Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:05:55 +0600 (ALMT) From: Boris Popov <bp@butya.kz> To: Nate Williams <nate@yogotech.com> Cc: Steve Horan <sjhoran@goldenterrace.com.au>, -CURRENT <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Laptops and sc0/vt0 consoles Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011231052460.62723-100000@lion.butya.kz> In-Reply-To: <14876.2084.621017.530399@nomad.yogotech.com>
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On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nate Williams wrote: > > 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. Hmm, then I'm the lucky one :). There is an old ThinkPad 340 (486/4MB/120MB) which runs heavily trimmed down preSMPNG -current with sc driver. The only caveat is that one should specify a flag which disables keyboard reset, because without it machine will silently reboot. Besides that this ThinkPad works as gateway (even with PCMCIA ethernet card) without any problems. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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