On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > Hi Shlomo,
Hello, > Few days ago I installed redhat 9 on Thinkpad T40 - the basic stuff works > well (video, audio, ethernet, modem [use smartlink driver], pcmcia, usb, > etc) > > You might need some patches for your kernel in order to have better DMA > support and better ACPI support. I wonder if you kept any notes or saved a copy of configuration files you have updated. It should prove useful. > I only have experience with redhat 9 on the T40, and I didn't try other > distributions. How did it go with the suspect/resume and hibernation (to RAM and to disk)? I recall having severe X related and other problems with the T22. How did you work this out? Which file system did you use? Did you keep the preloaded windows? > OTOH - our company has bought me the Thinkpad R40e, and I must say - this > machine SUCKS! crappy USB (Ali), and you simply cannot install redhat on it! > (I tried Severn beta, Taroon beta, redhat 9) - you just stick the CD inside, > press enter, and when you want to skip the media check - bang.. keyboard is > totally locked, so I'm forced to use mandrake 9.1, which (oddly) seems to > work ok (but no good ACPI, need to compile this stuff).. I should be able to get some notes and hear some windom regarding experience people have with installing linux on some dual boot R40s so I'll try to write whatever they say to me nicely and post it here. -- Shlomo Yona [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cs.haifa.ac.il/~shlomo/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
