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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.3 on Thinkpad X40
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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.