IdeaPad Y580 Laptop - 59359513 - Dawn Gray

[Warren Block]

On Sat, 1 Dec 2012, Eitan Adler wrote:

> Does anyone have any comments on the following:
>
> - is it a good FreeBSD development laptop?
> - is wireless supported by FreeBSD?
> - what about graphics / X ?
> - suspend/resume?

Some BIOS concerns:

Some Lenovo/Thinkpad BIOS implementations whitelist wireless cards, only 
working with "approved" wireless cards.  That also makes it more 
difficult and expensive to replace the included card with an Atheros.

Can the NVidia graphics be disabled in the BIOS so the Intel graphics 
can be used alone?

Thinkpad 420/520 did not want to boot from GPT disks.  The BIOS was 
probably at fault, misidentifying GPT partitioning.  That may have been 
fixed by now.