[ltp] new thinkpads

[Steven Filling]

On 02-Mar-2000 George Staikos extemporized:
> 
>  AHHHHHHHHHHHHH  They did it _AGAIN_!  The A20 series has _3_ different
> Video
> chipsets!  You can expect the low end model to work as it uses the ATI
> Rage
> Mobility M, and XF86 versions 4.0 and 3.3.6+patch should work.  The two
> midrange ones use Rage Mobility "M1".  I don't know what this is but it
> may
> not work yet.  The Rage Mobility 128 I'm pretty sure won't work yet. 
> Now
> when I say won't work, I mean "won't work in accelerated mode".  You
> should
> always be able to use the FBDev server or the SVGA server. 

Ah well, I guess I can survive on unaccelerated...


 The
> UltraPort
> probably will not work.  If all goes well, DVD will be supported soon. 

hopefully DVD support will be forthcoming, the UltraPort I suspect can be
lived without.  Wonder what kind of fiddling it would take to get W2K
running on VMware to recognise it.

> Soundcard is probably
> Ensonique
> based (just a guess right now) and has basic support right now.  Oh and
> the
> builtin modem should be a Lucent WinModem and there is a driver for it
> if you
> run Redhat Linux.

Yep - in fact I'm sending this from my 240 using the lucent driver.


> 
>    Does that come close enough to answering?  Overall it should work,
> but I
> touched on the key points where there are still issues.


Thanks !  I appreciate your efforts - now off to spend too much ;^)

TIA
S.
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E-Mail: 
Steven Filling <steven@samsara.csustan.edu>
Date: 02-May-2000
Time: 21:04:28
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