[ltp] XFree86-4.1.0 + KDE 2.2 on T22 ... very nice!

[Tod Harter]

Hmmm, thats a bummer. Get an A20! ;o). Have you tried booting from a 2.2 or 
other kernel version image? I did have to boot from a floppy to do my A20 
install due to the aformentioned trackpoint bug in the 2.4.3 kernel that 
Mandrake distributes. They do some tweaks on their kernel apparently too 
since running the update patches from kernel.org invariably dies a horrible 
death when you apply them to Mandrake's version of the source. I can't see 
any difference though between their 2.4.3 kernel and a stock 2.4.9 kernel 
except for fixing the trackpoint bug (plus the usual extra goodies you get 
with the newest stable kernel). 

You COULD try creating your own floppy boot image. I haven't tried and not 
entirely 100% sure how to do it, but if you have another working system you 
should be able to. I think basically you're just rawwriting a bzImage to the 
floppy, but as I dimly recall from years ago there is a bit more to it than 
that, but there's a how-to that should help you out. 

On Wednesday 22 August 2001 14:29, you wrote:
> At 12:21 PM 8/20/2001 -0400, Tod Harter <tharter@rhombus.net> wrote:
> >I just installed Mandrake 8.0 on my Thinkpad A20p
> >
> >So for those wanting to get a good X environment on their thinkpad, this
> >seems to be a good way to go. The ONLY bug I ran into so far was the
> >trackpoint not being recognized due to kernel bug in 2.4.3 kernel.
>
> Well, there is that one other tiny little bug where the Mandrake 8.0
> installer locks up completely on T22 models and won't install (not even in
> text mode ...)
>
> Andrew Crawford
> Thinkpad@Evermore.com
>
>
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