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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news.eecs.umich.edu!life.eecs.umich.edu!not-for-mail From: pmchen@life.eecs.umich.edu (Peter M. Chen) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: 1024x768 works for Thinkpad; internal modem Date: 18 Apr 1997 19:23:41 GMT Organization: University of Michigan EECS Lines: 18 Message-ID: <5j8hnt$4ft$1@news.eecs.umich.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: life.eecs.umich.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950824BETA PL0] Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:39289 I just got an IBM Thinkpad 760E. I struggled for a while to get X to display on the full 1024x768 screen, but finally succeeded by modifying a program written for Linux. In case anybody wants this, see http://www.eecs.umich.edu/~pmchen/thinkpad I have been unable to use the internal modem. Apparently IBM uses a special DSP chip set (MWave) that handles a lot of functions, including imitating a modem. Does anyone know if there's a driver for this under FreeBSD (or Linux)? Also, quitting X leaves the console screen fonts really messed up. Running "vidcontrol VGA_80x25" helps, but it still doesn't print many characters. Anybody know how to fix this? In Linux, the apparent solution is to run a program called "setfont", but I haven't found this program for FreeBSD (and it wasn't trivial to compile the Linux source for FreeBSD. I haven't tried Linux emulation for setfont). Pete