Mr O wrote:
> Just curious what distro everyone is using on a laptop they
> might own and how well things like suspend-to-ram/disk and
> hibernate work for them? Speedstep doesn't seem to be an issue
> but proper widescreen has only worked "out of the box" on one
> distro out of three so far (FC4 worked, Mandriva 10.2 and
> Kubuntu 5.04 failed) but FC4 puked after doing updates.
My laptop: IBM ThinkPad T41. 1.6 GHz Pentium M, Radeon Mobility 9000.
Gentoo stable w/ kernel 2.6.12-gentoo-r4.
I've been tweaking Gentoo on this laptop for the entire 16 months I've
owned it, so I don't remember what, if anything, worked "out of the
box". ("Out of the box" is a concept foreign to Gentoo anyway.) But
lots of things work. cpufreqd has been trouble free since I installed
it. The disk spins down occasionally, but I don't know if I did
anything to enable that. I've seen suspend to RAM work, and I've also
seen it hang. I got out of the habit of using them because for the
first year they didn't work. I don't recall whether I've ever used
suspend to disk. I don't think so.
Other things that work:
X11, 1400x1024 native resolution w/ GL, DRI, XVideo using Xorg driver
WiFi, internal IPW2100 802.11b
sound in and out (Intel 82801DBx)
DVD/CD-RW
USB devices
Cardbus devices
Trackpoint, Trackpad, external mice.
Ethernet (it's a gigabit chip but I have no gigabit switch)
ACPI battery/AC monitoring
Things that aren't known to work:
modem, SmartLink (supposedly slmodem works, haven't tried)
lm_sensors
IR port
Anne's laptop. Some high-end HP w/ 1680x1040 widescreen. (I *love*
that screen!) Xandros recognized the screen out of the box. Now she
runs SimplyMEPIS, which had to have its XF86Config tweaked.
Things that work:
X11, native resolution
sound out
DVD/CD-RW (Is it a DVD writer? I don't know.)
USB devices
Cardbus devices, esp. WaveLAN WiFi card
Trackpad, external mice (the trackpad also has a soft
scroll-wheel area that works under Linux)
Ethernet
Things known to not work:
WiFi, internal IPW2200 802.11g (I think)
Things that aren't known (mostly because it's not my laptop):
suspend to RAM/disk
disk spindown
CPU frequency scaling
sound in
ACPI battery/AC monitoring
does it have a modem or IR port?
I have a tendency to poke at things until they're just right. Anne
just wants to use the laptop. So her laptop may be more Linux
compatible than we know. Then again, is it really compatible if you
have to poke at it?
--
Bob Miller K<bob>
kbobsoft software consulting
http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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