From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 20 02:05:54 2005 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 B4A1216A41C for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:05:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pvdl@afu.com) Received: from afu.com (afu.com [130.94.178.21]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F7D843D1F for ; Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:05:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pvdl@afu.com) Received: (qmail 45378 invoked by uid 12821); 20 Jun 2005 02:05:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO [192.168.1.2]) ([66.245.42.239]) (envelope-sender ) by 130.94.178.21 (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 20 Jun 2005 02:05:53 -0000 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v622) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Peter van der Linden Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 19:05:41 -0700 X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.622) Subject: how to install on laptop? video issue? 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: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 02:05:54 -0000 I want to install FreeBSD 5.4 onto a partition on my 1 year old HP laptop. I've done a lot of Linux distro installs, and sometimes I need to give the installer a hint about the graphics card, typically something like: boot: linux vga=771 When I try the FreeBSD installer, the screen goes blank about 5 seconds after it starts booting from the CD, typically at the point where it switches to X Window in a Linux install. Is there a similar hint I can give FreeBSD about the type of graphics to use? What are the syntax and choices? I have googled for this without success. Thanks, Peter