Subject: Re: Anyone running NetBSD on an IBM ThinkPad [A|T]21?
To: Chuck Cranor <chuck@research.att.com>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/15/2001 18:42:43
On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 11:26:47AM -0500, Chuck Cranor wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 15, 2001 at 07:41:24AM +0200, Jukka Marin wrote:
> > And my ThinkPad 310E locks up when I close the display.  And when I try to
> > adjust the display backlight.  Or audio volume.
> 
> did you set option:
> 
> APM_DISABLE_INTERRUPTS=0
> 
> in your kernel config file?   the old thinkpad 560 we have is useless 
> without it.  it is unfortunate that a generic laptop kernel won't work on
> these system.

I've tried that and disabling APM completely (no apm.o was generated during
kernel build) and it _still_ locked up.. :-(  1.4.x worked just fine, but
I want 1.5 because I need the Aviator driver.

I filed a PR about this, but never heard of a fix.

Sigh.

  -jm