[ltp] Washington Post article Linux on TP600

[David Margrave]

Well, I'm hardly concerned that some computer column guy who has never
touched anything non-MS has a bit of trouble with linux.

What I'm more interested in is how you got the suspend/resume working
flawlessly.  Did you use the tpctl utilites or whatever?  I kind of lost
steam after getting the modem, ALSA, and the lucent wireless card working.
I still need to tune the HD sleep interval (I think using tpctl and not
hdparm), and also get suspend/resume working.  That would be great.

I've put so much work into this that I don't want to upgrade to a newer
version of RH and go through it all again!  I have a TP600 with an upgrade
to 20GB HD and 288 MB memory.  I bought it used within the warranty
period.  It has been back to IBM twice, but since then, no problems.


On Wed, 22 May 2002, James Holden wrote:

> Quoting Tom Allison <tallison1@twmi.rr.com>:
>
> [snip]
>
> > To some extent you may be right.
> > My brother just got a Linux box and I had to remind him that he will
> > probably not have to reboot the machine for the next 3-6 months unless
> > he wants to upgrade the kernel.  He was kind of dumb-founded.  It's like
> > telling someone they don't have to breathe...
>
> Heh, there's something wrong with that box if you only expect it to stay up for
> half a year! I almost never actually halt my Thinkpad. Suspending and resuming
> works like a dream, so it racks up incredible uptimes! My colleague has 'doze
> laptop (same model) and it dies in it's sleep about 1 time in 3. We've tried
> everything.
>
> People really do accept crashes as part of daily life though. (When will they
> learn?!)
>
> James
>
>
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