The i1450

Steven Glaeske linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Tue, 20 Apr 1999 00:48:59 -0600 (CST)




On Mon, 19 Apr 1999, Rob Mayoff wrote:

> |     Do I have to use the 3rd party sound drivers?  (They do work better
> |     than IBM's WinDos98 drivers though...)
> 
> I paid for the OSS drivers and haven't regretted it.  I'm using kernel
> version 2.0.36 on my 770Z, which uses the Crystal 4239 chipset, and I
> have OSS configured for a CS 4232 (4239 is downwardly compatible).
>
I have a 380ED (which also uses a Crystal chipset)  and the RedHat Sound
Blaster drivers work just fine.
 
> |     How do I configure the power management under Linux?
> 
> If you're using stock RedHat, then you've got the 2.0.36 kernel.  You
> need to recompile your kernel with all the APM options enabled, and you
> need to make a slight change to one of the kernel source files first.
> Read <http://resources.inw.com/linux/thinkpad770/node11.html>.
> 
And the floppy disk drive should be compiled as a module.  For some
reason, suspend/resume does not work without this.  I didn't need to make
any changes to the source files.