[ltp] Thinkpad 600E and PNP

[Michael Hagemann]

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 08:30:24 +0200 Thomas Hood wrote:

> On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 22:57, The Evil One wrote:
> > I try booting in windows 98, and using ps2 to configure my sound
> > device for linux but for some reason if a do a shutdown or reboot
> > at the thinkpad splash screen I hear two beeps, and the machine
> > reboots itself, this is only when I come from win98.
> 
> This is normal.  The two beeps are a signal that the
> firmware is updating nonvolatile RAM to reflect 
> requested changes.

Do you have the "Quick Boot" Bios option enabled?  Try to disable it. 
It keeps the bios from doing the pnp setup itself.  I had some serious
hangs with alsa after using the dos ps2 utility.


> > my question this time would be whats the best method to get
> > PNP into redhat's stock 2.4.18-14 kernel
> 
> Don't try.  Use a recent Alan Cox 2.4 kernel.

Thomas:  Do the new kernels finally handle the pnp stuff in a reliable
way?


ciao,
michael