On Thursday, October 21, 2004 06:23 am, Ajitabh Pandey wrote:
> The problem is I can't go into the BIOS setting, there
> is no option for that while system boots up.

try pressing <F1>, <F2> or <DEL> a few times immediately after power up.

>
> I have configured X and that works fine.
>
> But one point which I am wondering upon is that -
> (1.) if this 'stretched display' is a BIOS property
> then why is it not enabled by default?

Many times it is. Personally, I'd perfer to have pixels displayed 1:1.

> and
> (2.) How does Knoppix /SUSE live CDs display full
> screen texts, immediately after booting system (right
> from the 'boot: ' prompt)?

(speaking only to my knowledge of knoppix)
ISOLINUX is configured to immediately do things using a basic text/graphics 
mode. The kernel is configured to use the video card as a framebuffer 
[bitmapped pictures] rather than the primitive VGA text mode (if you want to 
know more about this look for a VGA programing tutorial from the early to mid 
90s). To my knowledge NetBSD's wscons (at least on port i386) uses the text 
mode of the card.

	Jonathan Kollasch