Re: IBM T30??

Tony,

I have received my first two T30s.

FreeBSD boots fine. Builds the system REALLY fast!

Problems:

X11 - I think that when I run 1400x1050, I am right on the edge. It
may require a special Modeline to make the display stable.

X starts fine. Looks GREAT!
The problems start when I turn off the display by Fn-F3, or
power-management. When the screen is turned back on, it looses sync
and I see weird things that look like a doubled horizontal image (sort
of). If I kill X, the sc display is also messed up. I can see the
early part of a line (but not quite the beginning) about half way
across the screen. Vertical bands of the screen repeat several times
across the screen.

I am currently not specifying any Modeline. One I found in the
archives for 60 Hz vertical refresh worked no better.

It seems to take a re-boot to make it right! Even a stop and restart
of X does not help. This is a serious problem!

Sound - Be sure to set 'options PCI_ENABLE_IO_MODES' in your kernel.

Works for Realplayer, but does not play anything from Gnome. No login
or other sound. If I have esound running, RealPlayer finds the device
in use and fails. This is identical to the operation of the ICH2 audio
on my Dell desktop. I really don't have a clue what is happening here,
but I'd love to fix it. It might be easier if I really understood how
it should work.

Modem - No luck. See http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=37623
for details. This looks like it's becoming a popular modem since it's
part of the main chipset from Intel.

APM - No real testing, but the basics (suspend/resume and power-off)
seem to work fine.

Other than that, it looks good!

R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
E-mail: [email protected]			Phone: +1 510 486-8634

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