From: "Beginner" <dermot@sciencephoto.com>
To: linux-admin@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: console screen display problem
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 12:27:43 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E106BF.8465.84C2BE72@dermot.sciencephoto.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47D6F469.4030104@agitate.org.uk>
I dismissed this idea at first sight. After hammering all the buttons
I could to get into the BIOS, I saw this setting and presto, it
works. Thanx Adam.
On 11 Mar 2008 at 21:06, Adam T. Bowen wrote:
> Dermot Paikkos wrote:
> > I have installed CentOS on an old Toshiba laptop but the console is
> > not using all the available screen. There is a black border all the
> > way round the console or X screen. How do you configure the console
> > size? I did some tests with resizecon but that just changes the
> > character spacing it did nothing to the display window.
>
> That option may only be available in your BIOS settings. On my old HP
> laptop the option is called "Video Expansion", and when it is enabled it
> stretches lower resolutions to fit the whole screen.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-19 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-11 13:22 console screen display problem Dermot Paikkos
2008-03-11 21:06 ` Adam T. Bowen
2008-03-19 12:27 ` Beginner [this message]
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