From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   John Forkosh  writes:   
      
   > Jimmy Johnson  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 05/01/2023 11:35 PM, Mike Spencer wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> 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   
      
   Tnx for replies but you snipped the part where I report at all is well   
   with the X display itself.   
      
   >>> I obviously don't know what I'm doing with stty. Any suggestions?   
      
   It's the virtual consoles to which you can switch with CTRL-ALT-Fn   
   that remain a problem.  The X display appears correct after using   
   xrandr to force the 5:4 res but the consoles have two top lines of   
   snow/bits/garbage behind which the top two lines of text are unreadable.   
      
   AFAIK, nothing in xrandr controls how text consoles are rendered.   
      
   [ suggestions about X snipped ]   
      
   These suggestions are aout getting the res right for X.  I have that   
   already.   I'm trying to get the mode right for consoles.   
      
   stty(1) doesn't work.  AIUI, the consoles are managed via framebuffer   
   but "fbset 1280x1024" evokes "ioctl FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO: Invalid   
   argument".  Yes, there is a suitable entry in /etc/fb.modes and I've   
   tweaked it in various ways based on suggestions from the web to no   
   avail.   
      
   Doesn't matter whether 1280x1024 is in effect for X or not; the   
   console still gets it wrong.   
      
   So I don't know what I'm doing with fbset, either.  tty(1) says a   
   console is /dev/tty2 but fbset doen't think that's an fb device.  Lots   
   of hits on the web on that error message with no useful resolution.   
      
   So I'm still stuck: X okay, console doesn't get it right.   
      
   (I did say that this is a 14.2 box in the original post.)   
      
      
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   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
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