[Wolves] Another reason why Linux struggles to become mainstream......?

Tim Childe tim.childe.lists at gmail.com
Mon Nov 28 10:57:56 GMT 2005


On 11/28/05, David Goodwin <dg at clocksoft.com> wrote:

I think Tim was actually referring to not being able to see the bottom
> part of the screen -


Yes I was, that was the second problem. I had (I guess) 40 rows on a 30 row
diplay - at least somewhere between 5 and 10 rows were off the bottom

in my experience (!?) the only way to fix that is
> to either : try 'fbset', fiddle with the monitor or reboot and pass a
> different vga= option to the kernel.
>
>
>
Again, not something you want to have to do when trying a new system for the
first time !!!



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Tim.C
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