Changing command-line resolution
Hi! I was wondering if there is a way to change the command-line resolution... Back then with Linux, I could adjust the resolution in grub or lilo by passing some parameters to the kernel. Is there any way to do the same thing in FreeBSD? I wouldn't want to waste that big wide screen =P I got a Dell Inspiron 6400 (e1505) with an NVidia video card running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE amd64. Thanks! frzburn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Changing command-line resolution
Good! =D Thanks! =) frzburn On 3/7/07, Daniel Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/8/07, frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! I was wondering if there is a way to change the command-line resolution... Back then with Linux, I could adjust the resolution in grub or lilo by passing some parameters to the kernel. Is there any way to do the same thing in FreeBSD? I wouldn't want to waste that big wide screen =P I got a Dell Inspiron 6400 (e1505) with an NVidia video card running FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE amd64. man vidcontrol Vidcontrol is your friend. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI
Well, I thought about it, and you're right... What I really need is to be
able to do something upon an acpi event, like running a script when I close
my lid...
But I didn't find these info anywhere =(
Please help me! =)
acpi is working, it has control on my fan and monitors my CPU temperature.
I tried devd -dD, and it reacts when I close my lid, but I don't know how to
use this output...
Thanks!
frzburn
On 3/6/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:28:06 -0500
frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on my
Dell
Laptop.
I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64.
Hi there,
I am not sure how to switch off the screen on the dell (independent of
ACPI)... in all laptops I've seen, it's fully controlled by the hardware
(bios?).
Have you got acpi working ?
If you *do* have ACPI working, and you want to see whether it is firing
acpi at
all when you close the lid, you can restart devd in debugging mode:
/etc/rc.d/devd stop
devd -dD
and then try your ACPI events.
Also, you should be able to tell your ACPI module to let you handle the
events
manually. For example, with the acpi_ibm.ko, the knob
dev.acpi_ibm.0.events = 1
tells acpi to pass all acpi messages to devd for handling. Search the logs
(in
mobile@ , i believe) - i've posted my config for some sample actions on
different ACPI events.
BTW, you may be able to switch off the display using a user mode
application
that is related to your video card. For example, if you have a Radeon
card, the
radeontool allows you to switch off the panel and external monitor outputs
(although the ext monitor gets switched on when you switch to X's VT)
HIH,
Beto
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Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI
THAT is exactly what I needed!
A lot of thanks to both of you! =D
frzburn
On 3/6/07, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/6/07, frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I thought about it, and you're right... What I really need is to
be
able to do something upon an acpi event, like running a script when I
close
my lid...
But I didn't find these info anywhere =(
Please help me! =)
acpi is working, it has control on my fan and monitors my CPU
temperature.
I tried devd -dD, and it reacts when I close my lid, but I don't know
how to
use this output...
Thanks!
frzburn
On 3/6/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:28:06 -0500
frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on my
Dell
Laptop.
I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64.
Hi there,
I am not sure how to switch off the screen on the dell (independent of
ACPI)... in all laptops I've seen, it's fully controlled by the
hardware
(bios?).
Have you got acpi working ?
If you *do* have ACPI working, and you want to see whether it is
firing
acpi at
all when you close the lid, you can restart devd in debugging mode:
/etc/rc.d/devd stop
devd -dD
and then try your ACPI events.
Also, you should be able to tell your ACPI module to let you handle
the
events
manually. For example, with the acpi_ibm.ko, the knob
dev.acpi_ibm.0.events = 1
tells acpi to pass all acpi messages to devd for handling. Search the
logs
(in
mobile@ , i believe) - i've posted my config for some sample actions
on
different ACPI events.
BTW, you may be able to switch off the display using a user mode
application
that is related to your video card. For example, if you have a Radeon
card, the
radeontool allows you to switch off the panel and external monitor
outputs
(although the ext monitor gets switched on when you switch to X's VT)
HIH,
Beto
_
{Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
I have a Inspiron 8200, and I have the following in /etc/devd.conf to
turn off the screen when the lid is closed:
notify 10 {
match system ACPI;
match subsystem Lid;
match notify 0x00;
action /usr/local/bin/xset -display :0 dpms force off
/tmp/xset.log;
};
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Re: Laptop lid switch and ACPI
OK, so I'm half the way to what I want =/
All these things with acpi work well, but as I got a NVidia card _and_
FreeBSD in amd64, I can't install the NVidia drivers... So I can turn my
screen blank with dpms, but the backlight stays on =( and this dpms stuff
doesn't work in command-line...
Do you know if there's some way to control the video card/turn the backlight
off without NVidia's drivers? And if I can get this to work in command-line?
I remember that with Gentoo all that stuff worked, even in command-line. But
of course, I had NVidia drivers...
frzburn
On 3/6/07, frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
THAT is exactly what I needed!
A lot of thanks to both of you! =D
frzburn
On 3/6/07, Kevin Downey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/6/07, frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I thought about it, and you're right... What I really need is to
be
able to do something upon an acpi event, like running a script when I
close
my lid...
But I didn't find these info anywhere =(
Please help me! =)
acpi is working, it has control on my fan and monitors my CPU
temperature.
I tried devd -dD, and it reacts when I close my lid, but I don't know
how to
use this output...
Thanks!
frzburn
On 3/6/07, Norberto Meijome [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 16:28:06 -0500
frzburn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on
my
Dell
Laptop.
I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64.
Hi there,
I am not sure how to switch off the screen on the dell (independent
of
ACPI)... in all laptops I've seen, it's fully controlled by the
hardware
(bios?).
Have you got acpi working ?
If you *do* have ACPI working, and you want to see whether it is
firing
acpi at
all when you close the lid, you can restart devd in debugging mode:
/etc/rc.d/devd stop
devd -dD
and then try your ACPI events.
Also, you should be able to tell your ACPI module to let you handle
the
events
manually. For example, with the acpi_ibm.ko, the knob
dev.acpi_ibm.0.events = 1
tells acpi to pass all acpi messages to devd for handling. Search
the logs
(in
mobile@ , i believe) - i've posted my config for some sample actions
on
different ACPI events.
BTW, you may be able to switch off the display using a user mode
application
that is related to your video card. For example, if you have a
Radeon
card, the
radeontool allows you to switch off the panel and external monitor
outputs
(although the ext monitor gets switched on when you switch to X's
VT)
HIH,
Beto
_
{Beto|Norberto|Numard} Meijome
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Peter
I have a Inspiron 8200, and I have the following in /etc/devd.conf to
turn off the screen when the lid is closed:
notify 10 {
match system ACPI;
match subsystem Lid;
match notify 0x00;
action /usr/local/bin/xset -display :0 dpms force off
/tmp/xset.log;
};
--
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occurred.
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Fetching sources from Windows?
Hi! I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work). What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the handbook ( http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html), even if it means downloading all of it, since there no way to diff with my current source... Thanks! =) frzburn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Fetching sources from Windows?
OK, thank to all of you for your replies! I'll see what I can do... Thanks! frzburn On 3/5/07, Nagy László Zsolt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: frzburn írta: Hi! I have a slow Internet connection at home, and I would like to know if it is possible to fetch the STABLE sources from somewhere else (ex.: at work). What I want is to get the latest sources, like described in the handbook ( http://www.ca.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/synching.html ), even if it means downloading all of it, since there no way to diff with my current source... You can also try to install a vmware player on windows, install FreeBSD on it, fetch the sources and make a tarball. (It is just an idea, may not work for you.) Laszlo ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Laptop lid switch and ACPI
Hi folks! I need a hint on how to get my screen turn off (backlight too) on my Dell Laptop. I have an Inspiron 6400 (e1505), and FreeBSD 6 - amd64. That's all! Thanks! =) frzburn ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
