[ltp] 3DAcc. on Fire GL 2 (T41p) and XF86Config-4

Tim Prince linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:20:26 -0800


At 09:49 PM 12/21/2003, Raphael Zentner wrote:
>  Is it worth to switch over to the 2.6 Kernel?

For me, no.  I don't have any particular goals to be satisfied by such a 
change.  Do you?


>Another weird thing: ACPI did not seem to work on my computer (with Suse
>Linux 9). When I enabled the ACPI-functions and then pressed one of the
>buttons, the system ran extremely slowly - it took half an hour for
>system halt. On the next boot I specified "ACPI=off" as boot-parameter.
>Now all ACPI-functions seem to work (i.e. the system hilbernates or 
>suspends if I close the lid etc.).

SuSE 9.0 reports ACPI partially enabled on my T40.
If I hit one of the touchpad buttons by mistake, some process grabs the CPU 
and slows everything down, as you say.
Suspend on lid close is a BIOS option; take a look.


Tim Prince