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From: pmchen@life.eecs.umich.edu (Peter M. Chen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 1024x768 works for Thinkpad; internal modem
Date: 25 Apr 1997 02:28:05 GMT
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>Maybe it would help to (re-)load a font with vidcontrol, e.g.
>vidcontrol -f 8x16 /usr/share/syscons/fonts/cp850-8x16.fnt
>(there are other fonts in this directory, for different resolutions, etc.)
>or to load a screenmap with vidcontrol -l /usr/share/syscons/scnmaps/...

Thanks for the suggestion, but no luck.  Anyone else out there that
has this problem of X messing up the fonts for IBM Thinkpads (mine is
a 1024x768 IBM Thinkpad 760E)?

Pete