Re: [gentoo-user] console size/display anomaly

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 8:23 AM Walter Dnes wrote: > On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 09:54:04AM -0400, John Blinka wrote > > > Any ideas? > > The 1940's called... they want their overscan back. Walter, Thanks so much! That explanation would account for what I’m seeing. A quick tour of the tv’s

Re: [gentoo-user] console size/display anomaly

On Wed, Oct 28, 2020 at 09:54:04AM -0400, John Blinka wrote > Any ideas? The 1940's called... they want their overscan back. It sounds like your TV set has "overscan", a relic of the 1940's. I have a 13-year old plasma digital, and get the same effect. Back in the 1940's, and up until the

[gentoo-user] console size/display anomaly

Hi, everyone, One of my gentoo boxes is mostly used headless, but now and then I connect it to a display - a nearby large screen tv. When I use the tv as a console, the tv screen does not display the first few lines of text that would normally appear, nor the last few, nor the leftmost few