Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 23:41:48 -0400 From: "jason" <kib@mediaone.net> To: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, "Keith Spencer" <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au>, "fbsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anyone managed to install FreeBSD on a laptop? Message-ID: <006f01c14ee1$fe96fa40$05d85c42@speakeasy.net> References: <20011007020713.61485.qmail@web12007.mail.yahoo.com> <01100623114100.00638@i8k.babbleon.org>
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I don't know much about X. I assume you need the + - found on the normal 101 keyboards in the number pad. On just about every laptop I have ever seen the number pad is actually a set of keys on the right side of the keyboard. In order to access them you must hit the num-lock key though. I don't have a laptop with me right now but generally here are the locations of the numpad from memory Keys with Numlock off 7 8 9 0 U I O P J K L ; M , . / Same keys with Numlock on 7 8 9 / 4 5 6 * 1 2 3 - 0 , . + but this is my laptop right here. Yours may vary. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian T.Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Keith Spencer" <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au>; "fbsd" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2001 11:11 PM Subject: Re: Anyone managed to install FreeBSD on a laptop? > On Saturday 06 October 2001 22:07, Keith Spencer wrote: > > Hi all, > > I have! It was remarkably simple but...... > > Laptops don't have keypads! So how the hell do I > > switch video modes without a + and - keypad key! > > ie. <ctrl><+> I think it is and a shift does NOT work > > here! > > Any smart people help me out??? > > Check the documentation that came with your laptop. > > Any laptop should be capable of emulating keypad keys; X is not unique in > sometimes requiring them. Typically there's some key that switches modes so > taht a section of the keyboard is interpretted as the keypad. See if your K > key, say, has a blue "2" on it. That would be a clue. > > That said, switching video modes on a laptop is a ridiculous exercise; unlike > a CRT, an LCD display has fixed pixel positions, and lower resolution modes > are either simulated with resampling (looks awful) or by just darkening the > output pixels (shrinks the display). So there's little poin . . .. > > > PS: My first FreeBSD laptop was over five years ago. Unfortunately, my > *next* laptop had hardware then unsupported by FreeBSD, so I was using Linux > for a long time in between, but it's good to be back :-) > > > > > > > http://travel.yahoo.com.au - Yahoo! Travel > > - Got Itchy feet? Get inspired! > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Brian T. Schellenberger . . . . . . . bts@wnt.sas.com (work) > Brian, the man from Babble-On . . . . bts@babbleon.org (personal) > http://www.babbleon.org > > -------> Free Dmitry Sklyarov! (let him go home) <----------- > > http://www.eff.org http://www.programming-freedom.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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