From owner-freebsd-mobile Tue Oct 6 10:07:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28103 for freebsd-mobile-outgoing; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:07:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thrush.omix.com (thrush.omix.com [206.40.77.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA28079 for ; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:06:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@thrush.omix.com) Received: (from lists@localhost) by thrush.omix.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA28177; Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:03:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists) Message-Id: <199810061703.KAA28177@thrush.omix.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD on ThinkPad 600 In-Reply-To: <19981001161900.15155@hackerz.org> from Charles Quarri at "Oct 1, 98 04:19:00 pm" To: randy@hackerz.org (Charles Quarri) Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 10:03:27 -0700 (PDT) Cc: oddbjorn@oddbjorn.bdc.no, freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG From: zenin@archive.rhps.org (Zenin) Organization: Bawdy Caste -- Rocky Horror, South San Francisco Bay X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Charles Quarri wrote: > Quoting Oddbjorn Steffensen (oddbjorn@oddbjorn.bdc.no): > > I'm considering buying a ThinkPad 600 to run FreeBSD on, and search > > freebsd-mobile for experiences with the machine. I've had mine for a few months now. Quite simply I love it! >snip< > I can't get a few things to work, such as the WaveModem (I have seen a lot > of "this is completely hopeless" messages on this topic), Yep. I didn't even bother trying as I knew it wasn't going to work. -Besides, I wanted a cel modem anyway. :-) > and the built-in > sound card (I have to be able to play my mp3 and get sound in enlightenment). > I still only have PAO-2.2.6 installed on it, so that may be some of my > problem. I haven't installed PAO yet, but I got the sound to work easily. According to IBM's web site, it's a Sound Blaster card/chipset, so I just configured sb0 and sbxvi0. I'm not sure which one it works on, but it works so I don't particularly care. :-) I've also configured sbmidi0, but I haven't tried it yet. > A last note, the laptop does use the NeoMagic chip set. I ended up spending > the money for AccerleratedX (I have used it before, and it is fairly nice), > but this going to change with the next release of Xfree86. Ditto. Actually, I'm quite pleased with AcceleratedX. When I got the copy for my TP600, they gave me a %50 discount on a copy for my desktop. It is noticeably faster then XFree86 (ATI Mach64). -- -Zenin (zenin@archive.rhps.org) From The Blue Camel we learn: BSD: A psychoactive drug, popular in the 80s, probably developed at UC Berkeley or thereabouts. Similar in many ways to the prescription-only medication called "System V", but infinitely more useful. (Or, at least, more fun.) The full chemical name is "Berkeley Standard Distribution". To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message