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

[Dan Langille]

On 9 Jul 2004 at 1:46, Bruce M Simpson wrote:

> 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.

My values:

# /usr/local/sbin/vpddecode
# vpddecode 2.4
BIOS Build ID: 1RETCDWW
Product Name: Thinkpad T40, T41, R50 or R50p
Box Serial Number: 99F0532
Motherboard Serial Number: J1UY74451G8
Machine Type/Model: 2378DMU

> > 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 cannot install -current on this laptop.  It crashes during the 
install phase.  See 
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/mid.cgi?40F64C6B.21603.B2F4F5E for 
details.

I'm going to try cvsup'ing to Jul  6 and building world from that.  
Perhaps I'll be able to get it to install and run that way.
-- 
Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/