Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1999 18:14:13 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Andrzej Bialecki <abial@nask.pl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ThinkPad Message-ID: <199903070214.SAA01052@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Mar 1999 22:56:03 %2B0100." <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9903022249160.11539-100000@korin.warman.org.pl>
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To start with, does it have more than 64M of memory? At least some of the stinkpads have problems with our speculative memory probes. > My new employer provided me with a brand new ThinkPad 770X. Of course the > first thing I tried was to boot FreeBSD on it. No luck :( > > The symptoms are as follows: sometime during the probing, or even later if > I'm active enough pressing keys (see below) the machine hangs, and never > recovers. I suspect it's somehow related to energy saving features - > perhaps it just decides to go to sleep? Anyway, after this I'm totally > unable to reboot it. The funny thing is that ThinkPad doesn't have the > reset button, so I have to pull out the battery in order to reboot it... > :-) > > Perhaps someone already went through this, and can give me a hint... TIA. > Oh, BTW - the BIOS setup on this really sucks, it's a winblows oriented > dummy icons which really don't give you any control over the details. > > Andrzej Bialecki > > -------------------- ++-------++ ------------------------------------- > <abial@nask.pl> ||PicoBSD|| FreeBSD in your pocket? Go and see: > Research & Academic |+-------+| "Small & Embedded FreeBSD" > Network in Poland | |TT~~~| | http://www.freebsd.org/~picobsd/ > -------------------- ~-+==---+-+ ------------------------------------- > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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