[ltp] Stable Linux OS

[Matt Graham]

On Friday 16 January 2004 22:59, after a long battle with technology, 
kutch ariola wrote:
> Can any one from the circle consult me what OS to install to my
> ThinkPad R40 2722-3DG? I'm used to Slackware, Redhat and Mandrake
> Linux. Can any one please help me and suggest what is the most stable
> version of Linux that is compatible to my R40 2722-3DG? Because I
> have read some sites regarding the problem with the EEPROM does the
> R40 is included to that warning thing?

http://www.freedos.org/jhall/tp-r40/ , among other search results when 
you Google "linux thinkpad r40", says that Redhat 9 or Mandrake 9.1 
works pretty well.  I don't think you'd have problems with anything 
that includes X 4.3.0, since the R40 has a Radeon 7500 and that's 
reasonably well-supported.  http://www.beezmo.com/Linux.htm says there 
are problems with suspend-to-disk corrupting the display, though... 
fixable by using the VESA X server, but who wants to do that?  I 
suppose you could "chvt 1" before suspending to disk....

I'm not sure what you mean when you say "problem with EEPROM".  There 
are some Thinkpads where you should *not* install or use the lm-sensors 
package; this package provides hardware monitoring of CPU temperatures 
and fan speed, and it can cause severe problems on Thinkpad hardware.  
Don't install the package and you should be fine.  HTH,

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