From owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 9 00:46:43 2004 Return-Path: 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 41C6716A4CE for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:46:43 +0000 (GMT) Received: from arginine.spc.org (arginine.spc.org [195.206.69.236]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B65143D46 for ; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 00:46:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bms@spc.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FD0465375; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:46:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from arginine.spc.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (arginine.spc.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 59651-02-8; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:46:39 +0100 (BST) Received: from empiric.dek.spc.org (82-147-17-88.dsl.uk.rapidplay.com [82.147.17.88]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by arginine.spc.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C4145651FA; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:46:39 +0100 (BST) Received: by empiric.dek.spc.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0E4A2613D; Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:46:39 +0100 (BST) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 2004 01:46:38 +0100 From: Bruce M Simpson To: Dan Langille Message-ID: <20040709004638.GO15368@empiric.dek.spc.org> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Langille , freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org References: <40EDB001.4311.E98BBCCC@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <40EDB001.4311.E98BBCCC@localhost> cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Subject: Re: How's current lately for laptops? (was Two questions on Thinkpad T41) X-BeenThere: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Mobile computing with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 09 Jul 2004 00:46:43 -0000 On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:35:13PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote: > Bruce: I think this answers my question. My ThinkPad T41 is now in > the shop getting a new system board (I hope). When it returns, I was > considering running -CURRENT on it rather than 5.2.1-RELEASE. Your > experience above has encouraged me to try it. I'll cvsup to the > above date and let you know how it goes.... when I get it back. It's quite possible this could be down to a motherboard revision or a bad batch of T41s. So far tests in this area have proven inconclusive. This is a shot in the dark. I suggest running vpddecode (from ports/sysutils/dmidecode) as root to determine what the motherboard serial numbers are. > On a side note Bruce: Do you buildworld on your laptop or another > box? My buildworld took place on kimchi which is my local FreeBSD cvs mirror and main development machine. It is an AMD 1.1Ghz Thunderbird, with a Soyo K7V Dragon+ mainboard and 512MB DDR. I generally do this for speed (the disks in my CVS machine are much faster) and to have traceability with regards to kernel version and my own commits. BMS