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From: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Problems w/FreeBSD on Thinkpad 560
Date: 9 Apr 1997 16:51:59 GMT
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[ Emailed to poster as suggested as well ]

According to Matt Mosley <mattm@black-cat.igloo.org>:
>Hi.  I'm having some really irritating problems with FreeBSD 2.2.1 on an IBM
>Thinkpad 560.  Hopefully someone out there has experience with FreeBSD on one
>of these things and can help.
>
>The box:  it's a Thinkpad 560, type 2640-50A.  It has the smaller (11.3", I
>think) screen, a TGUI video adapter with 1MB of RAM, 24MB of memory onboard,
>2.2GB disk, etc.

Wow, I didn't think they came with a 2.2GB disk.  My boss will be jealous. :)

>First of all, I can't for the life of me make XFree86 work properly with the
>display.

IBM uses a non-standard modification to the standard display so that it
requires a BIOS call to work 'normally'.  I have this in my bookmarks
which supposedly has links and suggestions on how to get things working,
but if I remember right it'll break 'normal' text mode if you use their
patches, which is the reason I gave up on trying to get it working on my
755CX.

http://www.yy.cs.keio.ac.jp:81/contrib/sanpei/how2800x600.html

(The link was down when I tried it).

>with 256 colors, which is virtually useless.  Microsoft Windows came installed
>on the damn thing and it worked just fine in 800x600 mode, and I know the
>box supports 16 bit graphics as well.

That's because Windows has access to the BIOS, and 'Real' OS's don't
because of performance issues.




Nate

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