Update - Thinkpad Z60M

[victoria]

Hi!

I have a Thinkpad Z60t but not with titanium cover :( 
I have got freebsd 6.1 installed on it and all devices was successfully
found. Except sound and when i tried opensound drivers and it just make
kernel panics on boot. So without any success and time i reinstall it
and install ubuntu dapper. It found all and works perfect. 
But i still want t go back to freebsd. So i have a question: have you
get a problem with sound while installing freebsd?

Thanks!

Victoria


On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 21:30 +1000, Norberto Meijome wrote:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 08:15:50 -0800
> "Kevin Oberman" <oberman at es.net> wrote:ebs
> 
> > > Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 01:54:00 +1100
> > > From: Norberto Meijome <freebsd at meijome.net>
> > > Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile at freebsd.org
> > > 
> > > hi there,
> > > looking into this laptop - i wanted to know if these components are
> > > supported (and whether there are any caveats):
> 
> Well, i got the (lenovo|ibm) Thinkpad z60m last week, had some time to
> play with it, finished transferring my data from the Toshiba Tecra A2
> to it and tweaking it a bit. for those who care, it's the 253044M
> model, with the titanium cover.
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > - wireless card: Intel PRO/Wireless 2915ABG ( is this the iwi driver
> > > too?)
> > 
> > Atheros. Mine works very well (in a T43). Add if_ath_load to
> > /boot/loader.conf.
> > 
> 
> Actually, it's  an if_iwi - works out of the box, no problems thus far.
> 
> 
> > > 
> > > - Video card: 128MB ATI RADEON X600
> > 
> > No problems unless you use DRI. I believe the support for this is
> > still in progress.
> 
> Yup, cannot resume (well, CAN but cannot use the laptop
> afterwards :-D ) if suspending FROM the virtual console used by X if I
> have DRI enabled. I removed the DRI option from xorg.conf and:
>  - I can resume with no other problem than some desktop
> background corruption (XFCE4.2.3.1) , which is fixed by issuing a
> xfdesktop -reload. 
>  - radeon.ko and drm.ko are NOT loaded ( I still need to understand the
> difference between drm and dri...)
>  - graphics perfomance has dropped (As expected), from about 750+ in
> glxgears to 220 approx.
> 
> If I really need DRI, the alternative would be to switch to text
> console before suspending - i'm pretty sure it works fine in this case.
> 
> Also, in the Toshiba, I had to set this knob :
> 
> hw.syscons.sc_no_suspend_vtswitch
> 
> to 1. This makes bad things happen on the z60m, so it's back to 0.
> 
> Powerd seems to be working fine too.
> 
> 
> > You probably want to install radeontool and add it
> > to your rc.suspend and rc.resume scripts.
> > 
> > Something like:
> > if [ -x /usr/local/bin/radeontool ]; then
> >     /usr/local/bin/radeontool light off
> >     /usr/local/bin/radeontool dac off
> > fi
> > 
> 
> thanks for this, i;ll give it a try soon.
> 
> > You may want to run the DAC off when running on battery, too, to save
> > a little power. 
> > 
> > Also, put acpi_ibm_load into /boo/loader.conf and take a look at
> > 'sysctl dev.acpi_ibm'.
> 
> yup, all fine there.
> 
> Also, I had to remove 
> device apic
> 
> from my kernel config - else resume would fail in every single case
> (text mode so I would assume DRI has nothing to do).
> 
> About to try to OSS sound drivers. 
> 
> - The fingerprint scanner is detected but i doubt it'll be useful (definitely not enabling the bios option to rely on the info stored in this little device for booting up :) )
> 
> - Bluetooth comes up as ugen0, and it gets switched on/off with Fn-F5, whilst both wifi and b-tooth are affected by the physical switch at the front of the laptop.
> 
> IRDA is detected but i havent played with it yet.
> 
> Battery life : i havent had much chance to test it yet, but it seems to hover around the 4 1/2 hours at 95%... not sure how it'll perform under normal use yet.
> 
> 
> If anyone wants any other info, just ask away :)
> 
> thanks for all your suggestions / comments
> 
> Best,
> Beto
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