On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 10:31:39AM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Ed Sutherland:
> > Any PPC users lurking about here? I just finished tinkering with
> > OpenDarwin, but think I'm returning to the Debian nest. A question, though:
> >
> > I'll be using the PPC version of Sarge. But text in the console (not
> > text in X) is clipped on the left edge of the screen. ("Linux is printed
> > "inux" on my iMac monitor.) This clipping doesn't happen in OpenDarwin,
>
> I believe I saw someone mention this on debian-powerpc a few days
> ago. It was only at the console and disappeared in X.
>
I am using woody so it may be different, but I am not seeing that. I am
using framebuffer, so that could make the differnce.
It does sound like either a resolution issue, since different
resolutions usually make the image appear at an different places on crt
screens (try playing with the monitor settings), or a mode issue
(which is the same thing).
I would say that you need to either play with the video mode or use a
frame buffer.
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