Has anyone tried 7.0-Stable on a Thinkpad t61p. I've been using one
for a few weeks and have had many problems, after several event-free
years on a t42.
My issues are mainly ACPI related--consistent lockups trying to
suspend; hangs during shutdown. Have updated the BIOS and I'm going
through the list of items in the acpi-debugging list, in the handbook.
I'm also having issues with the DVD reader on the machine. I'm mainly
curious to know if anyone else is having these problems, and if anyone
has comments about the hardware in general.
Mike.
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:51:05AM -0400, Michael C Voorhis wrote:> > Has anyone tried 7.0-Stable on a Thinkpad t61p. I've been using one > for a few weeks and have had many problems, after several event-free > years on a t42. > > My issues are mainly ACPI related--consistent lockups trying to > suspend; hangs during shutdown. Have updated the BIOS and I'm going > through the list of items in the acpi-debugging list, in the handbook. > > I'm also having issues with the DVD reader on the machine. I'm mainly > curious to know if anyone else is having these problems,Here's what I'm aware of. Apologies on some of these links; some of the participants do not use decent mail clients that utilise thread referencing headers. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-October/037652.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039452.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-March/041509.html http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-April/041794.html My co-worker runs Kubuntu Linux on his T60p, and it works great. Very decent ACPI support, with full driver support (including H/W monitoring and adjustments). I was quite impressed.> ... and if anyone has comments about the hardware in general.Based on my experiences with my workplace-provided T60p, it's safe to say I'll never recommend a Lenovo product. The temperatures of these laptops are absolutely insane, supported by an incredibly loud fan. I'm not interested in a product that can have a GPU reaching temperatures of almost 70C **while idling**. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:51:05AM -0400, Michael C Voorhis wrote:> > Has anyone tried 7.0-Stable on a Thinkpad t61p. I've been using one > for a few weeks and have had many problems, after several event-free > years on a t42. > > My issues are mainly ACPI related--consistent lockups trying to > suspend; hangs during shutdown. Have updated the BIOS and I'm going > through the list of items in the acpi-debugging list, in the handbook.I see some lockups from time to time that I can't even get into DDB, but its very rare. Forget about suspend/resume - it doesn't work on any SMP machine. There were some patches posted on freebsd-acpi@ for suspend/resume SMP support, but they didn't work for me. I see no problems with shutdown (if I don't use mentioned patches). Other than that it works quite ok. Unfortunately because of nvidia driver limitation I can't run amd64 or PAE.> I'm also having issues with the DVD reader on the machine. I'm mainly > curious to know if anyone else is having these problems, and if anyone > has comments about the hardware in general.I haven't tried DVD too much, but it's the same reader I had in T43 I think. -- Pawel Jakub Dawidek http://www.wheel.pl pjd@FreeBSD.org http://www.FreeBSD.org FreeBSD committer Am I Evil? Yes, I Am! -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 187 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/attachments/20080603/193aed28/attachment.pgp