Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-02-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 04 Feb 2003, Alexandre Beelen wrote: [...] >> > - ACPI >> >> Yes, but YMMV. > > Could you expand this ? The level of support for ACPI, especially in terms of system monitoring, varies enormously. IIRC, last time I tried ACPI couldn't report the battery state on my machine. What is and isn'

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-02-06 Thread Daniel Pittman
On 04 Feb 2003, Alexandre Beelen wrote: [...] >> > - ACPI >> >> Yes, but YMMV. > > Could you expand this ? The level of support for ACPI, especially in terms of system monitoring, varies enormously. IIRC, last time I tried ACPI couldn't report the battery state on my machine. What is and isn'

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-02-04 Thread Alexandre Beelen
> > - ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 > > Sure, with a 4.2 series XFree86, or with the VESA driver. > > DRI has always caused lockups within two days for me, so I don't enable > it, and my system is stable. (A31p, but similar hardware.) I never had such problem since APM suspend to disk crash my laptop

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-02-04 Thread Alexandre Beelen
> > - ATI Mobility Radeon 7500 > > Sure, with a 4.2 series XFree86, or with the VESA driver. > > DRI has always caused lockups within two days for me, so I don't enable > it, and my system is stable. (A31p, but similar hardware.) I never had such problem since APM suspend to disk crash my laptop

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-02-03 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003, Eduard Nabbel wrote: > Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> DRI has always caused lockups within two days for me, so I don't >> enable it, and my system is stable. (A31p, but similar hardware.) > > Have you had problems switching several times between console and X? > Sometimes keyboar

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-02-02 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Sun, 02 Feb 2003, Eduard Nabbel wrote: > Daniel Pittman wrote: > >> DRI has always caused lockups within two days for me, so I don't >> enable it, and my system is stable. (A31p, but similar hardware.) > > Have you had problems switching several times between console and X? > Sometimes keyboar

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-02-02 Thread Eduard Nabbel
Daniel Pittman wrote: DRI has always caused lockups within two days for me, so I don't enable it, and my system is stable. (A31p, but similar hardware.) Have you had problems switching several times between console and X? Sometimes keyboard and mouse aren't available anymore while system is

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-02-02 Thread Eduard Nabbel
Daniel Pittman wrote: DRI has always caused lockups within two days for me, so I don't enable it, and my system is stable. (A31p, but similar hardware.) Have you had problems switching several times between console and X? Sometimes keyboard and mouse aren't available anymore while system is s

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-31 Thread Reinhard Foerster
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:41:43 -0800, Glen Mehn wrote: > IIRC, Fn-F7 (suspend to disk) works by suspending to that 3GB recovery > partition, but YMMV. (this was from a tp600, which had a much smaller > recovery partition...) Suspend to disk (hibernation) is Fn+12 on a T30. It has nothing to do wi

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-31 Thread Glen Mehn
Daniel Pittman wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, arief mulya wrote: As the laptop arrives just now, I'm preparing to install a Sarge on it. I've already done repartition. [Why does IBM need to use that 3 Gigs for recovery anyway...] According to their support people it's either a deal with Micros

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-31 Thread Reinhard Foerster
On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 11:41:43 -0800, Glen Mehn wrote: > IIRC, Fn-F7 (suspend to disk) works by suspending to that 3GB recovery > partition, but YMMV. (this was from a tp600, which had a much smaller > recovery partition...) Suspend to disk (hibernation) is Fn+12 on a T30. It has nothing to do wi

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-31 Thread Glen Mehn
Daniel Pittman wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, arief mulya wrote: As the laptop arrives just now, I'm preparing to install a Sarge on it. I've already done repartition. [Why does IBM need to use that 3 Gigs for recovery anyway...] According to their support people it's either a deal with Microsof

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, arief mulya wrote: > As the laptop arrives just now, I'm preparing to install a Sarge on > it. I've already done repartition. [Why does IBM need to use that 3 > Gigs for recovery anyway...] According to their support people it's either a deal with Microsoft to "prevent piracy

Re: Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-30 Thread Daniel Pittman
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, arief mulya wrote: > As the laptop arrives just now, I'm preparing to install a Sarge on > it. I've already done repartition. [Why does IBM need to use that 3 > Gigs for recovery anyway...] According to their support people it's either a deal with Microsoft to "prevent piracy

Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-29 Thread arief_mulya
Dear all, As the laptop arrives just now, I'm preparing to install a Sarge on it. I've already done repartition. [Why does IBM need to use that 3 Gigs for recovery anyway...] Still keeping winXP and that IBM recovery partition. Btw, This is a brand new laptop, and I already eXPerience tha

Thinkpad T30 Specs

2003-01-29 Thread arief_mulya
Dear all, As the laptop arrives just now, I'm preparing to install a Sarge on it. I've already done repartition. [Why does IBM need to use that 3 Gigs for recovery anyway...] Still keeping winXP and that IBM recovery partition. Btw, This is a brand new laptop, and I already eXPerience that