Anybody ever run BSD on a Thinkpad?

[Dave]

Did you try the 4.x stable release, or the 5.x release? How is the driver support? Think I may give it a try. I'm kinda sick of Gentoo.

[doppelfish]

I, for one, do. 4.9-STABLE is running nicely on my A30p, and the next
'make world' is pending. Check out http://gerda.univie.ac.at/freebsd-laptops/
for more infos, and subscribe to freebsd-mobile. Also, check out
http://www.freebsddiary.org/ibm-thinkpad-t41.php

cheers,
-fish

[gzaector]

I ran FreeBSD 4.9-Stable, and NetBSD 1.6.2-Stable on my ThinkPad T22. The only problem I could think of, well more like an annoyance, was that NetBSD's APM reported that I had two batteries instead of one. Other than that it was great!

Hope it was some help!

-gz

[xtypestereotype]

I ran 5.2 on my T40 but just for a day
Seemed to work alright

[jak]

I recently installed FreeBSD 5.3 stable on my T42 (2379DXU) and things are going very smoothly, so far. New kernel, built world successfully, hardware detected nicely, etc. X is the step I'm working on now, and about finished with something workable. It's also dual-booting nicely w/ XP using the XP boot selector.

[avatar]

I ran FreeBSD 4.9-STABLE, and now 6-CURRENT on my T40 2379D6U. Most devices worked like a charm.

The only drawback that bothers me is that I can't turn off the LCD by using Fn-F3.

[nuba]

freebsd 5.3 working fine on a T42 2379-R8U, generic kernel

[doppelfish]

So, how's everybodys experience with ACPI and/or APM?

I'm using 4.10 with APM on my A30p. I cvsup-ed to 5.3 and tried both ACPI and APM to no avail, and went back to 4.10 *sigh*.

It appears that newer TPs don't have APM, and the ACPI tables tend to be hopelessly roken. Am I right, or is anyone able to post a success report? It seems that at least S3, S4 and S5 are supported on a regular basis.

[vincepoy]

I had FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT running on the 770Z.