On Sat, Jan 18, 2025 at 02:29:59AM +0800, Thor Ablestar wrote: > 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. > That may be an important detail, this machine has only 4GB. It can be upgraded to 8, but I want to test it a little more first.
In the meantime problems with the wifi and hard disk have emerged, so those have to be tested first. > 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. Thanks to everyone for the guidance! bob prohaska
