laptop freebsd display not filling whole screen

Dave dave at g8kbv.demon.co.uk
Thu Feb 16 11:24:37 UTC 2012


On 15 Feb 2012 at 17:25, Fbsd8 wrote:

> I installed 9.0 on a Toshiba laptop. The Freebsd console only fills a
> small box in the center of the screen. I found nothing in the handbook
> about this so I am asking here.
> 
> How do I get the console to fill to whole laptop screen?
> 
> 

Many Toshiba laptops have a feature in the BIOS (Stretch or Expand) so 
that a 640x480 text screen (for example) will fill the full disaply, 
whatever the physical pixel resolution is.   Looks weird, but it does 
what it says.

Regards.

Dave B.



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