i) Questions on IBM Thinkpad A22m. ii) Plus: Thinkpad R40e additional words

[Marco Wertejuk]

| I found someone selling a Thinkpad A22m and now the question is:
| 
| Do you have any experience with it running FreeBSD Unix?

I had an A22m 900 MHz model with 15" 1400x1050 Display and can't
remember any serious problems beside those:
 
 [1] When using ACPI, the notebook powered on ~5 minutes after
        shutdown (no matter if I use -p or push the power button)
        that actually broke this laptop for me because it overheated.
        APM worked fine.
 [2] There were some graphic card whoes, when there's heavy activity
        on the screen (i.e. a fast scrolling terminal) pixels flickered
        near the scrolling area.
        This also happened with mplayer in window mode, fullscreen
        hadn't any problems.
 [3] xfree and bios protection for system or hdd (and APM)
        When using HDD or system protection (bios option) and
        suspending the laptop while in X, you won't see the small
        logo from the bios which tell's you to enter the password.
        The screen either remained black until the correct password
        was entered or the small logo was broken and just a pixel mess.

| This questions also includes questions about:
| 
| - If the onboard ethernet will be supported. (I will ask the seller for it's
| chipset ... or at least more details on this)

It used to be an intel chipset card (fxp) driver and isn't really
onboard, it's mini-pci and replaceable.

| - If this (to me) mysthic "SpeedStep" CPU (actually it's a PIII with 1 GHz)
| is fully supported. (I will checkout the hardware faq later this day)

The bios lowers the CPU Speed, no matter what OS you're using.
When using ACPI you can control speedstep with FreeBSD by setting
hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_max: 8
hw.acpi.cpu.throttle_state: 8
to approriate values.

| - Everything fine with it?

See above.

| - Did you made and experience with it, using it, running FreeBSD?

Most of the time I was running current but stable worked fine too.
As other people mentioned before, try to test the notebook
regarding these issues.

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Marco Wertejuk - mwcis.com
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