I currently have a Thinkpad T60. I use OpenBSD with it, and it has the exact

same graphics card, the ATI Mobility Radeon X1400. However, I have

widescreen, and I was unable to use my laptop's native resolution of

1680x1050, and the stretched alternatives was, to me, largely unusable, or

at least hard on the eyes. The stretched console font was fine, but X11, to

me, wasn't. I haven't tried tv-out, just posting my own experiences. Note

that Xenocara may have fixed this situation. I did indeed attempt to use

915resolution, and I was unable to pull 1680x1050 widescreen out of it.
On 6/17/07, Timo Myyrd  wrote:

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> Hi,

>

> I have Thinkpad T60 and I'm currently running Linux on it. I'm planning

> to switch to OpenBSD but I have a small question about the video playback.

> The laptop has ATI Mobility X1400 Radeon graphics card. As far as I know

> the open source 'radeon' driver doesn't support that one so I'm forced

> to use the 'vesa' driver.

> I know I can get the correct resolution using it but what about video

> playback. Will I be able to get good playback using the vesa driver?

> Also, can I get tv-out using it?

> I'd hate to install OpenBSD just to notice it won't work.

>

> -Zmyrgel-

>

> atstake atstake wrote:

> > On 6/15/07, Pieter Verberne  wrote:

> >> *I'm thinking of a R60 or T60. I have no interest in widescreen.

> >

> > I bought a T60 recently -

> >

> > o wpi(4) is not detected - fatal firmware error. From the manpage -

> > "fatal firmware error. For some reason, the firmware crashed. The

> > driver will reset the hardware. This should not happen."

> >

> > o APM is not detected

> >

> > I am not sure whether other bits like Infrared, bluetooth would work

> > smoothly as well.

> >

> > I sent the dmesg so hopefully everything will work by the time 4.2

> > comes out.

> >

> > At the time however, I installed Fedora Core 7 which detects

> > everything just fine (or with small tweaks here and there)