Subject: Re: BSD laptop
To: None <netbsd-help@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Widerkrantz <mc@hack.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 11/23/2006 16:35:46
David Chapman <dchapman@canwest.victoria.bc.ca> writes:
> Does anyone have any thoughts or experience with Lenovo or ThinkPad
> laptops?
I have a Lenovo Thinkpad X60s running FreeBSD 6.1. See:
http://hack.org/mc/freebsd-x60.html
Very short version:
Usable after PXE boot and installation: both cores are found, the
internal NIC usable but with strange latency, running X with VESA
fb. powerd works, but I don't get much battery life (4 cell slim
version), about 1.5 hour.
Doesn't work out of the box, but fixable with patches: Sound,
accelerated graphics.
Doesn't work at all or barely: suspend/resume, WLAN, SD reader,
fingerprint reader.
I tried installing NetBSD 3.0 as well, but it couldn't find any disks
to install to.