From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Nov 29 21:26: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from spock.org (cm-24-169-11-24.nycap.rr.com [24.169.11.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9275237B400 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:26:06 -0800 (PST) Received: (from jon@localhost) by spock.org serial EF600Q3T-B7F; Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:24:15 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from jon) Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 00:24:15 -0500 From: Jonathan Chen To: Kevin Oberman Cc: Brett Glass , webmaster@wmptl.com, bwoods2@uswest.net, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Here is what IBM thinks about using FreeBSD on their newer Thinkpads Message-ID: <20001130002415.B50250@spock.org> References: <4.3.2.7.2.20001129110537.0498b6c0@localhost> <200011291829.eATITWJ23422@ptavv.es.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: telnet/1.1x In-Reply-To: <200011291829.eATITWJ23422@ptavv.es.net>; from oberman@es.net on Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:29:32AM -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 10:29:32AM -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: > The only real annoyance I have with the 600E is the sound. It > seemingly randomly probes as pcm0 or pcm1. If it probes as pcm0, it > works fine. If it probes as pcm1, it's dead. I hate computers with > non-deterministic behavior! The 600E has a sound setup that apparently looks like both a PCI and ISA-PnP device, and is just plain weird. To get it working consistantly as pcm0, simply apply the following patch and remove "device csa" from your kernel config. Index: sys/conf/files =================================================================== RCS file: /export/ncvs/src/sys/conf/files,v retrieving revision 1.340.2.38 diff -u -r1.340.2.38 files --- sys/conf/files 2000/10/31 23:16:07 1.340.2.38 +++ sys/conf/files 2000/11/30 05:10:55 @@ -1090,8 +1090,7 @@ dev/sound/isa/sbc.c optional sbc isa #dev/sound/pci/aureal.c optional pcm pci dev/sound/pci/csa.c optional csa pci -dev/sound/pci/csa.c optional pcm pci -dev/sound/pci/csapcm.c optional pcm pci +dev/sound/pci/csapcm.c optional csa pcm pci dev/sound/pci/ds1.c optional pcm pci dev/sound/pci/emu10k1.c optional pcm pci dev/sound/pci/es137x.c optional pcm pci > Other then that, I have always preferred ThinkPads because of the > excellent keyboard (I'm very finicky about that), the TrackPoint (if I > don't plug in an external mouse) and the 3-button "mouse". Fairly > light, too. Ditto, I shopped around a while back for ANY laptop that had 1024x768 screen, a good keyboard, and a 3-button trackpoint (I hate those touchpads) that's also lightweight. These are basically the requirements that has to be met before I even consider a laptop... The only candidate I found was the 600E. (more recently I think I've seen Dells that fit my requirement, but I won't be replacing my 600E for a while yet) > I started drooling over the new ThinkPads, but I won't touch them with > a 10 foot pole as long as this problem persists. The newer thinkpads are indeed very nice, but it wouldn't be a show stopper for me if I were considering buying one... after all, several workarounds are available. -- (o_ 1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2-1-2 _o) \\\_\ Jonathan Chen jon@spock.org /_/// <____) No electrons were harmed during production of this message (____> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message