Buying a laptop

[Adrian Chadd]

Someone else needs to MFC it, sorry :(

-a


On 2 February 2015 at 10:09, Kevin Oberman <rkoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:32 AM, Joseph Mingrone <jrm at ftfl.ca> wrote:
>
>> I also have had mostly positive experience with many Thinkpads.  Note I
>> said Thinkpads and not Lenovos.
>>
>> Erich Dollansky <erichsfreebsdlist at alogt.com> writes:
>> > I use an Lenovo X220 with 10.1 since nearly three years.
>>
>> I also have an X220, running a recent 10-STABLE.  Pretty much everything
>> works including wireless with the Intel Centrino Advanced-N
>> 6205 and suspend and resume.  I haven't figured out how to control the
>> brightness and there is an annoying BIOS (bug/feature).  You can't
>> legacy boot from a GPT-partitioned disk without UEFI.
>>
>> Joseph
>
>
> Head was recently fixed so that brightness now works fine. The patch
> applies cleanly to 10-stable (and 10.1) if you want to try it. My T520 has
> had working brightness since. Yes, it works with the Fn+HOME and Fn+END
> keys that are marked as brightness up and down on the keyboard. The patch
> is to the ACPI code in dev/drm2/i915.intel_opregion.c, though small changes
> were made to a couple of other files to enable access to the new code,
>
> It's in head as r270516 and Adrian has thus far not MFCed to 10-STABLE. If
> it works for you, you might let him know that you would like to see it done.
> --
> Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer, Retired
> E-mail: rkoberman at gmail.com
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