Thanks for the tip, I'll look for it in the BIOS. I
would be just fine with the current 80x25 if that is
the best (highest number of rows) that I can hope for.
Although the 80x50 might look good if I do have that
BIOS setting that I can change.

Now that Peter helped me out getting the color to
work, things are looking nice in wyrd and other
ncurses programs.

Thanks for giving me a heads up about the slow nature
of the frame buffer setting. I would imagine it would
be even slower on this old laptop with serious memory
limitations.

Steve
mowestusa@yahoo.com

--- Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4@gmail.com> wrote:

> ....
> > I guess I will have to live with 80x25 and an 1.5"
> of
> > blank space on the top and on the bottom.
> 
> This is usually a BIOS setting - something like
> "Expand Console" or similar.
> 
> I've had it on a few of my old laptops - all HP
> OmniBooks. If all you
> want is to run in
> 80x25 full screen, this should be enough.
> 
> >  Right now
> > I'm using NetBSD 3.1 on this old laptop, and I
> will
> > probably wait to use NetBSD 4.0 until it becomes
> the
> > stable production ready branch. After I do a 4.0
> > install I will look into recompiling the kernel to
> > enable framebuffer.
> 
> It's quite slow with fb, though - especially
> scrolling - on high settings.
> ...
> >
> 
> Chavdar Ivanov
> 


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