[ltp] New Thinkpad Advice - X models

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I do not believe that you can access the serial port
located on the ultrabay of the x series thinkpads
since I have not been able to do it after trying for
close to six weeks.  So if you have an external modem
on the serial port (I do), it appears to be useless,
unless someone can give me specific instructions on
what to do.

In my case, PC Doctor says the serial port is present,
it is enabled in the BIOS configuration, but no Linux
distribution that I know of can access it (e.g.,
Fedora Core 2, SuSe 9.1, Debian, Redhat, Mandrake 10,
and on and on and on - I have tried them all) - VERY
FRUSTRATING and makes the X series with an ultrabay
useless.  Go with the R series or new T series.


--- Heiko Rosemann <hrosema@fkg.goe.ni.schule.de>
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wed, 30 Jun 2004, Ken Firestone wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am thinking of replacing my old TP240 with
> something newer, and I
> > would like some advice/opinions.
> >
> > First; X40 vs X31? What are the advantages,
> disadvantages of each?
> 
> The X40 is a little thinner and smaller, is less
> heavy. And it has the IBM
> active harddisk protection, for which there will be
> a driver for linux as
> well (at least the IBM guy on CeBit this year told
> me so, and he sounded
> quite sure about that fact)
> 
> > Second; what about older X series Thinkpads that
> show up on eBay? Any
> > models to avoid?
> 
> My X30 works quite well. Suspend to disk works with
> both APM and ACPI
> (swsusp2), wireless (Cisco) works, sound works (alsa
> drivers), modem works
> (slmodem drivers) and all the other stuff like
> ethernet, parport etc. work
> as well. I have no equipment to test the firewire
> and I have not yet come
> that far with the IR configuration (no time at all)
> so I cannot tell
> anything about these two. Ah yes, and currently with
> 2.6.6 my
> 3D-acceleration does not work. It used to with
> 2.4.26, but again I have not
> fiddled around with it since my kernel update.
> 
> Apart from those facts, if you don't depend on
> processing power, it is
> probably a good and maybe much cheaper alternative
> to an X31. It does not
> have USB2.0, it has a slower VGA (830MG vs. 855MG
> iirc), it has slower RAM
> (PC133 vs. PC266DDR), can only handle 1GB of RAM and
> it has a P3-Mobile with
> 1200MHz vs. those Centrinos beginning at 1300MHz.
> But it has almost the same battery life (4 hrs.
> compared to 4:30 on the X31,
> from the net), has the same weight (1.6kg), same
> size, same case actually,
> same 40GB-hdd etc. And I was offered my new X30 for
> only EUR1300, whereas
> the X31 would have cost EUR1800 with all my student
> rebate.
> 
> HTH, Heiko
> -- 
>  * WARNING! The USB documentation is downright evil.
> Most of it
>  * is just crap, written by a committee. You're
> better off ignoring
>  * most of it, the important stuff is: [...]
>                -- 2.4.24's drivers/usb/host/uhci.c 
> (full ack!)
> -- 
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>
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> 



		
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