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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
> 
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