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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!insync!news.azstarnet.com!news.sprintlink.net!news-ana-7.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!nate From: nate@see.my.signature (Nate Williams) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: FreeBSD (current) good for Laptops? Date: 18 Nov 1996 16:44:50 GMT Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 31 Message-ID: <56q3q2$9l3@helena.MT.net> References: <87pw1jarx5.fsf@plm.xs4all.nl> <m2wwvocxus.fsf@golfgod.raleigh.ibm.com> <56m5qf$1vo@asstdc.scgt.oz.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com In article <56m5qf$1vo@asstdc.scgt.oz.au>, michael butler <imb@asstdc.com.au> wrote: >Thomas Evans (tjevans@raleigh.ibm.com) wrote: > >: Some laptops (IBM thinkpads in particular) don't work with the default >: keyboard driver in freebsd, Linux runs great. Heard problem in freebsd >: will be fixed next release... > >Interesting .. I've been running FreeBSD on my 560 since June without any >"adjustments" of this nature, Newer ThinkPad's are 'more' standard, and don't require the hacks. I'm not sure why Linux's console driver doesn't require the hack, but there bootblocks require a hack to work on older ThinkPad's that FreeBSD doesn't need. In any case, as soon as UserConfig gets working again it'll no longer be a problem with FreeBSD. It should work out of the box with all ThinkPad's with a simple change in UserConfig to let the console driver know that the machine is a ThinkPad. Nate -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations nate@trout.mt.sri.com | Loving life in God's country, the great state of work #: (406) 449-7662 | Montana (all the crazies are now in jail 'cept us home #: (406) 443-7063 | natives). - Fly fishing fanatic!