Ctrl-Alt-F (?)

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2 total messages Started by Neal W. Miller Mon, 07 May 1990 23:35

#166

Author: Neal W. Miller
Date: Mon, 07 May 1990 23:35

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Here's a poser:

	On the Zenith-248 (at least, that's what I tried it on), I found
by sheer accident that Ctrl-Alt-F does very nasty things to the video mode
while text is on the screen.  Does anyone have any idea what the combination
of keys is actually doing?  The letter "F" brings several not-so-technical
phrases to mind, but I doubt that this was Zenith's intention.

                                                      

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Re: Ctrl-Alt-F (?)

#168

Author: Daniel Ake CAROSONE
Date: Wed, 09 May 1990 05:05

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In article <1990May7.233504.23622@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, millernw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Neal W. Miller) writes:
> 	On the Zenith-248 (at least, that's what I tried it on), I found
> by sheer accident that Ctrl-Alt-F does very nasty things to the video mode
> while text is on the screen.  Does anyone have any idea what the combination
> of keys is actually doing?  The letter "F" brings several not-so-technical
> phrases to mind, but I doubt that this was Zenith's intention.

Well, a little while ago we were discussing such things.
There are three such combinations that appear to do things to the screen.

On some machines ctl-atl-i throws the display into interlaced mode, on my
SupersPort it simply blanks the LCD (I haven't tried it with an external 
CRT)
ctl-atl-f and ctl-alt-n both return my LCD to normal operation, they appear
to do similar things on other Zeniths.

i = Interlaced, n = normal, f = ???

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