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On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Fr=E9d=E9ric Hardy wrote:
> Hi,
>   I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq
> Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a couple of
> doubts.
> 1. My console does'nt cover the entire screen of my laptop. It only
> appears in a middle rectangular area of the screen. How do I fix this
> to cover the entire screen??? Some people directed my to run the
> 'diagnostics check' in my BIOS. But my BIOS does not have diagnostic
> checks. Is there another way?

Another poster gave me this advice: try Fn-F7 (Function-F7).  It worked=20
nicely for my Dell Inspiron 8100.
>
> 2. Whenever I boot into ACPI enabled mode, I can't configure my mouse
> to work? Whats the reason for this? How can I work this, i.e. the
> ACPI and the mouse together?

I used to have FreeBSD 4.9 on a Compaq Presario 910US.  I had to disable=20
ACPI for anything to work.

>
> Thanks,
> Nikhil.

Best of luck,

Andrew Gould