[ltp] Washington Post article Linux on TP600

[Arnold Troeger]

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Ken Firestone wrote:
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> Has anyone on this list bothered to email Mr. Pegoraro with their
> observations and comments?
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I have.  I also received a reply from him which I've attached.

Best regards,
Arnold
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From: Rob Pegoraro <rob@twp.com>
Subject: Re: Mandrake 8.2 on an IBM Thinkpad 600E.
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At 08:13 AM 05/20/2002 +0700, you wrote:

>Dear Sir,
>I have the same computer you tried this on and have managed to get both
>the modem and the sound card working.  It wasn't easy though, and did
>require a fair bit of research on my part.  I found three sources to be
>very helpful here: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/

Oh, trust me, I hit every single English-language page on the TP600 that 
site listed. No dice... I'm sure I could have gotten the sound card to work 
at some point, but I also had a deadline to meet.

- R



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