[ltp] Hello there (:

[Brian Ronald]

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Just quickly introducing myself.  I'm Brian Ronald, and I've just bought
my second ever laptop.  It's an R50e, and I love it to bits.  I've
resized the XP partition, burned the recovery CDs, removed the recovery
partition and installed Fedora Core 5 on the free space.

I'm the remaining founding member of Tyneside Linux User Group
(www.tyneside.lug.org.uk) so installing Linux was not a scary
experience.  I switched to Linux from DOS. (-:

The Thinkpad runs Linux as nicely as my poor Compaq Armada E500.  Its
battery died, and a new laptop wasn't a lot more than a new battery.
Like the E500, my R50e never resumes from a suspend-to-RAM.  I have
worked around this problem by using swsusp2.  It works a charm.

If your computer can suspend, Fedora Core 5 will add a Suspend item to
the System menu in Gnome.  This crashed my laptop whenever I missed the
Log-out or Shutdown entries - a major pain.  This menu item can't be
edited, annoyingly.  I worked around this problem by replacing FC5's
suspend handler with its hibernate handler:

	cp /usr/sbin/pm-hibernate /usr/sbin/pm-suspend

Crude but effective.  Selecting that suspend item now safely hibernates
my Thinkpad.

This list is rather higher traffic than I anticipated.  All I can say
is, "Thank goodness for procmail."

Hello!
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Brian Ronald (Brianetta)            http://www.ppcis.org/
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I didn't want to hurt you, but you're pretty when you cry

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