Re: Display / Screen resolution question on IBM TP 1171

2008-02-01 Thread Tore Lund
Angel Heaven wrote: > Next problem: it has no sound. It seems like no sound > card is detected at all. Any help is appreciated. Have you tried "kldload snd_driver"? The instructions in the Handbook section 7.2.1 usually work for me. -- Tore ___ f

Re: Display / Screen resolution question on IBM TP 1171

2008-01-31 Thread Angel Heaven
After 2 days of persistent trying and no answer from this mailing list, I actually figured out a way myself! So I'll share it here in case someone else has the same problem. The problem is that xorg.conf generated by "X -configure" actually makes the laptop's pointing device(trackball) stop working

Display / Screen resolution question on IBM TP 1171

2008-01-29 Thread Angel Heaven
I've just finished installing freebsd on my IBM thinkpad i-series i-1300 1171 series IV laptop. This is a machine on which none of DSL, fedora, or ubuntu liveCD would work at all. So I am surprised (and quite grateful) that freebsd can actually be installed on this laptop! The next problem is