From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 21:11:33 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93A6D16A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:11:33 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6818C43D39 for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:11:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A00213D34; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:11:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Bruce M Simpson Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:11:32 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <40F6BAC4.15798.CDE62A7@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20040709013152.GR15368@empiric.dek.spc.org> References: <40EDB001.4311.E98BBCCC@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How's current lately for laptops? (was Two questions on Thinkpad T41) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:11:33 -0000 On 9 Jul 2004 at 2:31, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:35:13PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > Bruce: I think this answers my question. My ThinkPad T41 is now in > > the shop getting a new system board (I hope). When it returns, I was > > considering running -CURRENT on it rather than 5.2.1-RELEASE. Your > > experience above has encouraged me to try it. I'll cvsup to the > > above date and let you know how it goes.... when I get it back. > > You also said on IRC: > > [John Baldwin had a look at it at USENIX, and he figured it > > was a cable or controller problem, which means the system board] > > If we can establish that the problem is isolated to a specific ATA > controller revision, we may be getting somewhere.... > > My T40, which does not demonstrate any of these problems, has the following: > atapci0@pci0:31:1: class=0x01018a card=0x052d1014 chip=0x24ca8086 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > A locally affected T41 has the following: > atapci0@pci0:31:1: class=0x01018a card=0x052d1014 chip=0x24ca8086 > rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 > > ...which are again, identical. > > Your T41 is... off to the shop for a motherboard replacement. My T41 is back, with a new motherboard installed. atapci0@pci0:31:1: class=0x01018a card=0x052d1014 chip=0x24ca8086 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Intel Corporation' device = '82801DBM (ICH4-M) UltraATA/100 EIDE Controller' class = mass storage subclass = ATA My T41 boot OK with > What I'd like to do next is for people with affected machines to run > acpidump, extract their DSDT, and then run md5 to at least establish > if they're different; and following on from THAT, to run iasl and diff > for possibly differing ACPI methods with regards to the CD-RW module. Would it be useful to see a non-affected machine? Here's mine: [root@laptop:~] # acpidump -d > ~/acpidump.DSDT [root@laptop:~] # md5 ~/acpidump.DSDT MD5 (/root/acpidump.DSDT) = a1db426b9d8061620e7bb0bf287896b4 [root@laptop:~] # -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/