From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 9 07:34:20 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3006E106564A for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:34:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bunchou@googlemail.com) Received: from mail-ee0-f54.google.com (mail-ee0-f54.google.com [74.125.83.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5D068FC08 for ; Fri, 9 Dec 2011 07:34:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by eekc50 with SMTP id c50so1691314eek.13 for ; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:34:18 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlemail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:x-mailer :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=h4lzwIocBDLL9hU2xga4WYRCukb8n5T3LnMLnOrT5rU=; b=TbDrr59pGYklvJo7n0NA6UygE4jRG1bsdlHv2X6P+ksMvoK80ByQzhNwVr9JqzAndh 3TGaVhSoLrm8N8D8/qNqYoo/JwRxskgf2O7YuXV+iusU0y6Tqm2ePYoZ0SPeA1ZIN/yi i49vZWNdWuxxZec8yCZkzaIMMhR2iXh2SSYOk= Received: by 10.213.31.141 with SMTP id y13mr590587ebc.133.1323414237694; Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:03:57 -0800 (PST) Received: from kuro.5550h.net (p54AEE5B6.dip.t-dialin.net. [84.174.229.182]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 49sm27540612eec.1.2011.12.08.23.03.56 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 08 Dec 2011 23:03:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Fri, 9 Dec 2011 08:03:55 +0100 From: "=?UTF-8?B?5paH6bOl?=" To: Pierre-Luc Drouin Message-ID: <20111209080355.118d7aa5@kuro.5550h.net> In-Reply-To: References: <4EE0E96C.8090406@locolomo.org> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.10 (GTK+ 2.24.6; amd64-portbld-freebsd9.0) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Lenovo Laptop? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:34:20 -0000 Hi, I am typing this message on a W520 running 9.0 stable, which should be similar enough to the T520. - MBR boot works fine, but GPT seems to be impossible (Lenovo appears to have messed up again). - The NVidia driver is working almost perfectly once you enforce it in BIOS, but occasionally (3 times in last 2.5 months) the screen starts displaying a strange block pattern after some time and renders the display unusable until I restart X (logging in via SSH works, as does the power button == ACPI shutdown). Haven't been able track the cause down yet. - Suspend seems to be unreliable, so I stopped trying (back on BETA2). - acpi_ibm.ko works once you patch sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_ibm.c, line 338, and replace "IBM0068" with "LEN0068", which makes most of the multimedia keys usable. - Wireless is working (iwn), but I'm not using it that frequently so YMMV. - I cannot comment on bluetooth, camera or SD card reader, since I never use those. But there is one annoying problem I did not manage to fix yet: The screen brightness control does not work at all, i.e. it's always at maximum (hw.acpi.video sysctls seem to have no effect). All in all, this laptop is a nice desktop replacement, just don't expect the battery to last too long. Best regards