SCO Openserver on old dell

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tom fugate wrote:
> I have an older (266Meg Pentium) dell laptop. We use SCO Openserver
> on some of our clients computers. I was putting the OS on the old
> laptop and the display is only in the center protion of the screen.
> anyone know how to use the entire screen? if the HD is taken out and
> hooked to a standard pc the display is on the full screen.
> Thanks for any help.

The default screen resolution, set by the BIOS, is 640x480 and is sized
to provide the best view as dictated by the pixel-based design of the
LCD screen. This is normal in the absence of a video driver that will
fill the screen at the design maximum resolution of say 1024x768. There
might be a setting in BIOS setup for screen expansion that will force
full-screen 640x480 resolution but the resulting expanded view will not
be as sharp and well-defined as the reduced view. If Open Server is a
*nix based OS, then there might be an LCD driver that will restore the
original design resolution. ["SCO" and "open"-anything are mutually
inconsistent?]

Desktop CRT displays are not bound to the fixed pixel design of LCDs so
that they will look fine at all of their supported resolutions.

Q