[ltp] Preferred distro for Thinkpads? -> Mandrake issues

[Ignacio Fernández Galván]

Marcin Trybus, 17-08-2005:

> Let's face it - I'm at best an advanced beginner in Linux. I value Mdk  
> (devoted user since 9.1) for the easy of use - I don't have to dig deep  
> to change any stupid little thing that annoys me when I don't feel like  
> doing so (or I lack the time to do it myself).
> I was a happy user of Mdk 10.1 Official on my T23 since it was issued. I  
> upgraded to LE2005 and it worked *way*below*expectations* for me.  
> Comparing both versions in *out-of-the-box* state in LE2005:
> - wakening up from suspend-to-ram while running X permanently corrupts  
> the display on _all_ text consoles (1 through 6) until reboot (my TP has  
> the S3 SuperSavage GPU) which in itself is annoying enough not to use it
> - suspend-to-disk does not work at all (and it used to work in 10.1)
> - the new mount management (with automount) failed to mount/burn any CD  
> on my combo drive, which BTW had 3 devices (2 of them are CD-ROMs)  
> assigned by default
>
> How do you like that?

Well, fortunately for me, I didn't have those issues. First, I upgraded  
with urpmi, so I can't compare both versions "out-of-the-box" (and anyway,  
I don't remember how 10.1 was when I first installed it). Then, with 10.1  
I could not suspend to disk, eth0 just died and could only be revived with  
a reboot, now it works fine, I guess due to the new kernel. The new  
automount works fine for me, but I've never changed drives, it's always  
with the DVD-RAM.

The only problem I've found is the system locks up randomly when starting  
X. I have not been able to know why, but at least 1 out of 10 times I have  
to hard-reboot. The workaround is easy: this only happens when booting up,  
it has *never* happened (knock on wood) when suspending to disk and waking  
up.

I'm sorry you've had a bad experience with LE2005. As for your problems,  
could it be due to the graphics driver? I'm using the standard radeon  
driver in Xorg.

		
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