Re: Status on X220

From: Kevin Oberman <kob6558_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2012 22:18:41 -0700
On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 8:43 PM, Erich Dollansky
<erichfreebsdlist_at_ovitrap.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday 20 April 2012 10:17:55 Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 6:25 PM, Erich Dollansky
>> <erichfreebsdlist_at_ovitrap.com> wrote:
>>
>> Minor note. Sound card seems to work OK through the speakers, but I
>> have failed to find the magic to make the headphone jack work. I have
>> not tried very hard, either. I keep procrastinating on the KMS stuff
>> as I will REALLY miss switching to vtys.
>
> this is the same for me.
>>
>> I made a quick attempt at the card reader, but had no luck finding a
>> driver that would work. Still, the system has worked for me for at
>> least 6 months, now.
>
> I have here an external one from my broken notebook. It will be used then with this machine again.
>
> What version to you run? 10?

No. I'm still on 9-stable.  I may move to head one day soon. Probably
before I try the KMS patches, though I am running xorg-devel.

> It is good to hear that I do not have to expect real road blocks, just smaller things which might will work later. This was the same with the broken machine. There was even a period of time when I moved back to Windows. It was not so bad as the machine was then not connected to the Internet.

Ouch! Never had any problems with that, though I did have a bit of an
issue with my wired Ethernet when I first got the system. Newer
versions would not install and 8.1 did not have the driver to support
this chip. I had to play shuffle the drivers (install 8.1, pull in the
em driver from HEAD, and then upgrade to STABLE to get the thing
going. Both issues are now ancient history, but it made me very
nervous for a few days.
-- 
R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
E-mail: kob6558_at_gmail.com
Received on Fri Apr 20 2012 - 03:18:43 UTC

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