FreeBSD 5.1Release on Compaq Presario Laptop.

Andrew L. Gould algould at datawok.com
Tue Jun 29 14:51:23 PDT 2004


On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:39 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote:
> Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:29 pm, Frédéric Hardy wrote:
> >>Andrew L. Gould wrote:
> >>>On Tuesday 29 June 2004 04:14 pm, Frédéric 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 nicely for my Dell Inspiron 8100.
> >>
> >>Thanks for your response.
> >>Using Fn-F7 at boot ?
> >
> >No, when your console is a small rectangle.
> >
> >Best regards,
> >
> >Andrew Gould
>
> I'm very disapointed, fn-F7 seems not worked :-(
> Have you got any solutions ?
>
> Best regards, fred

Other than playing around with different key combinations, no.

Good luck,

Andrew


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