Silent thinkpad with APM support?

[Temetka]

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ACPI not configured

Well that is interesting. I wonder if there is a kernel module that could be installed to configure it with. Something along the lines of:

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 insmod -i niftyacpimod 

Of course I don't know the specific module to be used. Then follow it with something like:

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dmesg grep -i ACPI

or

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ps ax | grep ACPI 

The last one is more than likely NOT going to work as I don't think that ps would tell me anything about hardware like 'lspci' would.

/me needs to brush up on my linux skills I think

[pau]

No, no... what this means is that, even if you have the possibility of enabling acpi in the kernel, it's not done per default, because the openbsd people are writing acpi from scratch and what they have so far is not envisaged as stable (it would certainly be for a lot of linux distributions)

If you want to enable acpi, you'll have to jump into the kernel configuration when booting

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boot -c

and then

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enable acpi

and

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quit

. It's that simple.

But acpi in obsd does not support suspend. They're getting it but slowly. It'll take another 1-2 years maybe. Why? Well, they are altogether not more than 80 developers working constantly on obsd and, of course:

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/OpenBSD

[pau]

well, the decision has been made and not by me...

good news: my boss decided to fully support me and my home institute will pay 100% of the laptop... I am getting a brand new X60 or X61, not sure yet. I will have to get used to the resolution. Why X and not T? Because everybody here has an X? I don't know... maybe the seller is specialised on X??

He didn't want to buy a second hand machine and there are no new T40, T41 or T42... so that makes it for APM

BUT... I save something like 1800 euros (something like 2500$)



Again, thanks to all for your help.

I will show up from time to time in the X forum...

[Temetka]

Like I said earlier, my *nix skills are rusty.

I am glad that your company paid for 100% of the machine.

You know there is nothing stopping you from picking up a used T4x series on e-bay for your own personal needs.

EDIT: Came back an re-read pau's response to mine.

/slaps self.

Now it makes sense.

Thanks for clearing that up.