From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 15 20:37:30 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7361116A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:37:30 +0000 (GMT) Received: from bast.unixathome.org (bast.unixathome.org [66.11.174.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4602943D2F for ; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:37:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dan@langille.org) Received: from wocker (wocker.unixathome.org [192.168.0.99]) by bast.unixathome.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 514B03D34; Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:37:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Dan Langille" To: Bruce M Simpson Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:37:29 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-ID: <40F6B2C9.7733.CBF345B@localhost> Priority: normal In-reply-to: <20040709004638.GO15368@empiric.dek.spc.org> References: <40EDB001.4311.E98BBCCC@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v4.12a) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-description: Mail message body cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How's current lately for laptops? (was Two questions on Thinkpad T41) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 20:37:30 -0000 On 9 Jul 2004 at 1:46, Bruce M Simpson wrote: > On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:35:13PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > > Bruce: I think this answers my question. My ThinkPad T41 is now in > > the shop getting a new system board (I hope). When it returns, I was > > considering running -CURRENT on it rather than 5.2.1-RELEASE. Your > > experience above has encouraged me to try it. I'll cvsup to the > > above date and let you know how it goes.... when I get it back. > > It's quite possible this could be down to a motherboard revision or a > bad batch of T41s. So far tests in this area have proven inconclusive. > This is a shot in the dark. > > I suggest running vpddecode (from ports/sysutils/dmidecode) as root to > determine what the motherboard serial numbers are. My values: # /usr/local/sbin/vpddecode # vpddecode 2.4 BIOS Build ID: 1RETCDWW Product Name: Thinkpad T40, T41, R50 or R50p Box Serial Number: 99F0532 Motherboard Serial Number: J1UY74451G8 Machine Type/Model: 2378DMU > > On a side note Bruce: Do you buildworld on your laptop or another > > box? > > My buildworld took place on kimchi which is my local FreeBSD cvs mirror and > main development machine. It is an AMD 1.1Ghz Thunderbird, with a Soyo > K7V Dragon+ mainboard and 512MB DDR. I cannot install -current on this laptop. It crashes during the install phase. See http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40F64C6B.21603.B2F4F5E for details. I'm going to try cvsup'ing to Jul 6 and building world from that. Perhaps I'll be able to get it to install and run that way. -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/