Hi,
Thomas Vetere wrote:
Yep, Claudio is correct. I have an old 600e and this is an official
statement from IBM support page long ago:
*"The ThinkPad 600E is ACPI ready. ACPI is not installed, but the system
hardware supports ACPI. While ACPI shows a great deal of promise for the
future, numero
Am 03.07.23 22:45 schrieb Claudio Jeker:
> Also keep in mind that laptops that old most often had bad or broken early
> ACPI implementations and it was better to not enable ACPI on those.
> Normally there was some BIOS knob to just use apm(4) which often worked
> much better.
Ah - very interesting
> Jul 3, 2023 14:47:57 Peter N. M. Hansteen :
>
>
> I had to look this up, since I had forgotten that Thinkpads used to come
> with model numbers not prefixed and/or postfixed with letters.
>
> I think one of several issues you will bump into is that the machine is
> almost a quarter century old
Yep, Claudio is correct. I have an old 600e and this is an official
statement from IBM support page long ago:
*"The ThinkPad 600E is ACPI ready. ACPI is not installed, but the system
hardware supports ACPI. While ACPI shows a great deal of promise for the
future, numerous problems affect the opera
Also keep in mind that laptops that old most often had bad or broken early
ACPI implementations and it was better to not enable ACPI on those.
Normally there was some BIOS knob to just use apm(4) which often worked
much better.
On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 08:58:45PM +0200, Daniele B. wrote:
> Thanks P
Thanks Peter, point got.
I also go ahead with very old hardware, kind of 10 years old minipc/pc
(including a Mac Pro).. and
we are in so good habits with our OpenBSD os that we tend to think no problem
will never arise.
Saddly enough we maybe forget what is really feasible..
-- Daniele Bonini
On Mon, Jul 03, 2023 at 01:36:10PM +0200, Michael Hekeler wrote:
> oh dear I have forgotten the model number - Sorry!
>
> It is Thinkpad 570
I had to look this up, since I had forgotten that Thinkpads used to come
with model numbers not prefixed and/or postfixed with letters.
I think one of seve
At my side Really Old sounds good like the Mac Pro..
;)
-- Daniele Bonini
Jul 3, 2023 13:36:50 Michael Hekeler :
> Am 03.07.23 03:45 schrieb Anders Andersson:
>> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:44 PM Michael Hekeler wrote:
>>>
>>> I have an old thinkpad - really old
>>
>> Old enough not to have
Am 03.07.23 03:45 schrieb Anders Andersson:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:44 PM Michael Hekeler wrote:
> >
> > I have an old thinkpad - really old
>
> Old enough not to have a model number?
oh dear I have forgotten the model number - Sorry!
It is Thinkpad 570
On Fri, Jun 30, 2023 at 11:44 PM Michael Hekeler wrote:
>
> I have an old thinkpad - really old
Old enough not to have a model number?
I have an old thinkpad - really old
On booting it stops when listing the acpi sleep states and does nothing
more. This is dmesg:
OpenBSD 7.3 (GENERIC) #660: Sat Mar 25 11:17:44 MDT 2023
dera...@i386.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
real mem = 200753152 (191MB)
avail mem = 1
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