How's current lately for laptops? (was Two questions on Thinkpad T41)

[Bruce M Simpson]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2004 at 08:35:13PM -0400, Dan Langille wrote:
> Bruce: I think this answers my question.  My ThinkPad T41 is now in 
> the shop getting a new system board (I hope).  When it returns, I was 
> considering running -CURRENT on it rather than 5.2.1-RELEASE.  Your 
> experience above has encouraged me to try it.  I'll cvsup to the 
> above date and let you know how it goes.... when I get it back.

It's quite possible this could be down to a motherboard revision or a
bad batch of T41s.  So far tests in this area have proven inconclusive.
This is a shot in the dark.

I suggest running vpddecode (from ports/sysutils/dmidecode) as root to
determine what the motherboard serial numbers are.

> On a side note Bruce: Do you buildworld on your laptop or another 
> box?

My buildworld took place on kimchi which is my local FreeBSD cvs mirror and
main development machine. It is an AMD 1.1Ghz Thunderbird, with a Soyo
K7V Dragon+ mainboard and 512MB DDR.

I generally do this for speed (the disks in my CVS machine are much faster)
and to have traceability with regards to kernel version and my own commits.

BMS