From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 26 16:12:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E77216A420 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:12:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wbs@infowest.com) Received: from tozar.infowest.com (tozar.out.smtp.infowest.com [204.17.177.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A79D543D46 for ; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:12:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from wbs@infowest.com) Received: from alora.infowest.com (alora.client.smtp.infowest.com [204.17.177.61]) by tozar.infowest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B9D48245031; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:12:39 -0700 (MST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (209-33-199-253-dsl.infowest.net [209.33.199.253]) by alora.infowest.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 849EF1E304B; Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:12:39 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <43D8F4E0.7000009@infowest.com> Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 09:12:16 -0700 From: Lorin Lund User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: f.gibbs@comcast.net References: <012620061346.28298.43D8D2B50006EF4100006E8A22007348309C0D0D0709D200@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <012620061346.28298.43D8D2B50006EF4100006E8A22007348309C0D0D0709D200@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Compaq Pressario 700 (laptop): X totally unconfigurable X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2006 16:12:41 -0000 f.gibbs@comcast.net wrote: >Hello, > >I just received FreeBSD 6.0. It installed flawlessly on a Compaq Pressario 700 Athlonbased laptop until I rebooted and saw that the viewable portion of the screen was in the upper left quarter of the screen. The resolution appears to be set alright based on the icon size in KDE (which works well), it's just the viewable portion of the desktop. As a visual: if you divided your screen now into quarters and got rid of all the right side and lower left corner, what you have left is what I see: makes viewing a mess. > >The pcmcia card works fine - no connection problems, just this viewable screen issue. I tried to go into XF86config, but was spit back to the shell prompt: I can't go any further. I have installed more than five times trying to change this, but it doesn't allow me access to the config file. Other than continuing to play with installations, are there any methods you suggest I use to access the config file? > >Caveat: I have RTFM, docs, mans, etc...., but I haven't seen this problem documented anywhere. I am Linux convert and am familiar with much of this, however I wonder if it isn't a matter of semantics when I was searching information - I have no idea. > >Any assistance is greatly appreciated. > >/fred >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > Configuring X for notebook PCs is a puzzle. I just installed on a Toshiba Satelite Pro. The default configuration listed the wrong driver. Once I found out the right driver all I had to do was to add the extra resolutions to the config file. You mentioned Xfree86. So it sounds like you aren't going with Xorg. I would think it makes little difference at this point. They are still quite similar. I have mine set up as dual boot with Windows XP. That gave me info about the "video card" and the available resolutions. Even after you get the video resolved you may have some work to get the keyboard to not give occasional repeated keystroks (seems to be related to key-up event).