From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 27 11:48:39 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73E4F1065672 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:48:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: from sink.sics.se (sink.sics.se [193.10.64.88]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE5058FC15 for ; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:48:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from P142.sics.se (P142.sics.se [193.10.66.253]) by sink.sics.se (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p5RBmYIR032519 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:48:35 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: from P142.sics.se (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by P142.sics.se (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p5RBmp31003097; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:48:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) Received: (from bengta@localhost) by P142.sics.se (8.14.4/8.14.4/Submit) id p5RBmoLZ003096; Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:48:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from bengta@P142.sics.se) From: Bengt Ahlgren To: Ian Smith In-Reply-To: <20110626165210.P72504@sola.nimnet.asn.au> (Ian Smith's message of "Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:36:27 +1000 (EST)") References: <20110625182502.GF29050@albert.catwhisker.org> <20110625191708.GA1182@tiny> <20110626165210.P72504@sola.nimnet.asn.au> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (berkeley-unix) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 13:48:50 +0200 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: Bastian Rieck , Matthias Apitz , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Laptop recommendations? X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 11:48:39 -0000 Ian Smith writes: > On Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:17:08 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote: > > El d=EDa Saturday, June 25, 2011 a las 11:25:02AM -0700, David Wolfski= ll escribi=F3: > >=20 > > > On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 07:34:24PM +0200, Bastian Rieck wrote: > > > > Dear list, > > > >=20 > > > > I need to replace my old IBM Thinkpad R50e, which is running FreeB= SD > > > > 8.2. Currently, my favoured replacement is a Lenovo ThinkPad Edge = E520. > > > > .... > > >=20 > > > I rather like the laptop I've been using for the past several months= : a > > > Dell Precision M4400. I track stable/8 & head (in different slices)= on > > > it daily; it normally takes about an hour to take care of both of th= ose. > >=20 > > I run a bunch of laptops/netbooks, all with some older 8-CURRENT or now > > 9-CURRENT (head): > >=20 > > Acer Aspire One D250 > > Fujitsu Siemens Amilo M1437G > > Asus EeePC 900 > > Dell M4400 > > How well does suspend/resume work on these? An absolute must for me. > > My Thinkpad T23s always resumed 100% reliably through 6.x and 7.x, still= =20 > does at 7.4-R, but since 8.0-R through to 8.2-R they completely freeze > for an even 60 seconds on resume, after which I often get a bunch of=20 > 'time went backwards' errors - sometimes on every process running - so=20 > I've never felt able to really trust it after resuming. Noone seems to=20 > know about that issue; probably no developers have i386 laptops anymore. Me too for a Thinkpad X40 (running 8.2-R). I tracked down the stall on resume to uhci.ko. Without that module loaded, there was no stall. Other usb modules did not make any difference. I unfortunately did not have time to investigate it further. My laptop comes to life reliably after the stall. Bengt