Re: laptop only using part of screen on console?

From: jpd (read_the_sig_at_do.not.spam.it)
Date: 03/16/04 

Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 22:16:25 +0000 (UTC)

In article <c37od2$s1q$1@f04n12.cac.psu.edu>, Dr. Richard E. Hawkins wrote:
>
> In console mode, my laptop, a thinkpad a21p, is only using part of the
> screen (in the middle)< having gone into a hires mode. This survives
> powerdown.
>
> I know that I've seen this in the distant past, but I just can't
> remember the remedy.

It's an IBM BIOS feature, `stretch' I think it's called, but I'm too
lazy to check. My 570 also allows me to activate it with fn-f8. 

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