On Monday 29 December 2008 12:09:25 Jonathan Thornburg wrote: > Hi, > > In <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=123005920715662&w=1>, > Steve Andre' wrote > > > Most if not all T series are good choices. Newer and faster, but cost > > more. A 1.6G P mobile can be had for $400 - $500; possibly less these > > days. The T43 can be a little weird with disks, coming up with a bios > > error message at boot time for certain disks, but otherwise works. > > > > The T60p is a great machine, and has complete support (minus winmodem) > > However, in <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=123004619127711&w=1>, > Dan Harnett wrote > > > You should note, none of the newer ThinkPad machines support standby, > > suspend, or hibernation under OpenBSD. I don't know if that is > > important to you. The X3x/X4x/R5x/T4x series machines would be the most > > recent ThinkPads to support that at this time. > > Ouch! I have run OpenBSD on a T43 and two T41p-s for several years > with excellent results (including working APM & suspend-to-RAM). > I'm currently shopping for a replacement (used/reconditioned) > Thinkpad following a back-to-back pair of T41p screen failures :(. > Given my problems with gdb stack tracebacks on i386 gcc4 executables > <http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-ports&m=123052182305592&w=1>, I had > hoped to move to an amd64 model, but lack of suspend-to-RAM would > be a killer. > > So... can anyone with a {T60,T60p,T61,T61p} clarify specifically > * your exact IBM model number? > * whether it's APM or ACPI? > * whether it's i386 or amd64? > * what OpenBSD version you're using? > * whether suspend-to-RAM works? > > Thanks 1L<<20, ciao,
I had a T60p. The T61 has an nvidia video chip so I never investigated them for OpenBSD. Any T60p model will work; I'm pretty sure mine as a 8741-C5U. I used it in i386 mode, and it has acpi so I just shut it down when moving around. Yes, being able to suspend is better, but really how much time does it cost to turn it back on? I'd like that ability on my new W500 but I can wait. --STeve Andre'
