Laptops and sc0/vt0 consoles
Hi, Apologies upfront if anything I ask/say has already been covered, I'm somwhat limited in my resources at present. In my past experience, FreeBSD hasn't agreed very well with IBM thinkpad laptops, unless you were using the vt0 console driver. This makes me ask a couple of questions: 1) Does vt0 work for everything? Or only laptops? (my understanding is that it works for "everything" 2) If 1) is true, why doesn't the kernel on install floppies/cd's use vt0 instead of sc0. I haven't been able to test with anything post 3.4, so again, apologies if sc0 has been fixed to work with thinkpads etc. Just thought this could be worth raising, would be curious of peoples thoughts. Regards, sjh. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Laptops and sc0/vt0 consoles
Apologies upfront if anything I ask/say has already been covered, I'm somwhat limited in my resources at present. In my past experience, FreeBSD hasn't agreed very well with IBM thinkpad laptops, unless you were using the vt0 console driver. This is *VERY* old information. When Pentium's were introduced (755/560) series, it has no longer been a necessity. The old 486 laptops need vt0, but anything newer works fine with sc0. (I speak from experience, having had an IBM laptop for 7-8 years, and being responsible for writing or integrating the code in FreeBSD to support IBM Thinkpads.) I'm also typing on a ThinkPad right now, which is my 'main' platform, and it's doing fine with syscons, as have my previous 3 ThinkPads. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Laptops and sc0/vt0 consoles
On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Nate Williams wrote: In my past experience, FreeBSD hasn't agreed very well with IBM thinkpad laptops, unless you were using the vt0 console driver. This is *VERY* old information. When Pentium's were introduced (755/560) series, it has no longer been a necessity. The old 486 laptops need vt0, but anything newer works fine with sc0. Hmm, then I'm the lucky one :). There is an old ThinkPad 340 (486/4MB/120MB) which runs heavily trimmed down preSMPNG -current with sc driver. The only caveat is that one should specify a flag which disables keyboard reset, because without it machine will silently reboot. Besides that this ThinkPad works as gateway (even with PCMCIA ethernet card) without any problems. -- Boris Popov http://www.butya.kz/~bp/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
