Re: ideal laptop recommendations?

Darryl Okahata <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freebsd.devel.mobile
Message-ID <[email protected]>
"Kevin Oberman" <[email protected]> wrote:

> For some period after you buy a ThinkPad (1 year?) IBM has shipped the
> CD free on request. IF YOU GET A THINKPAD, ALWAYS REQUEST THIS!

     Yes, definitely.  When I did this (a week or two after getting my
Thinkpad), the support guy told me the limit was "30 days".  I don't
think it's "1 year".

> > * With 5.0-RELEASE, ACPI is broken.  I haven't tried the latest -current
> >   with the recent ACPI updates, however, although I am using the latest
> >   IBM A31 BIOS.
> > 
> Still broken, as far as I can tell, but getting closer.

     Darn.  Thanks for the info.

> Nope. Still broken. This is common to all ATI Radeon Mobility M7 systems
> from any vendor. You can recover the display by switching to a vty,
> turning the display off and turning it back on and switching back to X.

     Double darn.

-- 
	Darryl Okahata
	[email protected]
	http://www.soco.agilent.com/~darrylo/
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