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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!izvestia.its.unimelb.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.ysu.edu!news.radio.cz!newsbastard.radio.cz!news.radio.cz!CESspool!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.communique.net!communique!news3.epix.net!news.sprintlink.net!news-pen-14.sprintlink.net!helena.MT.net!not-for-mail 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 Organization: SRI Intl. - Montana Operations Lines: 44 Message-ID: <5ighff$c5r@helena.MT.net> References: <5ieauh$i5v@news4.digex.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: trout.mt.sri.com X-Newsposter: trn 4.0-test56 (2 Mar 97) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc:38849 [ 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 -- nate@sri.com | Research Engineer, SRI Intl. - Montana Operations work #: (406) 457-9000 | nate@trout.mt.sri.com | An unfeatured document is a bug. home #: (406) 443-7063 | - John Polstra