Subject: ThinkPad 755c Bugs
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/06/1995 10:22:16
I just finished installing NetBSD on a ThinkPad 755c laptop.
Remarkably almost everything worked fine, however there were a few
problems.
Relevant information:
CPU: 486/50
NetBSD: 1.0 binary distribution
Problems:
1) The keyboard works fine under the normal "pc" console, but when
changed to the "virtual terminal" console pressing a key seems
to return random garbage. For what it's worth, we tried FreeBSD
too, and it's virtual console support had the same problem
(which made it impossible to install, since it uses that for
it's install program).
2) The laptop has an "IBM Trackpoint", a sort of replacement mouse.
It is supposed to be fully PS/2 Bus mouse compliant (and all the
DOS programs we ran see it as such), however NetBSD's PS/2 mouse
driver does not find it at all. We even tried the other Bus
mouse drivers with no luck.
I suspect the two are related since the trackpoint is integrated
into the keyboard.
If you can provide any information on getting either to work
I would really appreciate it. If there is any additional information
you need please let me know.
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