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> I have the same problem on my 100MHz Satellite 420CDT (and I think on two 
> other Toshiba Satellite CDSs).  Chips & Tech video.  Hitachi lets you 
> 'stretch' the text in DOS with the same video.

On some earlier Toshibas the screen could be stretched in text
mode with a little program called "Ultra" but I couldnt get that
to work with the Satellites.

> Instead of vga=3845 try vga=ask.  Press return to get a list of 7 modes. 
> #4 is the one you get with 3845 (30 lines).  Read about svgatextmode.
> You can get 25 28 30 43 50 60 lines.
> 
> 34 is not bad.  60 is hard to read.

Thanks for the suggestion, tried this but only #4 was any good. Some
made the screen even narrower. This with the anonymous VMLINUZ kernel.

> You can also boot vga=785 or 788 with the 'big' kernel to get nice looking 
> text using framebuffer mode, if your video is VESA 2.0 compliant.  My 
> Pentiums 100MHz or faster are VESA 2.0.  785= 640x480, 788 = 800x600 (all 
> my pentiums can do that).  800x600 gives more columns too (100?).
> Read about VESA framebuffer video.

Will try when I get the big kernel in place. Thanks Sindi.

> I will attempt to compile a smaller framebuffer/vgaselect kernel for 
> 2.2.26 (or 2.2.27) and put together a 2-floppy BL with it following 
> Steven's instructions.

See how it goes.

-- 
Bye now,
        Ian.