From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   Finally dumped my big 19" 4:3 CRT monitors.  Happy with a new 24" 16:9   
   for the new(er) Slack 15.0 box.  Now have the old 14.2 Pentium 4 on a   
   nice used HP L1950 monitor I was given.  It defaults to using 1024x768   
   where text is big enough for old eyes but it's a 5:4 monitor and images   
   are distorted.  Thanks to pointers here on a.o.l.s to xrandr, this   
      
   bogus% cvt -v 1280 1024   
      
         Modeline "1280x1024_60.00"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712  1024 1027 \   
         1034 1063 -hsync +vsync   
      
   bogus% xrandr --newmode "1280x1024_60.00"  109.00  1280 1368 1496 1712 \   
          1024  1027  1034 1063 -hsync +vsync   
      
   bogus% xrandr --addmode VGA1        1280x1024_60.00   
   bogus% xrandr --output  VGA1 --mode 1280x1024_60.00   
      
   fixes X when it matters.  At the cost of smaller text, round things   
   aren't egg-shaped. All good with X.   
      
      
   But the console is still a problem.  Two lines of text at the top of   
   the screen are random bits and text on those lines is invisible   
   although the software -- emacs, less etc. -- thinks it's using them.   
   Is there away to convince the system to render the two lines of text   
   that are "there" but not rendered?   
      
   bogus% stty -a                    rows 24   
      
   bogus% stty rows 26               'standard input': Invalid argument   
      
   bogus% tty   
          /dev/tty2   
      
   bogus% stty -F /dev/tty2 rows 26    /dev/tty2: Invalid argument   
      
      
   I obviously don'tknow what I'm doing with stty.  Any suggestions?   
      
      
      
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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