[ltp] Freezes SuSE 7.1/7.2 and TP T 21

[Dr. Edmund Weitz]

Markus, 

thank you very much for your reply. I was close to giving up but I
tried it again due to your mail and now it seems to work. Haven't had
a crash for about a day and a half.

I'm now running SuSE 7.2 with XFree 4.1.0 and it looks like I just
made a silly mistake with the XF86Config file: I was aware of the
Savage bug and the workaround for it but I put the "ShadowStatus"
line in the "ServerFlags" section instead of the "Device" section
where it belongs... :(

Also, I had no idea that I could use the Lucent driver for the Xircom
modem part of my combo card. Thanks for the pointer, I'll try it in
the next days!

Best regards,
Edi.

PS: Just curious - is the 2647-9FG really the same model with a
different MiniPCI card or do they have different BIOSes maybe?


Markus Alt <altmark@de.ibm.com> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> no problem - SuSE 7.1 and 7.2 work perfectly on this machine! I've been
> running both of them since December 2000 on that TP model and quite a
> few of my colleagues here do the same. I first had kernel version 2.2.18
> with 7.1 and later upgraded to the 2.4 series (currently 7.2 & vanilla
> 2.4.7).
> 
> This is a 2647-9FG which came with only the Lucent WinModem installed
> (and Win@#$! 2000 preloaded :-/), but it was later upgraded to exactly
> the Intel/Xircom MiniPCI combo card you mentioned. The modem part of the
> latter works fine with the same Lucent drivers as for the modem-only
> card. Check http://www.physcip.uni-stuttgart.de/heby/ltmodem/index.html
> for the latest drivers. So no need to sigh ... ;-) (You should if you
> had a 3Com card!)
> 
> With regard to the freezes you're seeing, I can just guess. Maybe you
> could be a little more specific on when they occur. However, you should
> make sure that you upgrade to the latest XFree86 4.1.0 RPMs, i.e. the
> latest Savage driver. Another thing I can think of is a screen blanking
> setting in BIOS. Check this and see whether disabling it helps.
> 
> Maybe other folks 'round here have other ideas. Anyway, bottom line is:
> It has been proven to work, so there's hope!
> 
> Regards,
> Markus
> 
> -- 
> Markus Alt
> IBM Lab Boeblingen, Germany
> altmark@de.ibm.com
> 
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