[ltp] TP i1500 (german)

[Michael Herron]

Andreas Siegert writes:
 > Hi,
 > after I checked http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/
 > I am slightly confused. I guess IBM is shipping a different i series laptops
 > in Germany compared to the US version.
 > 
 > The one they offer here (IBM TP i1500 21567GE, 2621-567) has a ATI Rage
 > Mobility M, not the NeoMagic like the i14xx ones on the web page.
 > 
 > Does anyone have any expierince with this beast? Linuxwise as well as
 > qualitywise compared to the 600 series.

Check out:

http://commerce.www.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ncommerce/SalesNav?family=ThinkPad+i+Series+1400&cntry=840&lang=en_US

If necessary get there through www.ibm.com/thinkpad.

According to these pages the i1400 series uses (at least at present)
an ATI Rage Mobility M, not a NeoMagic chipset.  Last week the
following note was posted on the i1460.  (And it may apply to all
i1400 models.)

George Staikos writes:
 > 
 > Well I didn't get any response about the new i1400's, but I went ahead and
 > bought and i1460 and I got RedHat 6.0 booted up on it no problem, except
 > for sound and video (I'm sure that's a common problem :) ).  Even PCMCIA
 > worked fine right away.  I installed ALSA and it picked up the ESS SOLO
 > fine, and I used the frame buffer with the SVGA server to get the Rage
 > Mobility M display working at 1024x768x65535.  APM seems to work fine too.
 > Does anyone know if there is a way to get an accelerated driver working
 > for this video chipset?  It has S-Video out as well and I'd really like to
 > get that up and running.  Also what needs to be done to operate an
 > external monitor(Perhaps even dual monitors... do I need to wait for
 > Xf86 4.0?)? I haven't tried playing with either of those things yet.
 > 
 > G
 > 
 > 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
 >  George Staikos | staikos@0wned.org | root@0wned.org 
 > -----------------------------------------------------------------------------



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