Date: 27 Jan 1998 19:50:36 +0100 From: dag-erli@ifi.uio.no (Dag-Erling Coidan Smørgrav) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: ThinkPad 380E Message-ID: <xzpbtwxkayr.fsf@grjottunagard.ifi.uio.no>
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Well, it's been a long night and a long day... If anybody's interested, FreeBSD 2.2.5-stable works like a charm on my IBM ThinkPad 380E. I installed 2.2.2-RELEASE (GENERIC, not PAO) over PLIP last night, then ftp'ed the 2.2.5-STABLE source tree (still over PLIP) and made world today. One item of particular interest is that FreeBSD's APM driver works perfectly, whereas Linux fails miserably on an identical machine: the first time you hit the suspend key it suspends, but the second time (after a wakeup) it doesn't. XFree86 3.3.1 (again, I transferred the entire source and binary dists over PLIP) runs well at 800x600x16 with the VGA16 driver. XF86Setup fails to configure it correctly, although it claims success. I had to pull an X config off the Linux ThinkPad Survey web site (no, I'm not proud) to make it work. Only caveat is the flaky floppy drive. After a certain amount of use I get consistent read errors which won't go away until I remove and reinsert the disk if I'm lucky, or cycle power if I'm not. BTW, does anybody run FreeBSD on a ThinkPad 765? I know somebody who runs RedHat Linux on a 765, and when you shut the cover it powers off (without shutting down) instead of suspending. BTW2, you may want to correct the handbook entry about PLIP (handbook17.html, section 2.2.5); it claims that "The data rate over the parallel port is much higher than what is typically possible over a serial line (up to 50k/sec)", which is an understatement. According to 'netstat -w 10', I averaged 90 kBps while ftp'ing large files over a 10' LapLink cable (of course, it did not occur to me to change the MTU to something higher than the default of 1500, so I lost about 10-20 kBps in overhead, but ncftp2 still peaked at 83 kBps although it averaged 75-80) -- * Finrod (INTJ) * Unix weenie * dag-erli@ifi.uio.no * cellular +47-92835919 * RFC1123: "Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send"
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