[ltp] Thinkpad R40e (2684-HVG)

[Matthew Carey]

Perhaps I am the first with one of these machines?

I have managed to get acmpi working a bit, in that I am now told when 
the battery is about to run out.

Matthew Carey wrote:

> I have installed SuSE 8.2 Pro on this machine.
>
> I have solved a couple of problems.
>
> 1. I had to get the installer to start in 1024X768 to get the display 
> in that resolution on the installed setup with the VESA driver.
>
> SuSE support told me that that setting the line in the Grub config file
> /boot/grub/menu.lst like this would also do this.
>
> title linux
>     kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x317  
> splash=silent showopts
>     initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd
>
> The number after vga= is the crucial value.
>
>
> 2. I downloaded the bcm5700 driver for the Broadcom NetXtreme Fast 
> Ethernet PCI card built it from the tar file and installed it, also 
> setting the load kernel module setting in YaST2.
>
> Now I would like to enable power management, get a proper driver for 
> the ATI Technologies Inc Radeon IGP 340M Graphics device and even get 
> the modem working.
>
> The modem is: ALi Corporation Intel 537 [M5457 AC-Link Modem]
>
> Anybody had any luck with these?
>
> Matthew
>