Date: Sat, 20 Nov 2004 12:04:50 -0800 (PST) From: Peter Thoenen <eol1@yahoo.com> To: Arne Schwabe <arne@rfc2549.org>, Khairil Yusof <khairil@apdip.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40 Message-ID: <20041120200450.88989.qmail@web51909.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <86u0rklhkb.fsf@kamino.rfc1149.org>
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> >> Has anybody gotten FreeBSD 5.3 to run ok on a Thinkpad X40? > >> On all the recent X series I have owned (pretty much them all), you need to boot into windows (ugh), run the thinkpad configuration tool, and disable the secondary ATA controller. As Arne suggested, this has no noticable effect on anything ... laptop still works fine, base station (w/ CDROM) works just fine, etc etc. Once this has been accomplished, FreeBSD 5.x installs and runs with no problems. Been running it every since the X40 came out.
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