[ltp] Power and graphics on T41p

[Konstantin]

hi,

disable "usb boot on start up" in your bios options and your mouse will work fine ;)

Greetz

Konstantin


On Sun, 02 May 2004 21:23:53 +0200
Alexander Naumann <alexandernaumann@gmx.de> wrote:

> On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 14:54, Cameron McCormack wrote:
> > Hi Calvin.
> > 
> > Calvin:
> > > I'm a T40p owner, but I had almost the same problems as you have, so
> > > here is what I found to work them out :
> > > 
> > > When I was using the ATI's fglrx module, I had the same "garbled screen"
> > > problem, and I couldn't fix it, so I went back to the radeon module,
> > > which works actually quite well. But a few days ago I read somewhere
> > > that it may be the radeonfb framebuffer driver that's messing things up.
> > > I'm now using the vesafb framebuffer driver, with vga=835 in my
> > > lilo.conf file (for 1400x1050 in 24bits color depth), but I haven't
> > > switched back to fglrx module yet.
> > 
> > Yeah I found this afternoon when I turned the console framebuffer off
> > this helped X.  Though I don't use the console often, I might try
> > vesafb.
> > 
> > > For power management, it depends on what you're using between ACPI and
> > > APM. I first used ACPI, because I thought it would work better as it is
> > > more recent than APM. I could get it to suspend properly by typing "echo
> > > 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep", but it sometimes went wrong when resuming.
> > > Hibernation didn't work at all though, displaying a lot of "Call trace"
> > > lines and ending up by freezing the system sometimes.
> > > 
> > > Then I read this page, which is one of the best I've seen :
> > > http://mike2k.de/t40.html. I think you should take a look at it !
> > 
> > Thanks for that, looks useful!
> > 
> > > I know only use APM for power management, and suspend/hibernation works
> > > perfectly. I only miss ACPI for giving me the CPU temperature and some
> > > detailed info about the battery status.
> > 
> > Yeah, it would be nice if ACPI worked. :/
> > 
> > > The above link also details how to set up your USB mouse / Trackpoint
> > > for being able to use both of them, and it is also working very well for
> > > me.
> > 
> > He doesn't seem to have a solution for if I leave the mouse plugged in
> > at boot time.  I guess I'll just have to remember to leave it unplugged.
> Disable USB mouse in your BIOS.
> Alex
> 
> > -_-
> > 
> > > I hope this will help you !
> > 
> > Yes, thanks.  I will give the DRI driver from dri.sf.net a try.
> > 
> > Cameron
> > 
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