[ltp] T61p with nVIDIA Quadro FX 570M / WUXGA on 15.4" ?

[Thomas B. Ruecker]

Marius Gedminas schrieb:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 11:03:19AM +0200, Bjørn Ola Smievoll wrote:
>   
>> Had my T61p for about a week, and got OpenSUSE 10.3 Beta 3 up and running 
>> yesterday.  Have tried among others Ubuntu 7.04 and Fedora 7, but all 
>> distros have had (minor) bugs that makes installation hard (i.e. Fedora 
>> doesn't recognize the cd/dvd-drive after initial boot on from the cd).
>>     
>
> I've had mine for a month now.  Installation (Ubuntu Gutsy Tribe 3
> prerelease) was very painful then, but many of the bugs I've reported
> (or found already reported) are already fixed.
>
> I've switched SATA mode to Compatibility in the BIOS to get the CD to
> work.  I haven't tried switching it back to AHCI to see if newer
> kernel/disto config supports it.
>   
On the T60p I previously owned it was easily fixed by extending the 
kernel command line by "libata.atapi_enabled=1"
On the T61p and current kernels I was under the impression that this was 
not needed anymore but I left the line there just in case.

>> An additional upside was that OpenSUSE instantly recognized and configured 
>> the Intel wlan card.
>>     
>
> Does it work with Network Manager?  It doesn't for me (Ubuntu Gutsy,
> ipw3945).
>
> I'm very disappointed with Intel's ipw3945 drivers:
>   
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have you tried iwlwifi drivers? They improved vastly in quality and are 
reported to be more stable than the ipw driver nowadays.
Also they don't need a binary daemon and work with NM just fine.

Thomas