FreeBSD on the Lenovo Thinkpad X60

[James O'Gorman]

Hi Michael,

Michael Widerkrantz wrote:
> I have written a text on how I installed FreeBSD 6.1 (and NetBSD and
> Ubuntu GNU/Linux) on a Thinkpad X60 with a PXE network install. Perhaps
> it can be of use for someone else besides me.
> 
>   http://hack.org/mc/freebsd-x60.html

Good article.

Since you mention third-party patches, you might want to mention
Kazuhiro Kondou's Xorg patch to add proper i915 support. See:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2006-May/008324.html

> If someone can explain the strange network latency I see on em(4),
> that would be very nice. Perhaps I should take that on net-?

I saw some latency on the Ethernet interface too.

James