[ltp] Linux on the T20

[Bjorn Knutsson]

Lai Zit Seng wrote:
> I'm planning to purchase a T20. Has anyone had good news getting Linux to
> run on the T20?

I installed on one last week, no major problems. I used RedHat 6.2.

> I understand that the Savage IX video chipset would requier a patched
> XFree86 server from S3. Do you know if this would eventually be supported
> by the standard XFree86 releases? Or does one have to continually depend
> on S3 for updates? (ie, is S3 open with their chipset information?)

It's currently unsupported in the standard distribution, but there is a X
server from S3 that works. The only problem I had with it was that the console
is messed up a while after the X server is started.

> How about audio? The T20 has a CS4624 which I don't see as a supported
> chipset either in OSS/Free or ALSA.

Sound is handled with ALSA (for cs4624, use the cs4614 driver, and disable PCI
power save, like with the 600X).
 
> Also, is APM properly supported? ie, standby, suspend, hibernate, resume?

All I tried worked just fine, but I didn't try hibernate.

> I like to be sure that at least the above works.

>From what I can tell, no major problems. The built in ethernet card is detected
correctly. The modem is a winmodem, so you're out of luck there.

/Björn
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