Thinkpad T40 experience

[Lukas Ertl]

On Sat, 15 Nov 2003, Peter Schuller wrote:

> > this week my new Thinkpad T40 arrived and I thought I let you know how it
> > works with FreeBSD.
>
> I've been running FreeBSD on a T40p, which is almost the same, for a while. I
> have run into some issues that it seems you don't have. Would you mind
> sending me a copy of your kernel configuration?

You can find it at <http://mailbox.univie.ac.at/~le/thinkpadt40/KORBEN>.

> > Suprisingly, ACPI also works fine, even S3 suspend does what it should do.
>
> Even S1-S2? On my system, only S3-S5 is supported.

No, my system has no S1 or S2 support, but I don't care about these.

> USB dies on my system too, but a resume also has the effect that the system is
> behaving like it's under tremedous load. Typing characters at the console
> feels like I'm ssh:ing over a variable-speed modem :) This makes
> suspend/resume unusable. Did you have to do anything in order for
> suspend/resume to work completely?

Not really.  As I said, I modified my DSDT, but only as far as make it
compile cleanly with iasl.

regards,
le

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