[Trlog] TR on laptops ?

[George & Tammy Perkins]

In "pure" dos mode, (i.e. not under windows) the full screen display
problem is often related to the resolution of the actual LCD panel
itself.  The LCD panel might be 1024x768 for example, but DOS 
is only diplaying 640x480.  This leaves  you a big black border
around the edges of the screen.  On some laptops, I have seen
a setting in the BIOS setup screen that allows you to do
resolution scaling, i.e. the 640x480 display will be "stretched"
to take up the actual, higher, native resolution of the actual
LCD panel.  Look in the BIOS settings to see if your laptop
has such a setting.

When running a DOS box under windows, I have not experienced
this because windows usually knows how to stretch the display
to occupy full screen.  

Not all BIOS's have this setting, but it's a start to check there...

Good luck,
George
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Erickson" <va7nt at telus.net>
To: "TRlog reflector" <trlog at contesting.com>
Sent: Saturday, June 12, 2004 1:35 PM
Subject: [Trlog] TR on laptops ?


> I am configuring some laptops for an upcoming expedition, and am having 
> a bit of trouble figuring out how to get them to display full screen in 
> dos mode. With some of them, toggling text mode does it, but for some 
> reason with a couple of Toshiba 110cs machines, that doesn't seem to do 
> it. I am currently running dos 6.22 on them. On another toshiba 100cs 
> running win 95 (in dos mode of course) I am able to get full screen. But 
> on the 110cs's there is an 1" of space at the top and bottom of the 
> screen, when TR is started.
> 
> Any thoughts would be appreciated.
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> cheers, Paul - VA7NT - email: va7nt at telus.net
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