Date: Sat, 6 Oct 2001 23:11:41 -0400 From: Brian T.Schellenberger <bts@babbleon.org> To: Keith Spencer <bsd2000au@yahoo.com.au>, fbsd <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Anyone managed to install FreeBSD on a laptop? Message-ID: <01100623114100.00638@i8k.babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <20011007020713.61485.qmail@web12007.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20011007020713.61485.qmail@web12007.mail.yahoo.com>
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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. 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 . . .. 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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