[ltp] Linux on ON TP 600x

[Paul Hahn]

Check out Dia, it is a part of the Gnome Office and does many, if not all,
of the things that Visio does. Link to it at www.gnome.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Paul Mabey [mailto:pmabey@tampabay.rr.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 8:11 AM
To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Subject: Fwd: Re: [ltp] Linux on ON TP 600x


Thanks for everyone's replies on this issue...sure enough,disabling the PCI
APM stuff did the job and now sound works great. Only more more application
to go (Visio) before I can break away from the wrath of Windows forever !!
Luckily VMWare helps me out there so no more rebooting :-)

rgds, Paul.


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>Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 22:07:39 -0400
>From: Thomas Porter <txporter@mindspring.com>
>To: linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
>Subject: Re: [ltp] Linux on ON TP 600x
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>On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 07:05:27PM -0400, Paul Mabey thoughtfully
expounded:
> > Has anyone had any good experience with Linux on a 600X? I have tried
all
> > the major distributions and each one has its own different problems. The
> > most successful was Caldera EDesktop 2.4 where I could get all but the
> > Audio working. I have found one good website on installing RedHat on the
> > 600X and several on the older 600's but none of them really solved my
> Audio
> > problems.
>
>Paul,
>
>I am using RH 6.1 on a 600x and after a rocky start I am fine.  Using the
>newest Alsa drivers unmodified.  Biggest thing is that the PCI power
>management
>has to be turned off, which reduces battery time by a bit.  I did this
through
>the Win98 TP configuration tool in advanced APM configuration, I think.
>
>Once I did this, and remember to use the alsamixer to set the sound levels
for
>all the different sound devices, it works great: play CD's, .wav's and most
>importantly MP3's.  I believe that Gnome, or Helix, offers a sound mixer
panel
>that remembers and restores sound device levels just fine, so I do not even
>need to reset them with alsamixer if running gnome.  I am using the
>modules.conf that loads the OSS emulation portions of Alsa as well, as
>documented on one of the TP 600 pages, and this makes it all work fine.
>
>Since I need to be in a dual boot situation for work and often reboot
>anyway, I
>have not experimented extensively with sound under suspend or hibernation
>conditions.
>
>I am on a long-term work assignment, and my TP and a set of Cambridge
>Soundworks speakers have turned into my home-away-from-home sound system.
>
>HTH
>
>--
>Tom Porter                                       txporter@mindspring.com
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