fullscreen mode in games

[Yoni Levy]

Charles E. "Rick" Taylor, IV wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 17:13 +0300, Yoni Levy wrote:
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>>Again I'll note that my model is r50e.
>>The Fn-8 key doesn't seem to have any functionality (there isn't anything in blue on the key),
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>Just in case you missed it - that would be Fn-*F8*, not Fn-8.  It's not
>always marked as doing something either - even on some Thinkpads where
>it DOES work.
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Sorry for the typo, I meant Fn-F8.

>>I don't think I need to change stuff in the bios settings, since it used to work before i re-installed my operating system ...
>>Any other ideas ? maybe there's some software i need to install ?
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>Can't hurt to check, though.  My wife's X20 will sometimes "helpfully"
>reset the display settings in the BIOS if she boots it while plugged
>into a monitor.
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>Another thing to check  - when you switch to a console, does your
>console fill the screen, or does it look like your "fullscreen" games?
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Console fills the entire screen as it should.
I'll try the BIOS settings, if anyone has any more advices I'd be glad to try them ...

Thanks again