Dear crowd, just resumed my work on i386-laptop.html after vacation, and I noticed we don't have any reports on the IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad X41. Does anyone out there have this machine running under OpenBSD? Please report. Best, -- -- Alexander "grunk" von Gernler PGP key 0xEBC27515 http://www.de.openbsd.org/ -- Free, functional, secure
purchased a thinkpad x31 (they were on special earlier this month) and have been exceedingly happy with it. bonuses: small, fast (P4m 1.4), long battery life so far (around 3h, have the super battery coming my way soon), and all the usual x series goodness. had to modify my startx routine to force 24 bpp color depth (see attached XF86Config). i use this alias now to make it work: alias startx='startx -- -depth 32' also had it reccomended to me to enable writecacheenable via atactl, so i added this to rc.securelevel: echo -n 'setting wd0 parameters with atactl: ' atactl wd0 writecacheenable && echo -n 'writecacheenable ' probably doesn't need to be there, but i was hoping to make use of atactl wd0 acousticset ... to improve battery life. however, i get errors on trying to do that. disklabel reports an IC25N040ATCS04-0|ESDI/IDE disk ... any advice on that would be appreciated. anyhow, this list has been very slow, figured i would chime in with some openbsd current on x31 notes. reportedly 3.3-release has some special requirements for this model, maybe someone can chime in with notes. all the best, ___________________________ jose nazario, ph.d. jose <at> monkey.org http://monkey.org/~jose/(Continue reading)
Hi all, has anyone out there had any length of time using OpenBSD on a laptop as a development workstation? I'm hoping to see GNUstep running on OpenBSD soon, and I'd like to make sure the platform as a whole is a good one for development. I've been using FreeBSD for a few years now, but this would be my first serious development work on *nix, besides hardware drivers for FreeBSD. jonathon
Thanks to help from "Jordi" and Todd Miller, I have finally gotten PCMCIA wi0 (Linksys WPC11) working on my Vaio R505TE. The exact behavior is slightly shrouded in mystery. It appears that the BIOS/chipset/pcic on this thing actually hold a certain amount of state (in NVRAM?) across system boots. So, the last OS you booted might influence how a reboot behaves, even if power is completely removed betwixt. The apparent recipe for success is this: - boot using the PCMCIA CD-ROM with a El Torito boot floppy image - the CD is not available to OpenBSD, so just do a network install - after the install, power the laptop off - insert wi0 - power on - boot -c - change pcic0 to 0xcc000 size 0xc000 - quit After this, things appear to work OK. Hot-plugging PCMCIA cards still does not function; wi0 is recognized but fails to initialize. APM suspend is totally broken (the laptop appears to suspend, and the screen blanks, but the fan never stops spinning and the power switch is inoperative; the only way to recover is to remove the battery). "halt -p" works fine. external USB devices work (I've tried a CF adapter, a USB flash disk, and a Griffin iMic) but the one time I tried a Memory Stick it failed. As I don't have any Memory Stick media, I cannot do much testing. The onboard fxp0 works great. The i815 video works fine. The VGA connector works *if* the monitor is hooked up at power-on (the BIOS appears to turn it on); I haven't found a method to(Continue reading)
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