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December 17th, 2008, 12:33
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Freebsd 7.0 on Lenovo X300
Before I break up my saving account, sell my house, my wife and my kids and take a 10-year loan, I am just wondering whether someone has ever tried to install 7.0 on a Lenovo X300.
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December 17th, 2008, 12:53
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CPU: Core 2 Duo SL7100 --> should scale without any problems
GFX: Intel GMA X3100 --> works great with Intel drivers 2.4.2 for example NET: Intel Wireless WiFi 4965AGN --> this one is supported by driver in 8-CURRENT maybe there are pathes for 7.x ( http://forums.freebsd.org/showpost.p...27&postcount=3 ) BLU: Bluetooth --> dunno here, should work but you should confirm that Other components should work fine imho. Fingerprint reader and camera propably will not work.
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December 18th, 2008, 10:44
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Hi vemarden,
It is the third forum we meet and it is always a pleasure. Thanks for your reply. Wifi: I know about the Intel Wireless WiFi 4965AGN. Fingerprint reader: fprint has been ported. Bluetooth: I agree it should work. Camera: Least of my concerns My question was about if there is something I should know before taking the plunge. OK, it's Hanouka/Christmas/whatever time. I am on my way to buy a lenovo X300 and try all this. 
Last edited by ctaranotte; December 18th, 2008 at 12:24.
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December 19th, 2008, 00:37
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I tried running 7.0-RELEASE for a while, but I went to 8.0-CURRENT and never went back. The iwn(4) driver on 8.0-CURRENT works a lot better than the "unsupported" 7.x driver mentioned in another thread.
The thing to keep in mind is that ACPI support is only so-so. Volume controls, screen brightness and other Fn keys don't work "out-of-the-box", and it will only resume from suspend if you're running Xorg and using only one CPU core. I have to say that NetBSD 5 (Beta) works nicely, and of course recent Linux distros work well (Ubuntu, Fedora, and Gentoo). I guess if you're a hardcore hobbyist like me it may be fun for you to run FreeBSD on the X300. I'm going to try some suspend/resume patches I saw floating around on freebsd-acpi mailing list and see if I can get my other CPU core back, but other than that, I look forward to tracking 8.0-CURRENT and seeing all the nifty things the FreeBSD devs are up to. Good luck!
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December 19th, 2008, 12:22
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Thanks for the information.
I am going to follow your advice and install NetBSD-current. One last word, how about OpenSolaris? Do you know if it would run on the X300? BTW: Soon for sale a Windows XP Professional license plus the original and unsealed CD companion.
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December 19th, 2008, 12:36
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Thanks for the information.
I am going to follow your advice and install NetBSD-current. One last word, how about OpenSolaris? Do you know if it would run on the X300? BTW: Soon for sale a Windows XP Professional license plus the original and unsealed CD companion.
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December 19th, 2008, 12:50
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 On FreeBSD also everything works, but I did not checked suspend/resume feature.
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December 20th, 2008, 22:17
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Yes, OpenSolaris 2008.11 runs well on the X300. Suspend/resume, wireless, sound, X, etc...
OpenSolaris was pretty speedy (responsive) too -- which sorta surprised me, having ran a seemingly "slower" Ubuntu Intrepid and Fedora 10 setup not too long before that. Programs seemed to load more quickly; maybe it's ZFS, who knows? It's all subjective, really...
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December 20th, 2008, 22:29
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Thank you for your input.
I am going to try NetBSD and OpenSolaris. I will keep you posted
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January 5th, 2009, 03:03
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Oops! Actually there was no suspend/resume on OpenSolaris for me on my X300, I'm not sure why I mis-remembered that particular detail (since I've been investigating suspend/resume on different operating systems for the past several months).
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January 6th, 2009, 21:01
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I have installed NetBSD-current so far (I know, I know, this is the FreeBSD official forum but I am an hardcore FreeBSD user and the X300 is to be connected to my FreeBSD home and company servers  ). I will try OpenSolaris in the next weeks. Did you manage to get the fingerprint reader working? Regards
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January 6th, 2009, 21:15
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How is NetBSD current doing there?
What is working and what is not?
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January 18th, 2009, 06:07
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Fingerprint scanner is working using fprint (and libusb):
ports/security/fprint_demo ports/security/libfprint ports/security/pam_fprint Also, I've been running 7.1 with a good, working driver for the Intel 4965 wireless card via a backport from 8.0-current (with a few fixes by me): http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.c...freebsd-stable I'm waiting on a little feedback from gavin@ before I post it anywhere. NetBSD worked well, although I didn't run it for long. I was able to get a nice, stable, mostly working setup, but it was mainly for experimentation.
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