If your laptop isn't listed below doesn't mean that it won't work,
and you will most likely find a similar model that is listed below.
Most laptops work very well, however some will still have minor issues.
Laptop |
Notes |
Acer Aspire 1360
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- It comes with AMD Sempron 2800+.
- Everything works fine (mini-PCI slot, VIA S3 Unichrome PRO, VIA
RhineII-2).
Contact Maxim
Bourmistrov.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Clevo D410V
|
- Works with OpenBSD 3.7-current (2005 May)
- CPU: 2.8Ghz with HyperThreading. I use it with GENERIC kernel.
- Graphics: ATI 9600. It's working fine with Xorg loaded glx.
DRI not working. Resolution 1400x1050 works fine.
- Ethernet: 100/1000 Realtek 8169. Working with re(4) fine.
- PCMCIA: Working with NetGear WG511T WiFi Card. ath(4)
- USB: Working. I tried with Lexar JumpDrive.
- Sound: auich(4) working (AC'97)
- apm(8) is not working properly. Cannot apm -S:
apm0: APM set power state: unable to enter requested state (96)
- apm -z freezes.
- SD Card reader probably works, although I haven't tested yet.
- Infra is not working.
- CD/DVD -
QSI, CDRW/DVD SBW-242, UX02 SCSI0 5/cdrom removable
I can write cd, and view dvd.
Contact Adam Papai
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Compaq Armada 1573DM
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (April 1, 2005) works.
- PCMCIA works fine.
- XFree 4.2.1 works great (800x600x16).
- APM not tested.
- Had to use boot> machine memory +0x3000000@0x1000000
in order to get all 64M of memory.
- Sound does not work.
Contact Juan J. Martínez.
dmesg
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XF86Config
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more info
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Compaq NX9005
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 11, 2005) works.
- All components are detected.
- It was not possible to run X.org, so I had to switch back to
XFree86. See also my yet unanswered
post to openbsd-x11@.
Contact Haluk Durmus.
dmesg
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XF86Config
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Dell Inspiron 500m
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 2005) works.
- Sound, touchpad, fxp onboard NIC work fine.
- USB: able to mount flash stick read/write, even able to install
OpenBSD on it and boot from it
- Pressing "Fn" and uparrow/downarrow keys to configure brightness
works, as well as switching to external VGA
- For getting the Intel ipw2100 wireless card to work,
use
Damien Bergamini's firmware package.
- There was (expected) trouble with the screen resolution in X.
Using
i855vidctl,
it goes to 1400x1050 as wanted by adding the line:
i855vidctl 5c 1400x1050
into /etc/rc.securelevel.
- APM does not seem to work at all: Neither apmd
nor halt -p operate ok.
For any other experiences on this, contact the submitter.
- PCMCIA not tested
- No extra xorg.conf supplied, the default is OK.
Contact Baldur Sigurðsson.
dmesg
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Dell Inspiron 1000
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- APM causes kernel panic, no way to disable in BIOS, so disabled in
kernel (see dmesg).
- CD-RW/DVD-ROM works for burning CD-R/W and reading DVD-ROM and playing.
- PCMCIA, Touchpad, USB 2.0, Ethernet sis(4), and Audio (SiS 7012 AC'97) work.
- Video (SiS 650L) works with X driver sis, VGA out works if configured properly in xorg.conf.
- Fn keys:
- Brightness keys work without any special configuration
- Enable/disable system beep works
(mixerctl inputs.phone.mute=off first)
- Num Lock works (though see additional link for more info
on using it)
- mute and volume up/down don't seem to work (though configuration may
be possible)
- display change works (to a point; see link for more info)
- SysRq and Break keys not tested
Contact Christian Jones.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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more info
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Dell Inspiron 2500
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- You need to boot with option -c and disable apm, then disable aic.
- Integrated auich(4) works fine.
- Integrated i815 works fine.
- USB and PCMCIA work fine.
Contact Gael Queri.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Dell Inspiron 4100
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- apmd(8) is fully functional.
- Integrated xl(4) works fine.
- Integrated auich(4) works fine.
- USB works fine with my mouse.
- Both PCMCIA slots work.
- The Modem does not work.
Contact Robert Nagy.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Dell Latitude c400
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (May 24, 2005) works.
- All hardware (including wi(4), sound, X at 1024x768/24bit) works.
- Suspend sort of works: the system will go to sleep (either by
zzz(8), closing the lid, or Fn-Esc), but it won't wake up properly (I
get a flashing _ cursor) ... so, I have to hold down the power button
for a few seconds, reboot, and fsck.
- For some reason, unless specifically told, X will default to a
lower resolution. Ctrl-Alt-Backspace kicks it into gear.
Hardcoding 1024x768 into xorg.conf fixes it for good though.
Contact Mark Peoples.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Dell Latitude c610
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (May 24, 2005) works.
- Audio, video (1400x1050), and onboard NIC work just fine.
Contact Steve Tornio.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Dell Latitude c640
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (May 29, 2005) works.
- Integrated auich works fine, but one can hear a little 'crack'
everytime a sound is started and ended.
- xl, USB, touchpad, Trackpoint, com0, APM, carbus, integrated
ATI Radeon Mobility M7 LW all work fine.
- not tested: tv-out, infrared, microphone
Contact Jochem Kossen.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Dell Latitude D505
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- The onboard NIC (fxp) works fine.
- ACPI-only machine, no APM support.
- The touchpad works fine, under X as well as under text consoles.
- USB 2.0 works fine: DVD writing using an external USB DVD
writer, as well as a USB flash device.
- Built-in CD/DVD player works nicely.
- Sound (auich) works, but it's very loud by default, especially
the beep. For this reason, I've put outputs.master=30 in
/etc/mixerctl.conf.
- The Broadcom BCM4306 built-in wireless is not supported. Why? See
FAQ 6 - Wireless networking.
- X.org 6.8.2 works. The maximum resolution of this machine is
1024x768. Somehow it defaults to a lower resolution, so you probably
want an xorg.conf file. Switching from LCD to external display works,
but it makes the mouse pointer die and displays a few lines of crap
at the top of the screen.
The only solution seems to be to just restart X.
- Not tested: PCMCIA/Cardbus.
Contact Steven Mestdagh.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Dell Latitude D600
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 15, 2005) works.
- Audio, video (1024x768), and onboard NIC (Gigabit Broadcom
570x) work just fine.
- Built-in wireless (Dell TrueMobile 1300) not supported.
Contact Benny.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Dell Latitude D610
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- X works fine without custom xorg.conf.
- USB mouse and kbd work, both connected to the docking station,
and built-in.
- Broadcom ethernet works.
- CD-ROM, touchpad and trackpoint work fine.
- Dell 1450 WLAN card does not work.
- Sound does not work.
Contact James Boyle.
dmesg
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laptop tech specs
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laptop config options
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Dell Latitude D800
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Contact Jyry Suuntala.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Dell Latitude L400
|
Contact Lawrence Teo.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Fujitsu Siemens Amilo D 7820
|
- OpenBSD 3.6 works.
- APM is not working (boot with boot -c and then disable apm).
- Sound works fine.
- Everything else on the machine works.
Contact Alexander Schmid.
dmesg
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XF86Config
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Fujitsu Siemens Lifebook E8010 with i855/SXGA+
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- SD card reader and SVGA are not supported.
- Doesn't have APM, so there's no way to suspend
or 'halt -p' the box.
- iwi(4)
needs an increased watchdog timeout of 10 in busy
environments, see
if_iwi.c.diff
(with or without this diff, you might still experience 'fatal error'
from time to time).
- needs Xorg-current as of may 2005 (and
855resolution for full 1400x1050 resolution).
The laptop only does 1280x1024 by default.
- Everything else on the machine works.
Contact Nikolay Sturm.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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if_iwi.c.diff
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IBM Thinkpad 390X
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- apm(8): apm -z works fine, but cannot apm -S:
error message: unable to enter requested state (96).
- USB and PCMCIA work fine.
- Sound: eso(4) is detected.
- IRDA not tested.
Contact Antonio Abenojar.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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IBM Thinkpad R40
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- Suspend and suspend-to-disk work, but not while X is running.
Only in console mode. In X it just seems to lock up.
- Third mouse button does not work unless trackpad is disabled
in the BIOS.
- S-Video output port does not work.
- No special xorg.conf needed
- Everything else works.
Contact Andrew Sveikaus.
dmesg
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IBM Thinkpad T23 model 26478NU.
|
- Works fine with OpenBSD 3.7-current (April 2005).
- If using a boot floppy the system may hang when probing ahc.
Workaround: boot with -c and disable ahc.
A GENERIC kernel does not have this issue.
- Serial ports must be enabled in BIOS.
- "ctrl:nocaps" in X puts the control key in a proper location
- Apm mostly works -- suspends OK
- Hibernation not tested, but should work with
/usr/ports/sysutils/tphdisk from the ports collection.
- The audio chipset is supported (auich).
Contact Marco S Hyman.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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more info
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IBM Thinkpad T40, Type 2374-2G7
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- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 30, 2005) works.
- Everything works fine
- apm -S, apm -Z, auich and built-in
DVD/CD-RW work fine
Contact Renaud Allard.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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IBM Thinkpad T41p type 2373-GEU
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 2005) works.
- Everything works fine: APM, X, onboard ethernet (em), sound,
usb, docking station
- onboard atheros works in 802.11b mode only
Contact Matt Rowley.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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IBM Thinkpad T42 model 2373
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works fine.
- See entry for the X40 for the built-in
iwi(4) or
ipw(4)
802.11 card and APM/Hibernation support.
- See entry for the X31 for Enhanced SpeedStep and the extra Thinkpad buttons.
- The alternatively built-in "Atheros AR5212 (IBM MiniPCI)" 802.11 card works with the
ath(4)
driver.
- X.org with ATI Radeon Mobility works fine (1024x768, 24bpp).
- The built-in USB Bluetooth and infrared are not presently supported.
- The built-in
em(4)
gigabit ethernet device works fine.
- The built-in
auich(4)
audio device works fine.
- The built-in fingerprint scanner found in some models is not supported.
Contact Reyk Floeter.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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IBM Thinkpad X23
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works fine.
- Just like the IBM T23, kernels with ahc support may hang when
booting. Use "boot -c" and disable ahc support with "disable ahc",
followed by "exit" to continue booting.
GENERIC does not have this issue.
- APM appears to work (suspends ok)
- On-board NIC fxp(4) works, including PXE booting
- On-board wireless NIC wi(4) works
- USB works (misc mice, cdrom, usb to serial devices, and memory
sticks all successfully tested)
- PCMCIA works (misc NICs tested)
- Built-in compact flash reader works
Contact Andreas Östling.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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IBM Thinkpad X31
|
Contact Bernd Ahlers.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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IBM Thinkpad X40
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 12, 2005) works fine.
- SD Card Slot is not presently supported.
- The built-in "Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG" works only with additional
firmware. See
iwi(4)
for more information.
- The X40 model 2386-8WU 512MB RAM/40GB HD has an Atheros AR5212
wireless card built in. It works with 3.7-current, but not with 3.7
release.
- UltraBase X4 works but is not hot-swappable. Machine locks up or
becomes unstable when trying to hot-plug the base. Work is being done
on a Linux ACPI driver.
- The use of other mini-PCI cards may be restricted by the BIOS.
However, non-IBM supplied cards can be used after running the
/usr/ports/misc/tpwireless utility.
- APM works fine, including suspend to hard-disk (hibernation)
- If you want to use Hibernation, you must have a small
msdos partition with a save2dsk.bin. For this, you can use
/usr/ports/sysutils/tphdisk.
- Perhaps one of the best supported notebooks because several
developers also use it.
Contact Marcus Popp (1)
or Steve Fettig (2).
dmesg (1)
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xorg.conf (1)
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dmesg (2)
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xorg.conf (2)
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JVC MP-XP 7250DE
|
- OpenBSD 3.6-current (October 2004) works.
- Everything works fine except APM and the built-in
SD card reader.
- Since OpenBSD 3.4 the boot loader does not boot correctly from
USB CDROM on this machine -- workaround: take 3.3 and upgrade or
boot via network or PCMCIA floppy.
- The audio chipset is supported. Wireless 802.11b PRISM 2.5 (USB)
is supported, too.
Contact Joerg Zinke.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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more info.
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Medion MD6100 (model no. FID2040)
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (April 2005) works.
- ACPI-only machine, no APM support.
- sis0 has certain issues, see postings
[1],
[2], and
[3].
- infrared does not work under OpenBSD.
- sound is erratic, two out of three times.
- USB2.0 doesn't work (pci_intr_map: no mapping for pin D).
- To use the onboard NIC, make sure the interface is in Promiscuous
mode. I use `tcpdump -i sis0 -w /dev/null` to accomplish this. For
normal operation I add a (wireless) PCMCIA NIC.
Audio programs (mplayer/mpg123/ogg123/xmms/etc) simply should be
restarted once or twice to get proper audio.
Overall, this laptop stinks. It's heavy, powerhungry and gets very hot
(too hot, often it will shut itself down to prevent meltdown).
A lot of hardware works only mediocre. The battery doesn't last long.
It's huge/bulky. It's *extremely* noisy. But, it *does* run OpenBSD.
And, when properly cooled, it's pretty fast (2.6 GHz). Why anyone
would need that much CPU in a laptop is beyond me, but it's there.
Contact Paul de Weerd.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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NEC Lavie C LC600J/5
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (Apr 26, 2005) works.
- APM, PCMCIA and USB work.
- This machine's BIOS uses Ctrl+Alt+F5 as a hotkey to hibernate.
So I have to specify a swapctrlcaps variant in /etc/kbdtype.
- No separate xorg.conf needed, getconfig works like magic.
Contact Tamotsu Takahashi.
dmesg
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NEC Versa S940
|
Contact Aurélien.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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product info
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Sony VAIO PCG C1XD
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 3, 2005) works.
- USB and built-in sound (yds) work just fine.
- My 3com Megahertz Cardbus LAN Card
xl(4)
works ok.
- Jog Dial and the mini camera were useless to me, so I never
tested them.
- While the GENERIC Kernel works fine, the installation ramdisk
kernel hangs on booting since OpenBSD 3.3 or so. Disabling the
cardslot and PCMCIA subsystem in UKC before booting makes the ramdisk
come up, too. But then you have to install from images you left on
the hard disk before (e. g. in a discardable filesystem in the
partition you want to use for swapping later), because you can't
access LAN or WLAN without the cardslot.
- Removing cards from the PCMCIA/Cardbus slot on a running
system may cause system freeze or instant reboot sometimes.
- My D-Link DWL-650 (PrismII) works for some time, but then
locks up and has to be reinserted to work again. This, however,
causes the problems mentioned above.
- APM works partly: "halt -p" switches off the machine, but
sometimes, you can't wake up from "zzz".
Contact Alexander von Gernler.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Sony VAIO PCG-FX602
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- Audio does not work: you have to disable auvia* in GENERIC
after installation.
- APM, USB and PCMCIA work fine.
- X.org runs out of the box, so no xorg.conf file supplied
- Custom hack for hw.setperf:
- I run additionally a
utility
I wrote to control this value automatically depending on cpu-load.
It is based on Laurie Tratts' perfd.
Just unpack and run make && sudo make install.
This way you are able to sustain Battery life up to 2 1/2 - 3 hours.
And the fan stops to run permanently.
Contact Alf Schlichting.
dmesg
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Sony VAIO PCG-K115Z
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (May 29, 2005) works.
- LAN interface ("Realtek 8139"): works.
- DVD/CDROM ("MATSHITA, UJ-820D, 1.01"): works.
- touchpad and X just work.
- APM: no problem, at least for halt -p.
- audio (AC'97): works.
- USB works.
- wlan interface ("Atheros AR5212") doesn't work (see dmesg).
Contact David JEAN-LOUIS.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Sony Vaio PCG-Z505JSK
|
- OpenBSD 3.7 works.
- APM works fine.
- Port extender and memory stick untested.
- I had to turn on the software cursor for X to work properly, but
otherwise the xorg configurator worked fine.
- Lucent/Orinoco Gold Card for networking works fine.
Contact John Karabaic.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Sony VAIO PCG-Z505N
|
Contact Matthias Bauer.
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Sony VAIO VGN-S16TP
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 2005) works.
- Everything works just fine.
Contact Kevin Lo.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Toshiba Libretto 70CT
|
- OpenBSD 3.8 works.
- APM works OK.
- Sound works once kernal has been configured using config(8).
- 2 different dmesgs are supplied:
[1] with Xircom Wired network PCMCIA card,
and [2] with wireless PCMCIA card and wss enabled.
Contact Fred Crowson.
dmesg [1]
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dmesg [2]
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xorg.conf
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more info
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Toshiba Satellite 2410S
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- It's running OpenBSD 3.7-current (August 2005).
- Graphics, sound and ethernet are working fine.
- APM often lies, but is usable.
- There's a bug with a few toshiba laptops and XFree/X.org. Ratio
is too quick, and some chars are repeated. To avoid that, disable
X's
kbd handling, and load a map with xmodmap(1) if needed.
Contact Alexandre Anriot.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Toshiba Satellite 2430-101
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- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 3, 2005) works.
- Cardbus works.
- X works.
- Sound is recognized (didn't try it).
- USB works (new devices are recognized at least).
- APM does not work (hard crash when resuming).
Tried APM 1.1 and a few other APM flags without success.
Contact Nils Frohberg.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Toshiba Tecra A2
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 1, 2005) just works.
- Built in iwi 2200b/g worked after finding firmware.
- Sound, PCMCIA and X.org work perfectly.
- usb tested with ipod shuffle, usb mouse and memory stick.
- The only problem occurs _sometimes_ when using "reboot" from X.
which causes a kernel panic when it tries to boot. Doing a hard power
off, then back on does not cause any problem.
Contact Sascha Ramin.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Toshiba Tecra 8000
|
- OpenBSD 3.6-current (Jan 2005) works ok.
- All hardware except infrared works.
- Some issues with APM suspend/resume.
- Sound required the following change to /bsd :
- In the system BIOS use the following values
Sound = Enabled
--- SOUND SYSTEM ---
WSS I/O Address = 530H
SBPro I/O Address = 220H
Synthesizer I/O Address = 388H
WSS & SBPro & MPU401 IRQ Level = IRQ5
WSS(Play) DMA = Channel 1
WSS(Rec.) & SBPro DMA = Channel 0
Control I/O Address = 538H
MPU401 (MIDI I/F) = 330H
- config -f -e /bsd
ukc> disable sb
193 sb0 disabled
241 sb* disabled
ukc> change wss0
197 wss0 at isa0 port 0x530 size 0 iomem -1 iosiz 0 irq 10 drq 0
+drq2 -1 flags 0x0
change [n] y
port [0x530] ?
size [0] ?
iomem [-1] ?
iosiz [0] ?
irq [10] ? 5
drq [0] ? 1
drq2 [-1] ? 0
flags [0] ?
197 wss0 changed
197 wss0 at isa0 port 0x530 size 0 iomem -1 iosiz 0 irq 5 drq 1
+drq2 0 flags 0x0
ukc> quit
Saving modified kernel.
- separate xorg.conf not needed, X works perfectly without one
An older but still very useable laptop. Not too fast, but fast enough
for some DivX viewing with mplayer and firefox/thunderbird-use (not
for the impatient though, but then again, what is?). The fan can get
a bit loud after many power-on hours. This also impacts battery
lifetime, but that is to be expected. Nice and well supported.
Contact Paul de Weerd.
dmesg
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Toshiba Tecra 8100
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (April 2005) works ok.
- All hardware except infrared works.
- Some issues with APM suspend/resume.
Very nice laptop indeed. Quiet, boots very fast, most hardware is
supported. Only APM doesn't work very well. Pretty fast, not too
heavy, very OpenBSD-friendly - just like its predecessor, the Tecra
8000. Battery can get a bit rusty, works good from 100% to 50%, then
drops to ~3% in minutes. Not too strange for an older machine though.
Contact Paul de Weerd.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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Twinhead N15RB
|
- OpenBSD 3.7-current (June 12, 2005) works.
- apm does not work correctly. "Battery state: absent" and 0 percent
charge when running on AC or battery. apm -z does work though.
- Cardbus does not work - check dmesg for interrupt mapping error.
- The built-in wireless is now working with the iwi firmware from
Damien Bergamini's ipw page.
- Everything else seems to work OK.
Contact Jon Trembley.
dmesg
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xorg.conf
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laptop specs
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