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<h2><font color=#e00000>i386 Laptop Status</font><hr></h2>
<p>
This is a list of laptops known to be working with OpenBSD 2.6.
<p>
If your laptop isn't listed below that doesn't mean that it isn't working,
and you will most likely find a similar model that is listed below. As of
OpenBSD 2.6, we know of no laptops that do not work minimally. Of those that
have problems..
<ul>
<li>Some exhibit problems with APM support. Note that <strong>apm -S</strong>
fails to suspend some laptops, but this is not a major concern.
<li>Many lack sound support
<li>A few have subtle bugs with their PCMCIA support
<li>XFree86 does not support their displays properly
<li>Or some other built-in device doesn't work..
<li>Cardbus is not supported at all. However, pcmcia works fine.
<li>Some have problems with pcmcia card eject interrupts.
</ul>
<p>
If you have your laptop working (or not working) and it isn't listed below,
please mail <a href="mailto:chris@openbsd.org">chris@openbsd.org</a> so that it
can be listed. Please supply as much information as possible.
<p>
APM problem reports should be sent to our APM developers,
<a href=mailto:mickey@openbsd.org>Michael Shalayeff</a> and
<a href=mailto:weingart@openbsd.org>Tobias Weingartner</a>.
<p>
<table border=1>
<tr>
<th>Laptop</th>
<th>Notes</th>
</tr>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Sony VAIO F430
</td><td>
As of OpenBSD 2.6-Current (Feb 17/00)<P>
APM: "<strong>zzz</strong>" suspend works, as does the keyboard
suspend. "<strong>halt -p</strong>" and "<strong>apm -S</strong>"
don't. (but I've yet to look for phdisk utilities below - will be
investigating shortly.) <P>
DVD drive, floppy all function. Ethernet works after wakeup with
the card I'm using (3Com 3c589). <P>
Contact <a href=mailto:beck@openbsd.org>Bob Beck</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Sony VAIO z505r
</td><td>
APM support: "<strong>zzz</strong>", suspend via keyboard, hibernation
via keyboard, and "<strong>halt -p</strong>" all work.
"<strong>apm -S</strong>" wakes up immediately.<p>
Hibernation uses a block at the end of the disk, approximately
3-5MB larger than the memory in your machine. To repair hibernation,
use "<strong>phdisk.exe /create /partition</strong>" to setup the
partition. The phdisk program is available on the boot
floppy image provided on the first recovery CD.<p>
Built-in ethernet works fine, but requires reset after suspend using
"<strong>ifconfig fxp0 down; ifconfig fxp0 up</strong>".<p>
After a suspend, the profiling clock is not running. Patches are
being worked on.<p>
Sound is not supported in 2.6. As of mid-April 2000, it is supported
with a neomagic device driver.<p>
When the memory stick slot is empty, it can cause errors which overflow
the dmesg buffer, and thus confuse the OpenBSD install program.
The BIOS Setup, (accessed using F2), has an option to disable the
memory stick.<p>
An XF86Config file suitable for use with XFree86 3.3.X may be
found <a href="xf86configs/vaioz505r">here</a>.
<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Sony VAIO z505s
</td><td>
Similar to the VAIO z505r, except that the provided USB floppy has
some problems.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:provos@openbsd.org>Niels Provos</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Sony VAIO 747</td>
</td><td>
As of OpenBSD 2.6, XFree86 and APM do work.<p>
Ships with a PCMCIA modem card (COM One MCC220 Platinium Card), which works.<p>
Sound works (8 bit only).<p>
APM behaviour similar to the VAIO z505r,
except that hibernation has not been tested.<p>
USB does not work.<p>
An XF86Config file can be found
<a href="xf86configs/vaio747">here</a>.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:markus@openbsd.org>Markus Friedl</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Sony VAIO PCG 505-FX
</td><td>
Unknown.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
IBM Thinkpad 701C
</td><td>
All features including hibernation and APM work.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:todd@openbsd.org>Todd Fries</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
IBM Thinkpad 770Z
</td><td>
As of OpenBSD 2.6, XFree86 and APM do not work.<p>
Newer versions of XFree86 support X, and patches are available.<p>
APM has been fixed post-2.6 as well, and patches are forthcoming.<p>
Sound works fine.<P>
Contact <a href=mailto:angelos@openbsd.org>Angelos Keromytis</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
IBM Thinkpad 760
</td><td>
As of OpenBSD 2.6, XFree86 and APM do not work.<p>
Newer versions of XFree86 support X, and patches are available.<p>
MWave modem/sound does not work.<p>
APM has been fixed post-2.6 as well, and patches are forthcoming.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:todd@openbsd.org>Todd Fries</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Toshiba Libretto 50CT
</td><td>
APM works but you need to be careful not to use the last
32meg or so of the disk since that's where the BIOS dumps
the long time hibernation image. You can take a look at
the bios geometry in disklabel to see exactly how many sectors
it wants. Failure to do so will cause filesystem corruption
during suspend.
<p>
The libretto uses a single IRQ for both <strong>sb</strong>
and <strong>wss</strong> so the best thing to do is to
choose one and disable the other in the kernel.
The pcmcia external floppy drive is not currently supported
by OpenBSD, but it can be used during the install.
<p>
Installation can be a bit tricky with only a single pcmcia
slot. The best way to do this is to do a network install.
To do this, load the boot floppy and at the boot prompt,
enter <em>boot -c</em>. When you see the <em>UKC</em>
prompt, unplug the floppy drive, plug in your network card,
and then type exit. The kernel will then probe the network
card and you should be able to do a normal network install.
You may find it necessary to disable the sound devices in
the BIOS in order for the boot floppy to correctly detect
your network card.
<p>
An XF86Config file suitable for use with XFree86 3.3.X may be
found <a href="xf86configs/libretto50ct">here</a>.
<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:millert@openbsd.org>Todd Miller</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Toshiba Libretto 100CT
</td><td>
Most of the information listed in the Libretto 50CT entry
apply to the 100CT as well.
<p>
X11 works in 800x400 mode. An XF86Config file suitable for
use with XFree86 3.3.X may be found
<a href="xf86configs/libretto100ct">here</a>.
<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:marc@snafu.org>Marc Hyman</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Toshiba Portege 660CDT
</td><td>
APM is completely broken.<p>
The mixed <strong>sb</strong> and <strong>wss</strong> sound
hardware can cause some grief. Newer versions of the flash
BIOS are worse, since they are less flexible about what interrupts
they allow.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:deraadt@openbsd.org>Theo de Raadt</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Digital HiNote VP735
</td><td>
APM works fully.<p>
Everything on the machine works.<p>
The only hint is to enable PCIBIOS, BIOS32, PCIBIOS_INTR_FIXUP,
PCIBIOS_BUS_FIXUP, options in the kernel,
so it would assign irq to USB controller and configure cardbus
cotroller.
<p>
An XF86Config file suitable for use with XFree86 3.3.X may be
found <a href="xf86configs/hinotevp700">here</a>.
<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:mickey@openbsd.org>Michael Shalayeff</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Fujitsu Lifebook C325
</td><td>
APM works fully.<p>
Sound works when the BIOS is told to activate SB emulation mode.
Everything else on the machine works.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:tom@knienieder.com>Tom Knienieder</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Fujitsu Stylistic 500
</td><td>
APM works.<p>
Serial port doesn't work.<p>
Some tweaks needed for small memory kernel (4Mb).<p>
X 'works' (thrashes like crazy). <p>
Contact <a href=mailto:d@openbsd.org>David Leonard</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Siemens SCENIC Mobile 360
</td><td>
APM works fully.<p>
Sound works, using OSS.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:b1000@softhome.net>Dan Carlsson</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Dell Inspiron 3200 D233XT (Bios release: A10)
</td><td>
APM works fully.<p>
Suspend (to ram or disk) does not work under X (X server does not
restore screen upon resume), but DPMS do (screen is turned off after
a while if the machine isn't used). BIOS APM settings (for automatic
suspend) interfere with X server, and should be disabled.<p>
Suspend to disk needs a DOS (FAT16) partition containing a file named
"SAVE2DSK.BIN". This file which is created via Dell tools under
Windows 98 (it's present out of factory), is sized (ram size + 2 or 3
MB). An ad hoc DOS partition is thus required (it must be the first
partition on disk).<p>
PCMCIA: works except "live" card ejection or insertion (which lock
the machine, a hard reset is required).<p>
USB: does not work, if enabled, kernel hangs at boot during USB
controller detection.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:b1000@softhome.net>Dan Carlsson</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Toshiba Tecra 500CS
</td><td>
APM is broken, However it <b>halt -p</b> does work.<p>
Sound works by default with the GENERIC kernel, but with the speakers
is not really worth it. X runs nicely as well.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:ericj@monkey.org>Eric Jackson</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Toshiba Tecra 500CDT
</td><td>
APM is completely broken (and can trash your disk).<p>
XFree86 works (800x600 16bpp).<p>
Sound works (21739 Hz, half duplex stereo).<p>
<!-- Serial IR is said to work, needs verification. -->
Contact <a href=mailto:brad@openbsd.org>Brad Smith</a>,
or <a href=mailto:d@openbsd.org>David Leonard</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
Toshiba Tecra 550CDT
</td><td>
APM deep sleep (<b>zzz</b>) works, but <b>-S</b> wakes up immediately.<p>
XFree86 works beautifully.<p>
Sound works, after some IRQ tinkering in the BIOS.<p>
USB works; at least, I plugged a digital camera in, and the <b>ugen</b> driver detected and configured it.<p>
The built-in modem does not work since it requires software only available in Windows; that is, it does not implement a true RS232 communication port.<p>
The pcic is broken in this machine, so I cannot accurately comment on PCMCIA attach/detach.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:aaron@openbsd.org>Aaron Campbell</a>.
</td>
</tr><tr>
<td>
NEC Versa 2000
</td><td>
APM works fully.<p>
Everything on the machine works.<p>
Contact <a href=mailto:mickey@openbsd.org>Michael Shalayeff</a>.
</td>
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