Keyboard not working except "Enter" Key and getting monochrome color with Vmware on HP Pavillio dv6000 series notebook

[ajay gopalakrishnan]

Hi,

I'm trying to install FreeBSD on Vmware on windows XP Media Center Edition
on my notebook HP Pavillion dv6000 series. The installation is proper.
Everything gets installed perfectly.

KDE starts also but the resolution is not OK. I'm not getting a colored
output for KDE. everything is black and white. Keyboard does not work except
the "Enter" Key. Mouse Works properly.

I have a NVidia GForce Go 7400 Graphics card with 256MB memory. My settings
on Windows XP currently are 1280x800 and color quality is highest 32bit and
refresh rate is 60Hz.

I had ran xorgconfig and xorgcfg. But, here i am not able to find any
keyboard looks like the layout of my notebook keyboard layout. The closest
match would be the Winbook and the IBM Thinkpad series. I had selected the
color to highest possible value 24bit (16 million colors). I dont know the
HSync and VSync values of my notebook since the manual of the notebook
doesnt have these values.

I had performed the same installation procedures on my desktop machine which
is a DELL Optiplex. It is working perfectly there. So i think that my
xorgconfig is wrong.

Thanks in advance,
Ajay.

On 3/4/07, Roger Olofsson <raggen at passagen.se> wrote:
>
>
>
> ajay gopalakrishnan skrev:
> > Hi Greg,
> >
> > I am facing with some issues in getting FreeBSD installed on my machine.
> > I am using Vmware workstation version 5. I am using an evaluation
> > version of
> > it.
> > I downloaded the FreeBSD Release 6.2 from freebsd.org.
> > I downloaded all the 3 ISO images. cd1 , cd2 and docs .
> > I did not write these images on the CD but i mounted them directly on
> > the CD
> > drive of Vmware.
> >
> > I had selected OS Type as  Other/FreeBSD at the time of installation.
> > My basic installation got over properly and smoothly without any pains.
> > But, i faced an error when i selected some packages for installation and
> > kde
> > from the packages list. It said 'Could not load package libiconv-1.9.2_2
> > and
> > gettext... etc'. What could be the issue here?
> >
> > Also what mode should i select when installing the network adapter.
> Which
> > one should i select. lance/Slip/ppp ? I am using DSL cable internet
> modem
> > internet connection and the modem is connected to my computer using an
> > ethernet.
> >
>
> I set the nics to bridge when I ran this way.
>
> > Further, after installation how should i ensure that all the required
> > kernel
> > sources are installed?
> >
>
> This is only necessary if you want to build a kernel of your own. If you
> are satisfied with the kernel shipped with the cds (called GENERIC)
> there is no need. The handbook at www.freebsd.org is a very good
> starting point and answers many questions.
>
>
> > Is there any way by which i can install a specific package from from CD
> and
> > let the OS determine and install all the dependencies automatically? Is
> > there any command for this like we have apt-get in debian?
> >
>
> Yes, this is done automagically when you either add the binary package
> or when you do make install clean in the source code for it. Again, the
> handbook answers all this.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Ajay.
> >
> > On 3/2/07, Greg Larkin <glarkin at sourcehosting.net> wrote:
> >>
> >> >
> >> > Hey all,
> >> >
> >> > Are there any known issues for installing FreeBSD on Vmware
> >> > on windows XP ?
> >> > I have never tried installiing FreeBSD earlier and i just saw
> >> > a mail in this
> >> > mailing list regarding some problems while installing on
> >> > vmware. Could not
> >> > make out much. Can someone just elaborate on the issues faced while
> >> > installing on Vmware.
> >> >
> >> > Regards,
> >> > ajay.
> >>
> >> Hi Ajay,
> >>
> >> I wrote in to the list a little while back about VMware installation
> >> problems that I had with FreeBSD 6.2, but the issue was completely
> >> related to the CPU architecture (Via C3 Nehemiah) that I was using.
> >> VMware doesn't officially support that processor, even though it's
> >> supposed to be Intel compatible.  Another list member sent me a kernel
> >> patch that fixed the problem (thanks ghozzy).
> >>
> >> I also have a WinXP box with a Celeron processor in it and VMware
> >> Server installed, and FreeBSD 4.x and 6.x both install and run with no
> >> problems at all.
> >>
> >> If you have any specific questions, let me know and I'll try to answer
> >> them.  I'm going to be learning a lot more about VMware Server and
> >> FreeBSD in the coming months, as I'm working on redeploying my
> >> company's service using those tools as the foundation.  I hope to
> >> share that knowledge with the list as I proceed.
> >>
> >> I also found this thread
> >> (http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2006-October/132
> >> 716.html) with some information in it about issues to be aware of
> >> while running FreeBSD as a guest OS under VMware.  Follow the thread a
> >> little way, and you'll see an example kernel config file, too.
> >>
> >> Best of luck,
> >> Greg Larkin
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
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