From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 13 19:37:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from rgate.ricochet.net (rgate1.ricochet.net [204.179.143.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE6514E30 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 19:37:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from enkhyl@scient.com) Received: from mg131-045.ricochet.net (mg131-045.ricochet.net [204.179.131.45]) by rgate.ricochet.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA05735 for ; Sat, 13 Mar 1999 21:37:02 -0600 (CST) Date: Sat, 13 Mar 1999 19:35:51 -0800 (PST) From: Christopher Nielsen X-Sender: enkhyl@ender.sf.scient.com Reply-To: Christopher Nielsen To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD and ThinkPad In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Andrzej Bialecki wrote: > On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Justin T. Gibbs wrote: > > > In article you wrote: > > > > > > I still experience total freezes when accessing sio0. The same goes for > > > 'pnpinfo' - machine freezes completely, and only hard reboot helps. > > > > Under DOS or Win9X, run: > > > > PS2 SERA enable > > PS2 SERA 1 > > > > The serial port should work correctly under FreeBSD after that. > > Ah.. Ok, thanks, I'll try this. > > Andrzej Bialecki I've recently been given a ThinkPad 770X, and I've been wrestling with it just the same. I think I finally found a stable kernel config for -stable. The key seems to have been disabling syscons in favor of pcvt. Once I did that, it stopped randomly hanging and crashing. I still need to run some stress tests. I'll report more as I find out more info. -- Christopher Nielsen Scient: The eBusiness Systems Innovator cnielsen@scient.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message