On Sun, May 6, 2007 04:58, Jonathan Yavner wrote: >> Well, I for one would be interested if I had a T22. > > Where would you look for such a product? How would a seller of such a > product find you without offending you with his crass commercialism?
That is a good question. Probably the answer is that Debian needs a wiki specific to items like this and users' crib-sheets on how various hard- ware-specific issues have been solved. It could be indexed by hardware name and any useful crossindexing. By using a wiki, the community would be able to keep it indexed and up-to-date. > >> the sound system and modem > > I haven't tried etch on my 600E, but to make sound work under Fedora > Core 2 I had to put these in /etc/modprobe.conf: > alias snd-slot-0 snd-cs4236 > alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236 > options snd-cs4236 port=0x530 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0 mpu_port=0x330 > mpu_irq=7 cport=0x538 fm_port=0x388 isapnp=0 Thanks for that. I am going to try it when I get a moment. > I haven't bothered with the modem, but ThinkWiki says there is a driver: > http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/MWave_MDSP3780 That is different from the one I tried. Still, modems are history now unless I want to run hylafax. Actually the 600E spends most of its time in a house with no landline. And Fax is history too, anyway. >> if someone had a DVD that would solve any or all of those problems, I > I'm underemployed right now and can afford to spend some time to create > such a disk for Etch on a 600E, but I'd like to get several hundred > dollars for such work, which means I would need to find a bunch of > customers to share the cost. The 600E is so old now that I doubt I > could find enough buyers to make it worthwhile. Also, my 600E is > failing (which is why I bought the T23). Only one of the RAM slots is > still working--Fedora runs poorly with only 96 MB! Hehe, yes. They are getting old. IMO, your talents would be better used on something more current. I was not really thinking it through when I epressed keenness on the idea. It is worth doing for reasonably recent kit, but the 600E, for all that it has a better keyboard than any other laptop I have tried, is geriatric now. > Would you be willing to take a "dumb installer" that erases your hard > drive and installs a tuned copy of Etch? That would require backing up > all your personal data beforehand and restoring after. Also, the 600E > usually shipped with a CD-ROM drive, not DVD-ROM, which is too small > for even the basic set of packages, so some disk-swapping would be > needed. That's true. Yes, that could be a route. Backing up via nfs over ethernet will work easily enough. But even that sounds like a waste of your time unless there are a lot of us dinosaurs around. On balance, I'll go with trying the modprobe configuration and let the rest slip. I use the Acer Aspire 1640Z for almost everything now, so I'd better concentrate on solving _it's_ sound and the intractable pppd/dhclient incompatibility. Thanks for your help. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
