From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 22 9:53:51 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from ns.yogotech.com (ns.yogotech.com [206.127.123.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C31637B479 for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 09:53:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from nomad.yogotech.com (nomad.yogotech.com [206.127.123.131]) by ns.yogotech.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA10613; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:53:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@nomad.yogotech.com) Received: (from nate@localhost) by nomad.yogotech.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA05592; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:53:41 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate) From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14876.2084.621017.530399@nomad.yogotech.com> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 10:53:40 -0700 (MST) To: Steve Horan Cc: -CURRENT Subject: Re: Laptops and sc0/vt0 consoles In-Reply-To: <20001123034411.F377@goldenterrace.com.au> References: <20001123034411.F377@goldenterrace.com.au> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: nate@yogotech.com (Nate Williams) Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Apologies upfront if anything I ask/say has already been covered, I'm > somwhat limited in my resources at present. > > In my past experience, FreeBSD hasn't agreed very well with IBM > thinkpad laptops, unless you were using the vt0 console driver. This is *VERY* old information. When Pentium's were introduced (755/560) series, it has no longer been a necessity. The old 486 laptops need vt0, but anything newer works fine with sc0. (I speak from experience, having had an IBM laptop for 7-8 years, and being responsible for writing or integrating the code in FreeBSD to support IBM Thinkpads.) I'm also typing on a ThinkPad right now, which is my 'main' platform, and it's doing fine with syscons, as have my previous 3 ThinkPads. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message