Subject: Re: IBM Thinkpads w/ NetBSD (or other recommendations?)
To: None <port-i386@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/21/2001 13:10:50
In message <200108211753.f7LHrJq05035@ginger.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, Ken Hornstein w
rites:
>>Nothing I've found.  I gave up and got a laptop based on "relatively cheap,
>>has all the features I want", and I'm trying to get it up and running from
>>there.  So far, I have video working under both NetBSD and BSD/OS, although
>>BSD/OS has to use 16 bit color, and NetBSD can't restore the console after
>>X.

>That's an XFree86 bug, not a NetBSD bug (see previous messages by me on
>port-i386).

Doesn't surprise me.  What's weird is, XF86 4.0.3 restores to console
correctly on this machine, using the BSD/OS console driver, and XF86 4.1.0
*doesn't* recover, using NetBSD's.  What I don't get is why it works okay
on BSD/OS, also using XF86.

-s