On Saturday 25 August 2001 11:50, h3rb wrote: > I have a 600x. Mandrake 8.0 would not install on it. Although RH 7.1 > instaled flawlessly. > > h3rb > > On Friday 24 August 2001 01:21 am, you wrote: > > I just got a used IBM thinkpad 600X from a computer show. I was wondering > > if anyone had any horror stories/success stories with putting Linux > > Mandrake on one. Thanks in advance > > ~Lance You need to use the image images/alternatives/cdrom.img-2.2.19-BADZ5 and install kernel 2.2 OR use that same image and install either Freq2 or Freq3 Those work with the trackpoint device. Unlike RH we do not install and limit very greatly lm_sensors. It is still possible to blow up your 600X to the point of a factory return for a new mobo, but not with any of our installs and not unless you specifically install lm_utils. This is not a horror story. This is fact. Use lm_sensors to check battery power ONCE on 600 770 A20 X21 T21 and your motherboard is dead. It overwrites a PROM that controls the I2C bus and that PROM is soldered in and not flashable. George Staikos of KDE.org warned us of this problem, and we investigated and discovered it was all too true. Other distros were also contacted by George, but chose to continue their courses. There is still a mild danger because lm_sensors is compiled into the kernel. So if you choose to use mandrake, don't install lm_utils ever. If you choose to use another distro, don't do any monitoring, as in don't install and use gkrellm. Civileme ---------------------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; name="message.footer" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Description: ----------------------------------------
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