From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 9 18:28:15 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 204A016A402 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 18:28:15 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk (host-84-9-223-82.bulldogdsl.com [84.9.223.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E414E43D60 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 18:28:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from howells@kde.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C4A5FD052 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 19:28:13 +0100 (BST) Received: from mail.devrandom.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (mail.devrandom.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 97798-02 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 19:28:07 +0100 (BST) Received: from [192.168.1.175] (unknown [192.168.1.175]) by mail.devrandom.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DD4AFD051 for ; Tue, 9 May 2006 19:28:07 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <4460DF35.7010805@kde.org> Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 19:28:05 +0100 From: Chris Howells User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <4460DC22.6060803@netinertia.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4460DC22.6060803@netinertia.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at devrandom.org.uk Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 on the ThinkPad X60s X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 18:28:15 -0000 James O'Gorman wrote: > I just got my ThinkPad X60s (model 17045LG) and thought I'd post my > results so people know what works and what doesn't. Thanks for the post; I'm currently running Linux on mine, mainly due to the lack of wireless. > * Dual-core CPU Does CPU speed scaling work with both cores? Also, does sound work? > It only works with >6.0 though. I tried installing 6.0-RELEASE and > sysinstall couldn't even see the hard disk. 6.1-RC2 had no problem though. I guess the SATA controller is quite new. > Wireless does not, of course, work, as it's the Intel 3945ABG chip. > Can't even get it working using if_ndis at the moment :-( Annoying. I might have a go myself. Have you got it switched on with the switch underneath? > Not sure about bluetooth at the moment as I've never actually set it up > in FreeBSD before anyway, so I might play with that. The Bluetooth is simply attached to USB bus (universal serial bus bus?), so it should work the same as pretty much any USB bluetooth device. > It also crashes when you try and suspend. Well, suspend works, but when > you come out of suspend everything goes boom. Unfortunately Linux is no better in this respect. > The system speaker is also stupidly loud by default. Enabling > acpi_ibm_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf gives access to the > dev.acpi_ibm.* sysctls, so you can sysctl dev.acpi_ibm.0.volume=1 :-) Useful to know.