[ltp] notes on A30p

[Charlie Hedlin]

On my A30 2652-35U (only a 1400x1050 screen instead of the A30p 
1600x1200) my modem and 802.11b are on the mini-PCI card, with my 
ethernet on a communications daughter card (with an empty slot for the 
bluetooth daughter card).  

I have looked into the modem, and it is clearly not supported under 
Linux.  Prior to integrating 802.11b they were including miniPCI cards 
with ltmodems on them, which work quite well, but I use wireless far 
more often than I would ever use a modem.

Has anyone looked into getting an external monitor to work as an 
additional head like in XP?

Charlie



Rob Mayoff wrote:

>I just got my A30p and thought I would toss out a few things I've
>discovered so far:
>
>I have the system with modem, ethernet, and 802.11b (but not bluetooth)
>on the mini-PCI card. Windows XP identifies the modem as a "Lucent
>Technologies Soft Modem AMR". All reports say that this modem is not
>supported by any Linux drivers. (I haven't tried it yet.)
>
>I have the 1600x1200 screen. Building a kernel with framebuffer console
>support and setting vga=882 in lilo.conf or grub.conf gives me a 200x75
>character console (with 8-bit color).
>
>I am using XFree86 4.2.0 RPMs from Rawhide on a Redhat 7.2
>system.  (Man, upgrading to those RPMs was a bitch... you have to
>upgrade your kernel, which needs a compat-gcc upgrade, etc...)  Anyway,
>I'm using the "ati" driver.  I have seen a couple of problems which I
>think others have mentioned.  My problems are that sometimes when
>switching between virtual consoles (when starting X or when pressing
>Ctrl-Alt-F#), the screen goes black, or the screen works but flickers.
>I assume that the XFree86 ati driver is at fault.  Anyway, a workaround
>is to press Fn-F3 when the screen acts funny.  This turns off the
>screen.  Then press Fn again (by itself) to turn the screen on.  This
>seems to fix the problem every time.
>
>If you call IBM at 800-772-2227, you can get them to send you a Product
>Recovery CD-ROM at no charge. (At least, the guy said he'd send me one.
>I only called yesterday, so I haven't received it yet.) I believe that
>with the CD, one can safely delete the recovery partition on the hard
>drive.
>
>
>
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