Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 11:53:28 -0500 From: Pierre-Luc Drouin <pldrouin@pldrouin.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Which Lenovo Laptop? Message-ID: <CANT0rctw5bcP1-1kNNZCZNxeRfVh1KbaRmywoGebZ921kv38eA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4EE0E96C.8090406@locolomo.org> References: <CANT0rct0-4wB1FHyh6puNpCsF7XS-yJC3J6=Wo==n4vY_-vzuA@mail.gmail.com> <4EE0E96C.8090406@locolomo.org>
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On Thu, Dec 8, 2011 at 11:44 AM, Erik N=F8rgaard <norgaard@locolomo.org> wr= ote: > On 08/12/2011 15:01, Pierre-Luc Drouin wrote: > >> so which current 14" Lenovo laptop is the best for FreeBSD >> compatibility right now? Is it the T420 with the Nvidia card (Nvidia >> card forced in the BIOS)? Sleep modes work with the T420, right? And I >> guess Intel Wi-Fi cards are the most supported ones, right? > > > Hi: I got an E520 and tried to install 90RC2 on it, ACPI problems with > thermal zone 0 (-273). I got the system installed awkardly: the installer > was useless as the console would fill with acpi error messages. Tried to > boot live and run sysinstall on a different console but wouldn't install. > Eventually I did everything manually. > > But then trying buildworld got the system hanging without any error messa= ge > probably due to overheating. > > So, the final resort was to install linux .. that suck. :( > > I don't know the other series. Good luck and let me know. > > BR, Erik > -- > >From what I read in the past I think the T series has more support than the other series, but maybe I am wrong. After the options that are offered to me, it seems that the T series model I could get with a Nvidia chipset would be the T520 with the i7 2630QM CPU and the Intel 5205 wireless card. From what I have read, the wireless card should work fine on FreeBSD, but I have read that some people had problems in October with the BIOS and GPT. I assume these problems do not apply with the MBR? WHat about the sleep modes with the T520? Does suspend to RAM and suspend to disk works? Thanks!
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