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Steffen Barszus wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Maybe this does not belong to this list, but I think there could be
usefull
> information in it for cooker. Peter Boy has written an article on
prolinux.
> The article is in german so it is only usefull for thus who can read
german.
>
> http://www.pl-berichte.de/berichte/mandrake-t40p.html
>

The complaints are not all valid. Note that he changed from apm to acpi
by editing lilo.conf, and then wonders why acpid is not set to start at
boot, instead of using drakboot (or even enabled it during
installation), which does everything correctly.

I am not sure what he is saying about LVM, but it isn't difficult to get
LVM setup during installation:
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/screenshots/mandrake-9.1-lvm.png
http://ranger.dnsalias.com/mandrake/screenshots/mandrake-9.1-lvm2.png

The only valid point he has regarding LVM is that LVM isn't started up
in the rescue image for 9.1.

He also does not give any information on *which* touchpad driver he is
looking for. There are huge differences between Thinkpad models, so
without the information, it is impossible to know how to fix it.

I am also not familiar with bluetooth, but AFAIK the drivers were
availabe, and the applications are in contrib?

There are some PCMCIA cards which aren't recognised, but I think they
are in the latest cooker kernels (but there are some other fixes missing
which prevent some people from using them).

According to the thinkpad list, there is a driver in development for the
T40's wireless card, but there are still issues with it, and it has only
been functional for about a month. Definitely not a Mandrake-specific
complaint.

His last complaint about /sbin/installkernel on first kernel update not
leaving a boot option for the original kernel is valid, and really needs
a fix!!!!

> Maybe this helps somehow someone as constructive critic.

Not terribly constructive, and very one-sided, but my german isn't that
good.

Regards,
Buchan

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