[ltp] FC2 and T41p report

Steve Harris linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Fri, 4 Jun 2004 09:41:59 +0100


Just put FC2 on my T41p. Went well. I can finally use the radeon driver
without hacks, still no 3d of course and its not much faster, but 
hopefully external video will work now. Seems to have killed the text
consoles :-/ maybe I can get them back if I use framebuffers?

I also tried ACPI and it seems better overall, but I had to add a load of 
config files (got them off the web). Sleep state in ACPI seems much 
deeper, getting 2%/hour battery drain rather than >5% with APM, and 
suspending doesn't break wireless driver (had a hack in a script to rmmod
the module and not insert it on wakeup with APM). Havent checked to see if
my USB stuff comes back after wakeup.

Only minor niggle is that I have to press the power button to wake the 
machine when I open the lid. Hardship ;)

The ATrpms ipw2100 centrino driver seems to work fine.

- Steve