Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 13:47:02 +1000 (EST) From: =?iso-8859-1?q?Keith=20Spencer?= <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au> To: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org>, fbsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anyone managed to install FreeBSD on a laptop? Message-ID: <20011007034702.62879.qmail@web12001.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <01100623114100.00638@i8k.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 > :-) > > > > > > > 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 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
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