Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2004 20:37:17 +0100 From: Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com> To: Andreas Totlis <usenet@esct.org>, freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: T40p - good choice for running FBSD? Message-ID: <200401122037.17836.peter.schuller@infidyne.com> In-Reply-To: <20040111195849.GP19309@baldur.asgard> References: <20040111195849.GP19309@baldur.asgard>
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Hello, > I've look at a new laptop and the IBM T40p looks like nice. > After searching in this list, many employees favorite the IBM brand. > Is there any reason why I don't buy a T40p(any experience aside from > Lukas Ertl's laptop list)? > It looks like the same as T40. How contented the T40p owner? The p has a higher resolution IIRC; sligtly higher cpu frequency and built-in bluetooth by default. Also a different wireless chipset IIRC, but not sure. As for buying or not... there are a few rough edges but overall I'm quite happy with FreeBSD 5 on my T40p. I have put some notes up here that you might find worth reading: http://www.scode.org/freebsdt40p.html Short summary of things that dont quite work (though I may be forgetting something): * Having an extra battery in the "ultra bay" (or something; don't remember what they call it) results in hangs during shutdown and just about any kind of ACPI event coming from the hardware (swithing keyboard LEDs on/off etc). This was on CURRENT a while back though; it may be fixed by now. * Suspend/resume never did work right for me with ACPI, though its working now with APM given that (1) you're not in X (though X may be running on another VC) and (2) a patched em0 driver to prevent it from breaking after a resume. Sometimes you can get hangs on resume, but I think it has something to do with disc activity. Running with APM turned on, but apmd turned *off*, I don't have a problem in practice. * Bluetooth was wokring fine for me up until recently. Not sure where the problem lies though, so it may still be working and its just a configuration issue. I haven't had time to look at it in a while. Otherwise I think things are working fine. No problems with the wireless card (assuming 5.1+ CURRENT or 5.2 since the atheros driver is very new), cd burner works fine, X works fine (though no AGP)... -- / Peter Schuller, InfiDyne Technologies HB PGP userID: 0xE9758B7D or 'Peter Schuller <peter.schuller@infidyne.com>' Key retrieval: Send an E-Mail to getpgpkey@scode.org E-Mail: peter.schuller@infidyne.com Web: http://www.scode.org
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