Hi All,

Are Lenovo, say for example T410 or equivalent professional laptops ok with 
OpeNBSD in terms of compatibility ? Any things to take care about ?

Regards

JF

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Yes. Nvidia. Avoid it.

Regards,
David

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NVIDIA while still sucky is now better supported than ever before.


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On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 09:49:36 -0600

yes, if you spray perfume on a pile of shit it might smell better.

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No, perfume is insufficient, actual polishing is required.
OpenBSD strives to do things right, you know:

http://www.openbsd.org/images/hackathons/c2k10.gif

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On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 19:40:15 +0100

The shiny smell of Ponal.

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I'm running a T410i. There are some wonky issues with X, switching to 
consoles and external screens. Assuming you want to use X11 and end up 
with the same intel card as me. Intel Mobile HD graphics. I'm sure it 
will be fixed soon as X11 is updated.

Use xdm or gdm or shutdown directly from X11. Otherwise you'll exit X11 
to a blank screen.

Don't plug in a vga monitor until the computer has given you a login 
prompt. If you use vga you have to shutdown from X11.
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=128872912228529&w=2

Wireless doesn't work on the Realtek 8192SE (thinkpad b/g/n). I use a 
Planex GW-USMicroN usb wireless card.. uses run driver, works great

Sound works, the buttons for sound work, display brightness buttons 
work. Haven't tried my esata or hdmi. I think the camera works, but i 
forget.

I'm very happy with my laptop. It runs super quiet and cool with OpenBSD.

This is my system as per Lenovo order.
1   	 2516CT    	CONFIGURED SYSTEM
75Y0808 SBB ICI3-330MPRT410IT510I2.13
45M3092 VBB GENWIN7HOMEPREM64
60Y5846 SBB GEN WIN 7 HM PR 64 US ENG
45M4798 SBB 14.1WXGA+TFT,W/LEDBACKLIG.
45M4788 SBB IN.GR.M.A.5700MHD-AMT,TPM
42X6306 VBB 2GBPC3-8500 1067MHZ1DIMM
45M4839 SBB KEYBOARDUS ENGLISH
45M4801 SBB ULNAV(T.POINT+TOUCHPAD)
45M4834 SBB CAMERA SUBCARD
45M4823 SBB 250GB HARDDISKDRIVE5400RPM
45M4820 SBB DVDREC8XMAXD.L.U.SLIMS.ATA
45M4814 SBB 4CELLLI-ION BATTERY
41W1787 SBB CPK NORTH AMERICA
44C8733 SBB THINKPAD B/G/N
44C7950 SBB INT WRLSSWDAREANTWRK UPGR
45M4874 SBB LANG.PACK US ENGLISH

OpenBSD 4.8-current (GENERIC.MP) #627: Fri Nov 12 23:00:53 MST 2010
     deraadt@amd64.openbsd.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/GENERIC.MP
real mem = 1998045184 (1905MB)
avail mem = 1930944512 (1841MB)
mainbus0 at root
bios0 at mainbus0: SMBIOS rev. 2.6 @ 0xe0010 (78 entries)
bios0: vendor LENOVO version "6IET68WW (1.28 )" date 07/12/2010
bios0: LENOVO 2516CTO
acpi0 at bios0: rev 2
acpi0: sleep states S0 S3 S4 S5
acpi0: tables DSDT FACP SSDT ECDT APIC MCFG HPET ASF! ...
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I've been running on A W500 for almost two years now.  Everything but 
the winmodem
and fingerprint reader works.  Stuff a couple of 750G disks in it and 
you have a nice
portable work station.

--STeve Andre'

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