Hi i have a thinkpad r52 running debian and have found this site and associated mailing lists especially helpful:
http://thinkwiki.org Takis On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 07:49 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I am a long standing user of an IBM A21m notebook (circa 2000) and am > looking at an upgrade. > > I'm eying the Thinkpad X60s because it's: > -- small and light (A21m is >7 pounds) > -- equipped with only a joystick mouse > > However, before I buy I'm trying to get some confirmation on how well > the Debian installation and this notebook work together. Primarily in > terms of power saving, sleep, hibernation, suspend, and smaller features > like getting the disk to spindown and spinup correctly. > > So I'm looking for people who have first hand experience with this model > and Debian to compare notes. I'm not always thrilled by the web pages > that mention this stuff because sometimes they're wrong or the term > "eventually got .... working" translates to several weekends spent > customizing everything only to have it quite functioning periodically. > > As a comparison of what I know about notebooks: > > my A21m cannot spin-down under any circumstances. Installing the > notepad packages makes it worse. Under all conditions it will spin-down > and immediately spin-up again -- power-cycling the hard drive every few > minutes until I can disable the feature. Once under kernel 2.4.xx I had > 99% of what could work, working well -- including spindown, sleep, > hibernate, but not so anymore. Doesn't matter -- I'm looking at a new > machine, right? > > Once upon a time I could hibernate to a windows partition located at > /dev/hda1. I don't know if this is even required anymore (swap?). > > I never had an option to get the thinkpad buttons working under linux. > > There are various reports of WLAN working and not working.... help? > > I would love to hear from someone who has one of these and can help me > make that decision. But if you're going to tell me about how well some > other notebook works it might not be of much use unless it's the same > architecture or something "transferrable" like that. > > Many thanks!!! > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
