[ltp] Mandrake 8.2 vs. TP 600e

[Andrew Lee]

Well, if you have a write-up somewhere of how you did it I'd be pleased
to read it. My experience was a very bad one, having used Linux on my main
desktop machines since about 1995 I was pretty annoyed to find that the
Laptop setup had me beaten.

-AJL



> Andrew Lee wrote:
> >
> > I did mangage to get my soundcard working under Mandrake 8.2 on the
600e,
> > I used sndconfig and set the driver to CS 4232. IRQ5 IO x330 and IRQ 9
for
> > the other bit (can't remember exact settings).
> > But I still couldn't get the modem working, so eventually I gave up and
> > installed
> > Windows 2000. Don't let anyone fool you, Linux is really not ready for
the
> > big time yet. What people need is to be able to work, not have to mess
> > around hacking things up
> > for weeks before realising it's never going to work.
> > FWIW, Win2000 set up everything first time, no need for any drivers or
> > downloads.
> >
> > regards
> >
> > -AJL
> >
>
> I'm running Linux Mandrake 8.2 on my 600e with both sound and the
> winmodem working fine. I used the same settings to get the sound card
> working, and I spent a fair bit of time playing with the PS2.exe utility
> to get the interrupts set properly, but it all works now and has done
> since Mandrake 8.1
>
> Best regards,
> Arnold
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