Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 07:39:00 -0500 From: "Joe Joplin" <joejop@triad.rr.com> To: "Michael Reifenberger" <root@nihil.plaut.de>, "FreeBSD-Current" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Thinkpad A30p and -current. status and issues Message-ID: <006501c1951c$c902a060$0203a8c0@2kprohome> References: <20020104123753.T522-300000@nihil>
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I think they are getting close to a driver for the winmodem, http://phantom.cris.net/freebsd/projects/viewproj.php?p_id=13 Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Reifenberger" <root@nihil.plaut.de> To: "FreeBSD-Current" <current@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, January 04, 2002 7:19 AM Subject: Thinkpad A30p and -current. status and issues > Hi, > because I behaved well last year christmas brought a new A30p > in replacement for my former Toshiba Tecra 8000 :-) > First impression: Nice pice of plastic and silicon. > Migrating from the Tecra to the A30p was a few hours for FreeBSD > (exclusivly for dump/restore from old to new disk.) > Editing rc.conf, fstab and XF86Config took a few minutes. > Migrating NT2K took one day for reinstalling all applications > and rebooting dozend of times.... > BTW: The A30p doesnt have a Floppy by default anymore and no > installation CD's for reinstallation. All is preinstalled in > a obscure Win98 1Gig Partition at the end of the harddisk which > gets called if one presses F11 during startup. But it seems a > MBR feature which goes away if one installs an alternative > bootblock. > > Working Features: > - The display X11 @ 1600x1200 via VESA driver > (the RADEON chip is not directly supported in XFree 4.1.0) > - build-in fxp0 > - modular DVD/CDR/CDRW comby (is a Toshiba drive) > - USB / USB-mouse > - PS/2 > - UDMA33/66/100 via ATA(66/100) / ATAPI (33) > - OLDCARD via the legacy shims > > Not working Features: > - agp driver (unknown too new chipset) > - SMB/IIC-bus ( " ) > - Sound (Intel ICH3) > - NEWCARD > - OLDCARD pcic_pci attachment > - Lucent Softmodem (no driver) > - Firewire ( " ) > - ACPI (I get some Error messages during startup and I'm not > sure up to which extend ACPI works) > > The OLDCARD/NEWCARD/Sound issues seems all to be related > to bus mapping problems of register and io memory. > See attached files dmesg2.txt and pciconf.txt. > > Does anyone know how to interpret and resolve the mapping issues? > Which bridge-chip is responsible for the agp access? > > Bye! > ---- > Michael Reifenberger > ^.*Plaut.*$, IT, R/3 Basis, GPS > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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