Date: Sun, 19 Dec 2004 11:44:14 +1100 (EST) From: Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpad R31 - use 4.10 or 5.3? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0412191140001.19911@dave.horsfall.org> In-Reply-To: <41C40910.4080001@laverenz.de> References: <Pine.BSI.4.61.0412182055500.17965@dave.horsfall.org> <41C40910.4080001@laverenz.de>
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On Sat, 18 Dec 2004, Uwe Laverenz wrote: > You should use 5.3, it will run much better on your ThinkPad, it not > only supports Cardbus but also has support for ACPI, which I think is > quite necessary on a notebook. I downloaded the 5.3 mini-install ISO and tried it out, and yes, it "finds" a lot more things. ACPI is recognised, an "unknown card" on PCI0 turned out to be the video chip (!), and a lot more (CardBus, power switch (?), lid switch (?)) etc. So, 5.3 is the way to go. Thanks! -- Dave
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