Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop

[Bomgardner,Jon]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Peter Risdon [mailto:peter at circlesquared.com]
> Sent: Monday, December 13, 2004 11:08 AM
> To: Bomgardner,Jon
> Cc: Henry Miller; freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Screen usage... was: Xorg/laptop
> 

<snip>

> >
> > OK, so I found a BIOS option that enabled me to "stretch"
> > the screen however, it is still not using ALL of the possible screen
> > space and Xorg still starts in the small window... Almost there... I
can
> > just taste it....
> >
> > anyone got any other ideas?
> 
> What resolution are you using? Laptops take this pretty literally,
> generally. If your laptop has a resolution of, say, 1280x1024 and
you're
> using 800x600, then you'll often get a display 800x600 in the middle
of
> the available screen area.
> 
> Peter.
> 

So, I was reading man pages for the last few hours and here's what I
found out:

- vidcontrol sets terminal video settings - however, any setting I've
used doesn't do what I want. Also found that my hardware would possibly
support VESA but I need to rebuild my kernel to get that to work (might
try this later... I haven't done it before so am kinda outa depth
here... but I think this is the option I seek...)

Can anyone tell me if I'm at least on the right track before I go about
trying to rebuild my Kernel?

Other than that I've just been learning a lot of nifty features like
changing the number of rows on the display, changing colors, how to set
up a splash screen, etc...  Fun times!

Thanks,
Jon

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