Re: [Pcbsd-developer] Selecting laptop modem during installation?

[Andrei K. <an...@bs...>]

On Friday 25 August 2006 10:41 pm, Charles A. Landemaine wrote:
> I was thinking about how tedious it is to set up a laptop, and how
> much time it takes searching on the Internet, on mailing lists and
> forums how to fix every bits of your laptop to have it to work
> properly. I don't mean it doesn't work out of the box, but it doesn't
> work as expected either. For instance to gather all the information to
> write this tutorial, it took a long long time:
> http://faqs.pcbsd.org/index.php?action=artikel&cat=9&id=294
>
> Now, if we could create a database of monitors that, if during
> installation, the person selects her brand and model of laptop, and
> PC-BSD runs a specific shell script in the background to do the tweaks
> necessary to fix little annoyances specific to this particular laptop,
> it would be so much better.
>
> What do you think?


I configured my livecd/flash version of freebsd xorg like this:
--------------------------------------------------
Section "Module"
        Load  "ddc"
        Load  "extmod"
        Load  "dri"
        Load  "dbe"
        Load  "freetype"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
        Identifier  "Mouse0"
        Driver      "mouse"
        Option      "Protocol" "Auto"
        Option      "Device" "/dev/sysmouse"
        Option      "ZAxisMapping" "4 5 6 7"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
    Identifier  "Keyboard0"
    Driver      "keyboard"
    Option      "XkbModel" "pc105"
    Option      "XkbLayout" "ee,ru(phonetic)"
    Option      "XkbOptions" "grp:switch,grp:alt_shift_toggle,grp_led:scroll"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier   "Monitor0"
        HorizSync    31.5 - 85.0
        VertRefresh  50.0 - 85.0
EndSection

Section "Device"
        Identifier  "Card0"
        Driver      "vesa"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier "Screen0"
        Device     "Card0"
        Monitor    "Monitor0"
        DefaultDepth     16
        SubSection "Display"
               Depth 16
                Modes    "1024x768"
        EndSubSection
EndSection
--------------------------------------------------

And it works in 99% of cases. Correct refresh rate/modeline. Keyboard layout 
works with Alt+Shift combination, layout indicator is ScrollLock led.