Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2004 16:27:52 -0500 From: "Andrew L. Gould" <algould@datawok.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: =?iso-8859-1?q?Fr=E9d=E9ric_Hardy?= <fc.h@wanadoo.fr> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop. Message-ID: <200406291627.52112.algould@datawok.com> In-Reply-To: <40E1DBBA.4030807@wanadoo.fr> References: <40E1DBBA.4030807@wanadoo.fr>
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On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Fr=E9d=E9ric Hardy wrote: > 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? Another poster gave me this advice: try Fn-F7 (Function-F7). It worked=20 nicely for my Dell Inspiron 8100. > > 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? I used to have FreeBSD 4.9 on a Compaq Presario 910US. I had to disable=20 ACPI for anything to work. > > Thanks, > Nikhil. Best of luck, Andrew Gould
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