Re: Lenovo Thinkpad t61p and FreeBSD?

On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:51:05AM -0400, Michael C Voorhis wrote:

Has anyone tried 7.0-Stable on a Thinkpad t61p. I've been using one
for a few weeks and have had many problems, after several event-free
years on a t42.

My issues are mainly ACPI related--consistent lockups trying to
suspend; hangs during shutdown. Have updated the BIOS and I'm going
through the list of items in the acpi-debugging list, in the handbook.

I'm also having issues with the DVD reader on the machine. I'm mainly
curious to know if anyone else is having these problems,

Here's what I'm aware of. Apologies on some of these links; some of the
participants do not use decent mail clients that utilise thread
referencing headers.

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2007-October/037652.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-January/039452.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-March/041509.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-April/041794.html

My co-worker runs Kubuntu Linux on his T60p, and it works great. Very
decent ACPI support, with full driver support (including H/W monitoring
and adjustments). I was quite impressed.

... and if anyone has comments about the hardware in general.

Based on my experiences with my workplace-provided T60p, it's safe to
say I'll never recommend a Lenovo product. The temperatures of these
laptops are absolutely insane, supported by an incredibly loud fan. I'm
not interested in a product that can have a GPU reaching temperatures of
almost 70C **while idling**.

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