Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40
Bengt Ahlgren <[email protected]>
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Khairil Yusof <[email protected]> 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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"