From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Feb 2 18:35:38 2015 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 75BC4EFD for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ig0-x233.google.com (mail-ig0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:4001:c05::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3A6DDF0C for ; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:35:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-ig0-f179.google.com with SMTP id l13so18961950iga.0 for ; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:35:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type; bh=GLrVC+Ugw0+ETKmReVB8H7loaN+G8cwQiYzjTPjnUqI=; b=DWTiDtR3JsqFEa3bmQ5Ogf2gQFg3Cwwe1coRxnh5jUa2Jn1JqoR2J/nGYecGYRUE8J 4whNCwsxVRIJPsqUDH0WZr3w1uCf0o/iBBjxZHqiTfaW4Sxx2RwE7200iUeFnl39KAaZ xdECgNbMnN6oyuwCEfWjBzQ4zAih41n4kFHOyK4PLn4MECus4GTPPYtEu+3eWXR4ftqT pqVVLzQp3PCo9bi8XZYc7Mozd/mt+UO9N0EVKeeQhA4dC+Gsn5012pwd+u83A82ZOois AWX/eGcC15J7hExttLL5PXFcMUt4D55xUrEx9RP2CIPDcPpUPJ8LuGpsAQ2sS+YixPk5 ZwSw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.164.227 with SMTP id yt3mr13336162igb.32.1422902137693; Mon, 02 Feb 2015 10:35:37 -0800 (PST) Sender: adrian.chadd@gmail.com Received: by 10.36.17.7 with HTTP; Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:35:37 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <20150201113521.3c9bd5e4@B85M-HD3-0.alogt.com> <86lhkge640.fsf@gly.ftfl.ca> Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 10:35:37 -0800 X-Google-Sender-Auth: cQfimMmGQSm63qNGAtU-o2Y6cas Message-ID: Subject: Re: Buying a laptop From: Adrian Chadd To: Kevin Oberman Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Cc: Joseph Mingrone , "freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org" X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:35:38 -0000 Someone else needs to MFC it, sorry :( -a On 2 February 2015 at 10:09, Kevin Oberman wrote: > On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Joseph Mingrone wrote: > >> I also have had mostly positive experience with many Thinkpads. Note I >> said Thinkpads and not Lenovos. >> >> Erich Dollansky writes: >> > I use an Lenovo X220 with 10.1 since nearly three years. >> >> I also have an X220, running a recent 10-STABLE. Pretty much everything >> works including wireless with the Intel Centrino Advanced-N >> 6205 and suspend and resume. I haven't figured out how to control the >> brightness and there is an annoying BIOS (bug/feature). You can't >> legacy boot from a GPT-partitioned disk without UEFI. >> >> Joseph > > > Head was recently fixed so that brightness now works fine. The patch > applies cleanly to 10-stable (and 10.1) if you want to try it. My T520 has > had working brightness since. Yes, it works with the Fn+HOME and Fn+END > keys that are marked as brightness up and down on the keyboard. The patch > is to the ACPI code in dev/drm2/i915.intel_opregion.c, though small changes > were made to a couple of other files to enable access to the new code, > > It's in head as r270516 and Adrian has thus far not MFCed to 10-STABLE. If > it works for you, you might let him know that you would like to see it done. > -- > Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired > E-mail: rkoberman@gmail.com > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-mobile > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-mobile-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"