Date: Wed, 9 May 2001 09:26:40 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: "~/.signature" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> Cc: "Dmitry V. Kalashnikov" <dvk@qwest.net>, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, "Dmitry V . Kalashnikov" <dvk@toolbuilders.com> Subject: Re: My perfect laptop! Message-ID: <20010509092640.I68969@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <200105081438.f48Ecjx05412@fac13.ds.psu.edu>; from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu on Tue, May 08, 2001 at 10:38:45AM -0400 References: <20010508181059.G68969@wantadilla.lemis.com> <200105081438.f48Ecjx05412@fac13.ds.psu.edu>
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On Tuesday, 8 May 2001 at 10:38:45 -0400, ~/.signature wrote:
>> IBM. Note that IBM had some problems with recent BIOSes which caused
>> the machine to freeze up if it found a FreeBSD partition on disk.
>> That problem has been fixed on at least some of the machines, but you
>> should check first.
>
> My understanding is that all currently shipping models are fixed, and
> that you can install bios upgrades on all the older affected models.
>
> I saved a gig for a suspend partition, but the documentation didn't
> tell me how to use it !
I think it just stores a copy of RAM, so you don't need (much more)
space than the size of your RAM. I don't know if FreeBSD supports
suspend-to-disk.
My issues with the ThinkPads are:
1. I don't like the eraserhead pointer. I suppose I could get used
to it, but it's an issue against it.
2. All ThinkPads I have seen have the Fn key at bottom left where the
Alt key should be. If it were anything else (Ctrl, for example),
it could be remapped, but you can't remap the Fn key. Is this
still the case on your machine?
Greg
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