Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2001 15:28:31 +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: <20011007052831.89599.qmail@web12004.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <01100701190701.00638@i8k.babbleon.org>
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Hi again, You bet it would be... I did do that actually. When I tried Gnome it seemed to work fine. I then installed KDE for a look at the difference and after a reboot, the mode has defaulted again! I checked the X86config file and it was not changed! Hey I don't understand the spooky nature of this but I will keep looking into it. Any ideas??? Thanks Keith --- "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> wrote: > On Saturday 06 October 2001 23:47, Keith Spencer > wrote: > > > > > > 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 > > > Ah. Well, the better solution to that is to edit > your XF86Config file so > that it starts up in the correct video mode. Just > list the right one first. > > Otherwise you'd have to switch video modes every > time you start up, and that > would get darn tiresome. > > -- > 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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