From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 17 12:11:53 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 A9B6416A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:11:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from maeko.hayai.de (maeko.hayai.de [217.172.178.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C6F43D49 for ; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 12:11:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mail@maeko.hayai.de) Received: from maeko.hayai.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by maeko.hayai.de (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id i5HCBZjg027551 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:11:35 +0200 Received: (from mail@localhost) by maeko.hayai.de (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id i5HCBOZe027541; Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:11:24 +0200 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 14:11:24 +0200 From: Marco Wertejuk To: Ludwig Schreier Message-ID: <20040617121124.GA27183@maeko.hayai.de> Mail-Followup-To: Ludwig Schreier , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <004d01c453d1$5ae27f80$de01a8c0@lambda> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <004d01c453d1$5ae27f80$de01a8c0@lambda> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: i) Questions on IBM Thinkpad A22m. ii) Plus: Thinkpad R40e additional words 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, 17 Jun 2004 12:11:53 -0000 | I found someone selling a Thinkpad A22m and now the question is: | | Do you have any experience with it running FreeBSD Unix? I had an A22m 900 MHz model with 15" 1400x1050 Display and can't remember any serious problems beside those: [1] When using ACPI, the notebook powered on ~5 minutes after shutdown (no matter if I use -p or push the power button) that actually broke this laptop for me because it overheated. APM worked fine. [2] There were some graphic card whoes, when there's heavy activity on the screen (i.e. a fast scrolling terminal) pixels flickered near the scrolling area. This also happened with mplayer in window mode, fullscreen hadn't any problems. [3] xfree and bios protection for system or hdd (and APM) When using HDD or system protection (bios option) and suspending the laptop while in X, you won't see the small logo from the bios which tell's you to enter the password. The screen either remained black until the correct password was entered or the small logo was broken and just a pixel mess. | This questions also includes questions about: | | - If the onboard ethernet will be supported. (I will ask the seller for it's | chipset ... or at least more details on this) It used to be an intel chipset card (fxp) driver and isn't really onboard, it's mini-pci and replaceable. | - If this (to me) mysthic "SpeedStep" CPU (actually it's a PIII with 1 GHz) | is fully supported. (I will checkout the hardware faq later this day) The bios lowers the CPU Speed, no matter what OS you're using. When using ACPI you can control speedstep with FreeBSD by setting hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_max: 8 hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_state: 8 to approriate values. | - Everything fine with it? See above. | - Did you made and experience with it, using it, running FreeBSD? Most of the time I was running current but stable worked fine too. As other people mentioned before, try to test the notebook regarding these issues. -- Mit freundlichen Gruessen, Marco Wertejuk - mwcis.com Consulting & Internet Solutions