From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 13 22:26:34 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 5A6BD16A4D1 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:26:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from brev.sics.se (brev.sics.se [193.10.64.200]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72DC643D60 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:26:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: from P142.sics.se (ferrari.sics.se [193.10.65.63]) by brev.sics.se (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id iBDMQR5h007553; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:26:28 +0100 env-to () env-from (bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: from P142.sics.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by P142.sics.se (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBDMQe7C004059; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:26:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: (from bengta@localhost) by P142.sics.se (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id iBDMQeIZ004056; Mon, 13 Dec 2004 23:26:40 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from bengta) To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <1100928108.2680.30.camel@wolverine.cerebro.net.my> From: Bengt Ahlgren In-Reply-To: Khairil Yusof's message of "Sat, 20 Nov 2004 13:21:47 +0800" Date: 13 Dec 2004 23:26:40 +0100 Message-ID: Lines: 37 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40 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: Mon, 13 Dec 2004 22:26:34 -0000 Khairil Yusof writes: > Has anybody gotten FreeBSD 5.3 to run ok on a Thinkpad X40? Sorry for continuing an old thread... But I'd like to share my experience of 5.3R on the X40. By large, I think it works very nicely, but there are a few issues: I can't use a kernel with device apic. If I do, the machine works without problems until the first suspend. When resuming, it looses ad0, which makes it a bit unhappy... The mouse gets very very sluggish, so I suspect some interrupt problems. Switching to the external screen is not flawless. The pointer to the start of the video memory gets offset, and you see a grayish band at the top of the screen. A work-around that resets this is to run "xrandr -s 0". The same happens if you just close the lid (not suspending) and open again. There is also not (as of xorg 6.7.0) support for having both the internal and external screens on simultaneously, which is annoying when doing a presentation. You also need to disable the hardware cursor to get a mouse pointer on the external screen. Put this in the device section of your xorg.conf: Option "SWCursor" "yes" When it comes to the built in wireless, I have had much better success with the ipw driver (http://damien.bergamini.free.fr/ipw/) than NDIS. Ipw works very nicely, also with WEP, but there seems to be some side-effects to the system, because sometimes after I unload the ipw module, it does not recognise any PC card. It just says: pccard0: Card has no functions! cbb0: PC Card card activation failed regardless of which card I insert. Bengt