[ltp] success story: Thinkpad T23

[André Wyrwa]

Hi,

> > Things I brought to work:
> > - x11 (unfortunately so far without xinerama & dri - and it crashes
> > sometimes when switching back from vt)
> 
> I seem to remember that disabling gpm improved things a lot.  Can't say
> for sure, it was a long time since I've used the Linux console (UTF-8
> support is just not there yet).

Sounds reasonable, I'm gonna try that.

> > - irda
> 
> SIR or FIR mode?  I never managed to hotsync my Palm faster than about 6
> kbytes/s (according to /proc/net/dev).

FIR mode.
Look at the link I wrote in the original mail to get more info on how to
do it. It's the nsc driver and you have to give dongle=09 or something
like that. Please look at the page to be sure.

> I have experienced freezes in /etc/apm/event.d/00hwclock several seconds
> after a resume.  For some reason hwclock tends to crash the system even
> when it only reads the clock too, after the first suspend/resume cycle.

Funny, seems I had luck just because I was too lazy to enable hwclock so
far. ;-)

> cpufreq?  I downclocked my 866 Pentium III to 665 MHz, and now it
> almost never needs to turn the fan on during normal use.

Sounds great, but wouldn't make sense for me, 'cause I'm more annoyed by
the docks fan which is running all the time and I'm afraid of that
hardware disabling it might crash the docks hardware sooner or later.

> I only wish I
> could find a way to reduce disk access so it could spin down without
> spinning back up almost immediatelly. I'm regretting my choice of
> reiserfs here -- neither noflushd nor the laptop patch support it,
> AFAIU.

Yepp, same for me. But my drive is quite quiet and since I'm on power
most of the time I don't need to safe battery either.
I read somewhere that reiserfs writes to the disk directly, so there is
no chance for noflushd and co to do anything about it.
Solution would have to be a reiserfs patch that introduces ext2s write
buffering to reiserfs, but I dunno if that would be possible.

> Do you know about setcd?  Works like a charm.

Nope, didn't know about that, thx again.

André.