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From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: Re: Anyone managed to install FreeBSD on a laptop?
To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>,
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Hi Brian thanks....
 --- "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>
wrote: > 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.
OK I'll do that...
> 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 . . ..
Well yes there is, because X picks the first config
that works and that is 620x400 at 8 bits...it looks
crap! The laptop screen looks best (Toshiba 2510cds
Satellite) at 800x600 24 bit
Thanks though
Keith
> 
> 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
> :-)
> 
> 
> 
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