[ltp] Hibernation problem - T23

[Syd Hancock]

> My T21 never got the sound (the kde mixer) to work with 9.1, so I
> continued using 9.0.<br>
> <br>
> <br>
> I'll do a follow up on the T23 that I pick up tomorrow, to see if
> the same tricks work/are needed. <br>

Ted

The sound and NIC work were detected and installed automatically for 
me with mdk.9.1 on the T23. Haven't tried to install drivers for 
the linmodem as I have a pcmcia card modem (dacom gold plus) that 
works perfectly. Haven't tried infra-red. My digital camera and usb 
memory stick are recognised and an icon appears on the desktop and 
a right-click gives mount/unmount options. Hibernate seems to work 
fine following your tip about switching to a text console - no need 
to remove the pcmcia modem or do anything to sound.

The only 'gotcha' is that there is a newer version of XFree86 in 9.1  
than in 9.0 (4.3.0 IIRC) and it does not support the Savage 
graphics card. Good news is that there is a driver and instructions 
available here:

http://www.probo.com/timr/savage40.html

The instructions explain exactly how to install the driver from 
scratch in any distro but I found that once the driver was in the 
correct directory, mandrake did the rest.

The way that I did it may not be the best as it was trial and error 
as I am a novice at all this. I first installed mandrake9.1 and 
tried to configure the video display - that let me choose the 
screen and resolution (generic laptop at 1024x768). I chose not to 
automatically start x-windows. Then after completing the install 
and rebooting, I logged into a text terminal as root and copied the 
driver into the correct directory - info on the driver website. I 
think I had to create the directory. (I had previously d/loaded and 
untarred the latest version (1.1.27t) of the driver and kept it 
somewhere accessible).

Finally I did an upgrade install which allowed me to configure 
X-windows and simply accepted the default driver chosen by the 
installer - it worked, I had X-windows on my T23! 

You probably don't need this much detail  but it may help someone 
else. It certainly had me stuck for a couple of days.

Regards
Syd
P.S - Ted, any chance you could turn off html in your emailer and 
send them as plain text messages? Thanks.