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Andrew L. Gould wrote:

>On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote:
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>>Hi,
>>  I have just installed FreeBSD 4.10 - Release on my laptop Compaq
>>Presario 2132. Everything's working fine, but I have a couple of
>>doubts.
>>1. My console does'nt cover the entire screen of my laptop. It only
>>appears in a middle rectangular area of the screen. How do I fix this
>>to cover the entire screen??? Some people directed my to run the
>>'diagnostics check' in my BIOS. But my BIOS does not have diagnostic
>>checks. Is there another way?
>>    
>>
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>Another poster gave me this advice: try Fn-F7 (Function-F7).  It worked 
>nicely for my Dell Inspiron 8100.
>  
>

Thanks for your response.
Using Fn-F7 at boot ?

>>2. Whenever I boot into ACPI enabled mode, I can't configure my mouse
>>to work? Whats the reason for this? How can I work this, i.e. the
>>ACPI and the mouse together?
>>    
>>
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>I used to have FreeBSD 4.9 on a Compaq Presario 910US.  I had to disable 
>ACPI for anything to work.
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>  
>
>>Thanks,
>>Nikhil.
>>    
>>
>
>Best of luck,
>
>Andrew Gould
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