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Date:      Wed, 26 Nov 2014 19:47:30 -0400
From:      Joseph Mingrone <jrm@ftfl.ca>
To:        freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Best experience with Thinkpad suspend/resume
Message-ID:  <86a93ded7x.fsf@gly.ftfl.ca>
References:  <54707D0A.2060502@peercorpstrust.org>

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PeerCorps Trust Fund <ipc@peercorpstrust.org> writes:
> We are considering the acquisition of about 40 Thinkpad laptops
> intended to be deployed in schools as teaching tools. ... Can others
> confirm this is still the case under FreeBSD 10.1? Any other
> models/suggestions would be extremely appreciated.

Suspend and resume work nearly flawlessly on my X220 running 10.1.  I
say nearly flawlessly because maybe one out of 10 resumes I'm switched
from my X session to virtual terminal 1.  It's not a big deal
though.  Alt-f9 brings me back to where I left off.

The main headache with the X220 is a BIOS issue which prevents booting
a GPT-partitioned disk without UEFI.  This problem isn't specific to
FreeBSD.  UEFI and root ZFS don't work yet.  A good solution for now is
to use GRUB.

Of course the X220 isn't available new any more and I'm not sure about
the successors (X230 and X240).  Off topic: It's a shame Lenovo messed
with the keyboard (I don't mean the chicklet keys, but the layout).

Joseph




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