Re: Thank you all

On Thu, Aug 22, 2002 at 01:04:25PM -0500, Dan Nelson wrote:
> In the last episode (Aug 22), Ross Lippert said:
> > For telling me how to get the funny ethernet card to get recognized. 
> > Modifying if_fxp.c did the trick like you suggested.  Working well.
> 
> Use the send-pr command to send a patch so this gets added to the
> official source tree.
>  
> > Now on to X.  I have noticed that the video card is coming up as a
> > none in pciconf -l with chip 88201023 which is a cyberblade xpai1 or
> > some such.  Is it bad for the kernel not to see this chip or is it
> > just up to X to find it?
> 
> This is fine.  All the kernel cares about is plain text mode.
>  
> > Secondly, when I boot just to the console, or run X I just get this
> > tiny screen about half the dimensions of the physical screen bordered
> > by black. It seems that this is something people have had happen on
> > toshiba's.  Anyhow I guess my question is
> 
> Most laptops do this, actually, since a standard VGA console is 640x400
> and no laptops are that resolution anymore :).  There's probably a
> hotkey to toggle "scale/noscale".  On Sony and Dell laptops, it's
> <Fn>+F.  The correct fix for X is to specify your laptop's native
> resolution in your XF86Config file.

I don't know for other toshiba laptop, but my Satellite 3000-100 display
the console at fullscreen.  It is also a BIOS setup.

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