[ltp] Drivers for the R50p (183222U) wifi?

[Hamie]

Alex Deucher wrote:

>On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 22:11:36 +0200, Niel Lambrechts
><antispam@absamail.co.za> wrote:
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>>1. Depends. If you buy the IBM card you can use madwifi with no issues
>>afaik.
>>2. ATI's crappy fglrx driver has been through a multitude of releases:
>>and still not fixed under ACPI, not sure about APM.
>>And yes, I have reported this to them in detail on at least 5 occasions.
>>The last two times I didn't even get any type of acknowledgement.
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>I don't think you're going to have much luck with any xorg/xfree86
>driver under APM or ACPI.  The problem is that X is all userland and
>doesn't currently handle kernel events like acpi.  since ATI (and
>nvidia) have to work with this infrastructure I don't hink you are
>really going to see this situation change anytime soon.  Xorg and
>linux kernel developers are planning to revamp the whole linux
>graphics access system, but until that's done I wouldn't expect any
>driver to fully support power management.
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The driver may not support power management, but the XOrg driver for the 
r50p works fine, with the small exception that it's not accelerated. 
Therefore the graphics are as slow as molassas (345fps for glxgears).

The fglrx drivers from ATI are frankly crap... I've reported problems to 
them multiple times... And got nowhere. With the fglrx drivers I can't 
even goto text mode... It either crashes completely (Full machine lockup 
in the latest drivers) or when you switch back the colours are messed up 
& never recover. I run XOrg now... At least it's stable. As a speed 
comparison, flightgear is usable under fglrx. But I didn't wait round 
for it to even start on XOrg...

Having said all that if I could find a laptop with NVidia drivers, that 
I liked the keyboard * it had a trackpoint I'd swap in a flash. I'm sick 
& tired of ATI...


Oh. The 50p model I have has the centrino. The ipw2100 support is good. 
ipw2200 is getting there. The new one has just been started.

>Alex
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>>Sigh.
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>>-Niel
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>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org
>>>[mailto:linux-thinkpad-admin@linux-thinkpad.org] On Behalf Of
>>>Norman Walsh
>>>Sent: 01 September 2004 09:22 PM
>>>To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
>>>Subject: [ltp] Drivers for the R50p (183222U) wifi?
>>>
>>>
>>>Hi folks,
>>>
>>>I am "this close" to buying the R50p. I only have a couple of
>>>reservations.
>>>
>>>1. What is the state of drivers for the builtin wifi. I gather it's a
>>>   miniPCI card that I could swap out, but, well, if there's already
>>>   support that'd be easier.
>>>
>>>2. Googling around reveals some issues with getting suspend/resume to
>>>   work reliably under X. Has that been worked out?
>>>
>>>Thanks, in advance.
>>>
>>>                                        Be seeing you,
>>>                                          norm
>>>
>>>--
>>>Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | He that shuns trifles must shun the
>>>http://nwalsh.com/            | world.--George Chapman
>>>
>>>      
>>>
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