On Sat, 5 Nov 2011 12:54:21 +1030, David Walker wrote:
>It's in good nick and IBM (Lenovo) still have all the docs and files on the
>web.
>The "ThinkPad 600 Suppliment to the User's Guide" (sic) is 221 pages ...
>That's the supplement. :]
>It's all english too.
>One of the PDFs has 63 pages of as
On 05/11/2011, David Riley wrote:
> whoever decided that the BIOS needed a "friendly" mouse-driven interface
> ought to be dragged out into the street and shot.
Agreed.
Mouse BIOS really grates but the little bird is too much.
They've hidden everything useful but included a very extensive test s
Hey.
Thanks everyone.
On 05/11/2011, Antti Harri wrote:
> If I understood your problem correctly the solution is to use the hotkey
> that
> stretches the screen to full size. Try FN+F8.
Thanks very much for that.
It's persistent between reboots which is great.
The font looks a little weird - its
On Friday 04 November 2011 09:40:57 David Walker wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I got my hands on a ThinkPad 600 and only about 50% of the screen is
> utilized on ttys in the middle.
> Can someone please tell me where to look for this, man page or whatever.
If I understood your problem correctly the solution is
On Nov 4, 2011, at 12:59 PM, Stefan Unterweger wrote:
> * David Walker on Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 07:20:43PM +1030:
>> This BIOS is ... sad.
>> It's mouse driven - the cursor is a bird that flaps its wings. :[
>
> Some people at IBM really had too much time at their hands...
Reminds me actually of t
* David Walker on Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 07:20:43PM +1030:
> This BIOS is ... sad.
> It's mouse driven - the cursor is a bird that flaps its wings. :[
Some people at IBM really had too much time at their hands...
> There is a video option but it only disables the external monitor - I
> tried it any
Hey.
So I'm looking at wscons stuff and I see this:
wsconsctl -a | grep wsdisplay.emulations
display.emulations=vt100
In ttys, all the terminals I use are vt220 - the default.
Does this make sense?
I've tried to change the screen type (e.g. 80x50) using wsconscfg and
I can't see anything that bu
Thanks guys.
This BIOS is ... sad.
It's mouse driven - the cursor is a bird that flaps its wings. :[
There is a video option but it only disables the external monitor - I
tried it anyway.
The BIOS video test takes up the whole screen (gives mode numbers and
resolutions) and the boot graphic does
there may be a bios option to stretch the image to fill the
display.
you could experiment with other display modes mentioned in
vga(4) but i suspect they won't fill the screen.
On 2011-11-04, David Walker wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I got my hands on a ThinkPad 600 and only about 50% of the screen is
> uti
On Fri, 4 Nov 2011 18:10:57 +1030, David Walker wrote:
>I got my hands on a ThinkPad 600 and only about 50% of the screen is
>utilized on ttys in the middle.
>Can someone please tell me where to look for this, man page or whatever.
>
IMBW but IIRC those guys had a BIOS setting to expand the text-
Hi.
I got my hands on a ThinkPad 600 and only about 50% of the screen is
utilized on ttys in the middle.
Can someone please tell me where to look for this, man page or whatever.
TIA
Best wishes.
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