Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 09:59:58 -0700 From: Darryl Okahata <darrylo@soco.agilent.com> To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ideal laptop recommendations? Message-ID: <200305081659.JAA27876@mina.soco.agilent.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 08 May 2003 09:53:23 PDT." <20030508165323.E90BA5D04@ptavv.es.net>
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"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote:
> For some period after you buy a ThinkPad (1 year?) IBM has shipped the
> CD free on request. IF YOU GET A THINKPAD, ALWAYS REQUEST THIS!
Yes, definitely. When I did this (a week or two after getting my
Thinkpad), the support guy told me the limit was "30 days". I don't
think it's "1 year".
> > * With 5.0-RELEASE, ACPI is broken. I haven't tried the latest -current
> > with the recent ACPI updates, however, although I am using the latest
> > IBM A31 BIOS.
> >
> Still broken, as far as I can tell, but getting closer.
Darn. Thanks for the info.
> Nope. Still broken. This is common to all ATI Radeon Mobility M7 systems
> from any vendor. You can recover the display by switching to a vty,
> turning the display off and turning it back on and switching back to X.
Double darn.
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Darryl Okahata
darrylo@soco.agilent.com
http://www.soco.agilent.com/~darrylo/
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