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[Pcbsd-developer] Selecting laptop modem during installation?

[Charles A. L. <lan...@gm...>]

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?

-- 
Charles A. Landemaine.

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

[<ren...@gm...>]

Charles A. Landemaine escreveu:
> 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 think all these issues you described are related to xorg 
configuration. Some we can find workarounds for, some we will have to 
wait for xorg to correct.

Xorg is about to start a major revamp in terms of input/output device 
hotplugging and autoconfiguration so i guess we will have to go for the 
workarounds.

I hope sometime next year i can plug/unplug mice, keyboards and even 
monitors without a X restart being necessary.

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.