Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 01:30:10 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Peter van der Linden" <pvdl@afu.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: how to install on laptop? video issue? Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNOEMAFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <f6e8f339953fe43f1f90abf7899bdaed@afu.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Peter van der >Linden >Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 7:06 PM >To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >Subject: how to install on laptop? video issue? > > >I want to install FreeBSD 5.4 onto a partition on my 1 year old HP >laptop. > >I've done a lot of Linux distro installs, and sometimes I need to give >the installer a hint about the graphics card, >typically something like: > >boot: linux vga=771 > >When I try the FreeBSD installer, the screen goes blank about 5 seconds >after it starts booting from the CD, typically at the point where it >switches to X Window in a Linux install. > The FreeBSD 5.4 installer does not switch to a graphical X windows screen during the installation precisely to prevent the sort of problem that Linux distros have with hardware like yours. What most likely happened is that something in the FreeBSD kernel probe tickled some hardware in the laptop and made the system either freeze up, or switch off the LCD screen. You might try it with a monitor plugged into the video port and see what happens - also try the keypress sequence on your laptop that switches the video between screen and external port just to see if the screen comes back. Make sure your running the latest BIOS update for your laptop, you can download that from HP. Also see if there is an option to turn ACPI off in your BIOS and try installing with it off. You might have to turn it off at the boot loader with the command unset acpi_load This is discussed here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/laptop/article.html Ted
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