Hello!
I have a park of Lenovos X61 Tablet and T61. They are predecessors of
T400s. I use XFCE4.
You need 8 GB RAM for comfortable operation. Internet mentions that it's
possible. 4GB is too small.
According to my experience the GUI problems usually lie in video driver
and not the window manager, so the tuning process begins with vesa
driver. It works slowly, sometimes it gives low resolution but it at
least somehow works almost always.
Also you should expect some (or lot of) troubles from KMS driver that is
required by T400s Intel GMA video driver. I have wasted some $1000 on
similar problems with Radeon. For Geforce I needed drivers version 370.
Hope it helps.
And BTW. According to my experience FreeBSD does not react to power
button. No idea why.
Anatoly
On 1/18/25 01:42, bob prohaska wrote:
I've started playing with an old Lenovo T400s laptop using
FreeBSD-current. The initial install worked perfectly on an
external USB drive.
Can anybody suggest a suitable X11-wm to try on this quite
elderly laptop? LXQT failed with a core dump, next I'll try
twm while hoping for a better suggestion.
Thanks for reading,
bob prohaska