[ltp] notes on A30p

[Rob Mayoff]

I just got my A30p and thought I would toss out a few things I've
discovered so far:

I have the system with modem, ethernet, and 802.11b (but not bluetooth)
on the mini-PCI card. Windows XP identifies the modem as a "Lucent
Technologies Soft Modem AMR". All reports say that this modem is not
supported by any Linux drivers. (I haven't tried it yet.)

I have the 1600x1200 screen. Building a kernel with framebuffer console
support and setting vga=882 in lilo.conf or grub.conf gives me a 200x75
character console (with 8-bit color).

I am using XFree86 4.2.0 RPMs from Rawhide on a Redhat 7.2
system.  (Man, upgrading to those RPMs was a bitch... you have to
upgrade your kernel, which needs a compat-gcc upgrade, etc...)  Anyway,
I'm using the "ati" driver.  I have seen a couple of problems which I
think others have mentioned.  My problems are that sometimes when
switching between virtual consoles (when starting X or when pressing
Ctrl-Alt-F#), the screen goes black, or the screen works but flickers.
I assume that the XFree86 ati driver is at fault.  Anyway, a workaround
is to press Fn-F3 when the screen acts funny.  This turns off the
screen.  Then press Fn again (by itself) to turn the screen on.  This
seems to fix the problem every time.

If you call IBM at 800-772-2227, you can get them to send you a Product
Recovery CD-ROM at no charge. (At least, the guy said he'd send me one.
I only called yesterday, so I haven't received it yet.) I believe that
with the CD, one can safely delete the recovery partition on the hard
drive.



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