Subject: Re: ThinkPad 755c Bugs
To: None <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 06/06/1995 16:04:06
In article <199506061422.KAA16865@ussenterprise.ufp.org> bicknell@ufp.org (Leo Bicknell) writes:
>
>	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.
>

I have exactly the same setup, and yes the mouse did not work properly
with 1.0, but it works fine under -current. There is still a problem:
when I exit X-windows the keyboard freezes, but I can live with that.

christos