Re: Can I use NetBSD as a desktop system?

[Riccardo Mottola <riccardo.mottola%libero.it@localhost>]

Hi,

Chavdar Ivanov wrote:
> On my T61p even the suspend key works (-current amd64). Now, only if 
> the screen wasn't blank with nouveau... 

my other NetBSD laptop is the trusty T30, where sleep works a little 
better than on the R51 and on the HP 620.

Pressing the sleep button does this.
I see this on screen:


acpi0: entering state S3
Flushing disk caches: 39 24 done

then the screen turns empty (but not black: I mean no text, but the 
light remains on)
Disk spins down and fan goes off.

The moon Led however lights up! The computer is not totally at sleep

I also notice that the "bus LED" that thinkpads have that says you can 
remove the DVD from the module, remains on... I don't remember if this 
happened with windows (don't have it anymore) but I don't feel this as 
correct, I will try to veriy on other thinkpads with other OSs.


If I hit the powerbutton, the machine comes back to life, it sort comes 
back, I can type, but e.g. wireless remains dead because putting it up 
again says:

iwi0: timeout waiting for firmware initialization to complete
iwi0: could not load boot firmware
iwi0: cannot assign link-local address


Riccardo