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From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net>
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"Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> wrote in message
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> > From: "Jesse D. Guardiani" <jesse@wingnet.net>
> > Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 18:40:17 -0400
> > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org

<snip>

> Jesse,
>
> Yes. There are a number of problems that are fixed in more recent BIOSes
> from IBM, especially the APM stuff works much better with a recent
> BIOS. I have seen no regression with the latest BIOS, but YMMV.

Yeah. My Mileage Has Varied. BIOS update went without a hitch, but after
updating my ATI Mobility Radeon drivers opengl no longer works under WXP.
And that really puts me in a bit of a pickle since DirectX support has never
worked well either.

I wish I could talk to IBM about it, but they won't even let me send them a
message without having a current warranty on my laptop.

Oh well. I need to get on with the FreeBSD/WXP dual boot install anyway. I
hate WXP.


<snip>