booting without black border [SOLVED]

Jochen Kächelin gissmoh at gmx.de
Tue Jul 19 19:12:54 UTC 2005


Am Dienstag, 19. Juli 2005 19:43 schrieb Jim Richardson:
> On Tue, 2005-07-19 at 09:56 +0200, Jochen Kächelin wrote:
> > how can I use the whole screen in console mode (without
> > the black border) and during booting?
> >
> > I run hoary with 2.6.12 kernel and grub (I need zd1211).
>
> On my Dell laptop, this is a hardware issue, and toggling the
> fn->font key toggles it. You may have a setting in the bios which
> will help.

I added vga=791 to menue.lst to get a 1024x768 screen with NO black 
border.

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Jochen Kächelin | gissmoh.de




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