From owner-freebsd-mobile Fri Sep 22 19:27:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from whistle.com (s205m131.whistle.com [207.76.205.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 742D137B423 for ; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:27:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by whistle.com (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e8N2R5p00475; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:27:05 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bubba.whistle.com( 207.76.205.7) by whistle.com via smap (V2.0) id xma000473; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:27:00 -0700 Received: (from archie@localhost) by bubba.whistle.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA01843; Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:26:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from archie) From: Archie Cobbs Message-Id: <200009230226.TAA01843@bubba.whistle.com> Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad T20 In-Reply-To: "from Adam Ulmer at Sep 20, 2000 06:52:58 pm" To: aulmer@veriohosting.com Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2000 19:26:54 -0700 (PDT) Cc: jonas.bulow@servicefactory.se, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL82 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Adam Ulmer writes: > I tried to install freebsd 4.1 on a Thinkpad A20m. I went through several > permutations and ended up with a useless brick each time. (All while I'm thinking seriously about getting a T20 as well (because they're cheaper as an IBM employee). The obstacles you mention are worrisome but I think it's still worth it for me to get one and just try to hack whatever is necessary in order to get it to work (as much as I can). First I'd like to get clear on what the issues are.. - Boot blocks: you said that it wouldn't recognize the FreeBSD partition ID.. doesn't this problem go away if you install FreeBSD's boot0 (using boot0cfg)? - X11: XFree86 4.0.1 claims to support the "Savage IX" chip, but the T20 spec sheet says it has a "Savage IX8". Does it work? - Is sound supported? Chips: "CD4624 with CS4297A AC97 codec" > As soon as I get the laptop back I will try to get a bootmanager installed > (LILO, perhaps). If anyone has any recommendations, I'm open to other > ideas (but the laptop has to boot 3 different OS's). Did you try using boot0cfg? Thanks, -Archie ___________________________________________________________________________ Archie Cobbs * Whistle Communications, Inc. * http://www.whistle.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message