> 
> > From the mailing list archive I can see I'm not alone with the display
> problems. I suppose there aren't enough of us without 17" monitors to
> provide enough incentive to get it to work at 800x600 :-(.
> 
> The main problem is that characters are corrupted at 800x600x256. At
> first glance it looks like the bitmap of each line of each character is
> rotated, but looking at it in colour in X, it looks a bit like the
> effect I've seen when something attempts to plot at the wrong pixel
> depth.
> 
> The other major problem is that the MDF compiled into the kernel seems
> to be very basic, and AFAICT you can't change mode usefully in the
> shell. setdisplay has some effect, but not the desired one until you
> start X. I did manage to get X going at 800x600x32K which is probably

Its cuz setdisplay sends the ioctl to the wrong device.  It should be

setdisplay -d /dev/tty

to send it to the current tty or ttyv<n> to change a specific one.

If you do that then the mode will be changed for that terminal.  There
used to be a -a switch to change all of them but it seems to have been
omitted in later versions.

> what I'll use in future, but it makes the shell all letterboxed.
> 
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