From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 26 09:15:00 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org 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 34A9C16A407 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:15:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.175]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 572D243D53 for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:14:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from stapleton.41@gmail.com) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id m2so273779uge for ; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:14:58 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=DlQt2QoYZN1HfAbuVBQROtwL//XJXpp4v4UFjLEdOlCvgbboJPiaCw7vrbez1V0fW0iqEisdIwkbLml6I7CrZXbQuUlFHzbCp783U6Pk3GFP/efuvtdPWZBcbW5CGJkcKrzJDBIm+zlYj6E5kouIMRFW4JAB/eaJ3T7uBiAGP00= Received: by 10.66.243.4 with SMTP id q4mr2433547ugh; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.67.86.18 with HTTP; Thu, 26 Oct 2006 02:14:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <80f4f2b20610260214p5e1c85b5g2eddfe0a320ce175@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 05:14:58 -0400 From: "Jim Stapleton" Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <1161820724.20335.12.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <80f4f2b20610241236y353eb397u87c4bed8fbce2cf2@mail.gmail.com> <20061025115500.2503da00@localhost> <80f4f2b20610250230v71343b2cie9934104eff60a98@mail.gmail.com> <1161820724.20335.12.camel@RabbitsDen.RabbitsLawn.verizon.net> Subject: Re: Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted. X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 26 Oct 2006 09:15:00 -0000 Ahh, well thank you and back to the main purpose of this thread: 1) If Toshiba were to provide open source drivers for it's "weirdities", would you purchase their machines? 2) If "yes" to #1, would you join me in a snail-mail writing campaign to them to request they provide drivers for BSD and/or Linux - preferrably open source for one, or closed source for both, if it must remain closed for whatever reasons. Thanks, -Jim Stapleton On 10/25/06, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 05:30 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote: > > addendum: > > > > How are the Lenovo notebooks, now that they are no longer associated > > with IBM whatsoever? > > > I have Thinkpad X60 here tracking -CURRENT: > > -- wireless - Atheros 5212 -- just works. > -- bluetooth - works (syncing Palm Tungsten E2, Apple Bluetooth > keyboard). > -- sound -- with the latest snd_hda -- works (Amarok, Skype). > -- video -- 945GM -- recognized/attached, however glxgears show 600-700 > FPS, so, likely, no acceleration. > -- USB -- works (umass, ums) > -- Firewire -- works (sbp) > -- Ethernet -- Intel PRO/1000 -- works (em) > -- Ricoh SD card reader -- don't really know even how to start on this > one ;) > -- suspend/resume -- did not try, but judging by the discussion on > resuming dual-core CPU, likely does not. > -- general ACPI is recognized by acpi_ibm driver, which enables handful > of the IBM-specific functions (volume buttons, ThinkLight, brightness, > etc.) > -- no built-in optical drive to report. > > HTH, > > -- > Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko > >