Re: [Siglinux] Framebuffers and refresh rates

2002-04-03 Thread Paul Sack
Yesterday at 11:26pm, Wei-shi Tsai expounded: ++ I have a flat screen monitor. Unfortunately, in text mode the ++ characters become extremely distorted. Therefore, I've been running ++ Linux using framebuffer consoles. The characters in text mode are distorted since the text mode is 640x480 (I

[Siglinux] Framebuffers and refresh rates

2002-04-03 Thread Wei-shi Tsai
Here is my problem: I have a flat screen monitor. Unfortunately, in text mode the characters become extremely distorted. Therefore, I've been running Linux using framebuffer consoles. However, I checked the refresh rate one time when I did a switch from X to one of the framebuffer consoles.

[Siglinux] anyone have a 2.5" hard drive adapter

2002-04-03 Thread Patrick Lang
Does anyone happen to have one of those adapters to hook up a laptop hard drive to a regular PC? I'm trying to resurrect a laptop with a dead cdrom. Linux net install is out of the question because they need windows on it :( Thanks, Patrick ___ Sig