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  • Subject: Re: [BL] Toshiba laptop screen prob
  • Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:53:04 +0000 (UTC)

Vmode works nicely in DOS but when you boot to BL you are back to the
original size/shape text.

Another method that takes less experimentation with modes:

mode con lines=43, 25 or 50 changes number of text lines

Also does not persist in linux.

On my Toshiba Satellite 350CDS (100MHz) I disabled stretched text in BIOS and typed mode con lines=43 and it filled the screen with 43 lines of text. 50 lines leaves an inch empty top and bottom like 25 lines.
I put this line into autoexec.bat. It looks no worse than stretched text and the same as what you get with vga=ask, followed by 2, in linux.

Unstretched 25 lines looks better (as does framebuffer text in linux, or VESA text modes without cursor from vmode).

Can you find a way to add a cursor to VESA text modes (graphical) in DOS?

Sindi




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