[ltp] SuSE 9.1 on ThinkPad?

[Christoph Singer]

On 08.05.2004 01:32, James Knott wrote:
> Has anyone tried SuSE 9.1 on a ThinkPad?  Any problems etc?
> I've got an R31 2656-6FU.
> 
> tnx jk

Just upgraded my R40 (2722-CDG, Centrino) from SuSE 9.0 to 9.1 with the 
following experiences:
Under 9.0, Suspend to Ram (Alt+F4) worked fine when using APM (not 
ACPI). Under 9.1, it does not work anymore: Sometimes it does not resume 
at all, but when it resumes, the system is very unstable and not usable; 
trying to suspend a second time always fails. Using ACPI it does not 
work, either (it does not resume at all). I'm quite unhappy with this 
and consider reverting back to 9.0 (or even to windows xp, because I'm 
really tired of Linux' bad support for power management on notebooks). I 
want a system which I can suspend and hibernate.

Other things work reasonably well, if you don't need any sleep modes you 
may be quite happy with 9.1. The modem and the UltraNav pointer devices 
(including advanced touchpad features and middle mouse button) worked 
out of the box (in 9.0 they had to be configured manually). The only 
thing YaST failed to install correctly was the ipw2100 wlan driver. I 
manually installed ndiswrapper with the XP drivers, and it works well.

Christoph