FreeBSD 6.1 on Thinkpad X41 :: semicomplete.com

Thu, 31 Aug 2006

FreeBSD 6.1 on Thinkpad X41

I installed FreeBSD 6.1 on my corp laptop tonight. The following are notable:

acpi_ibm doesn't appear to read much of anything useful. hotkey values work. Little else
cpufreq works
wacom stylus input magic works via X 'wacom' driver. Shows up as /dev/cuad1
ath0 works
bge0 works
sata works
Tablet buttons (rotate/tools/esc/enter/ctrlaltdel) are received by X (viewable by xev(1))

wacom was not properly calibrated initially. Guess-and-check method of screwing with calibration values made everything happy.

I'll post configs and other notes later. Naptime.

Comments: 3 (view comments)
Tags: freebsd, thinkpad, laptop, mobile
Permalink: /geekery/freebsd-thinkpad-t41
posted at: 02:37

3 responses to 'FreeBSD 6.1 on Thinkpad X41'

Laurent posted at Sat Oct 14 07:22:44 2006...

Hello,

I plan to do this little task this week on my X41, i cross fingers.

Thanks for your blog,

Laurent

BB posted at Sat Oct 21 05:44:45 2006...

What's up with Suspend/Resume?

longdead posted at Thu Nov 2 10:01:03 2006...

Is that a serial tablet or usb? I've been thinking aboutswitching to FreeBSD but from my research it looks like Wacom USB support might be iffy.

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Thu, 31 Aug 2006