[ltp] Re: Sound on an i1460 & other i1460 questions

[George Staikos]

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On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, tugrul@galatali.com wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Derek Moeller wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:49:42PM -0500, George Staikos wrote:
> > > 
> > >     General note: has anyone else had problems with their i1460 spontaneously
> > > rebooting, or in general just locking up often?  I just sent mine in for
> > > repairs today.  It's really messed up.  Just touching it (anywhere -
> > > keyboard, screen (side or top), base, or even a serial cable that's plugged
> > > in) makes it either freeze or reboot.  I assume it's a static problem but I'm
> > > not a Thinkpad Engineer. :)
> > > 
> > 
> > So far, the Thinkpad has not incurred any of the problems you describe.
> > However, I've had it wake up spontaneously from sleep before, though never
> > under observable conditions -- that could be some button being pushed by
> > some random bit of matter flying around.
> 
> 	I've never had it reboot randomly either. And whenever I've put it to
> sleep, it hasn't spontaneously woken up for me yet. But that isn't frequently
> since I haven't gotten the i1460 to sleep automatically. I would bother with
> acpi but 2.3.51 has other problems that I don't feel like dealing with (try
> yanking a xircom creditcard 10/100 out without telling linux and reinserting 
> it... I get a non-working eth0 and eth1 :) .. doesn't happen under 2.2.14).

  wow you should report that to the developers...

> 	Out of curiousity, anyone have a way of disabling CRTL-ALT-F4 = Sleep..
> I hate it when I switch out of X into console 4 and suddenly end up asleep.

  No idea but I noticed that too.  I'll try to look into that sometime when
I get my i1460 back.
  
> > Additionally, there has been the speaker buzz problem, which sounds like
> > the speaker capacitor problem you describe. Under Windows, it made it
> > horrible; it was loud enough to make it annoying to work on. Under Linux,
> > it seems to be there, though with much less magnitude. Cursor movement
> > seems to provoke the beast.
> 
> 	Any sort of CPU/IO activity brings the buzz to audible levels... I can
> actually gauge how much work is being done by the amount of buzz :)

  Excellent this is consistent amongst every report (not a good thing, but
it's consistent which means it's going to be easy to report)

> > Finally, does the 4.0 series XF86Servers work correctly, or is the Mach
> > binary and patch the only known working accelerated servers?
> 
> 	Has anyone else had any problems with that patch server? Its locks up
> occasionally for me. I've switched back to the standard XF86_Mach64 from 3.3.6,
> and it seems rock solid (been up for 3 days...). From the docs, it doesn't 
> appear that 4.0 has accelerated support.
> 
> 	Otherwise, everything runs happily on my 128MB i1460 + Xircom Credit
> Card 10/100...

   I was talking with the author of the XF86 ATI driver and he has had many
reports of lockups with 4.0.  I guess I'll be working with him again soon :)

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George Staikos 


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