From owner-freebsd-current Wed Nov 22 21: 6: 2 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from relay.butya.kz (butya-gw.butya.kz [212.154.129.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F408E37B4CF for ; Wed, 22 Nov 2000 21:05:58 -0800 (PST) Received: by relay.butya.kz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 75848285CC; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:05:55 +0600 (ALMT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.butya.kz (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ACD9285C4; Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:05:55 +0600 (ALMT) Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 11:05:55 +0600 (ALMT) From: Boris Popov To: Nate Williams Cc: Steve Horan , -CURRENT Subject: Re: Laptops and sc0/vt0 consoles In-Reply-To: <14876.2084.621017.530399@nomad.yogotech.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nate Williams wrote: > > In my past experience, FreeBSD hasn't agreed very well with IBM > > thinkpad laptops, unless you were using the vt0 console driver. > > This is *VERY* old information. When Pentium's were introduced > (755/560) series, it has no longer been a necessity. > > The old 486 laptops need vt0, but anything newer works fine with sc0. Hmm, then I'm the lucky one :). There is an old ThinkPad 340 (486/4MB/120MB) which runs heavily trimmed down preSMPNG -current with sc driver. The only caveat is that one should specify a flag which disables keyboard reset, because without it machine will silently reboot. Besides that this ThinkPad works as gateway (even with PCMCIA ethernet card) without any problems. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message