[ltp] T42 and Debian Sarge

[Marius Gedminas]

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On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 04:53:21PM -0500, Josh Battles wrote:
> Marius Gedminas said:
> > I run Ubuntu Hoary on T42 and love it.  Everything works out of the box:
> > wireless, accelerated 3D in X, sound, CPU frequency scaling, etc.  The
> > only thing that I had to do manually was to enable ACPI suspend (by
> > uncommenting the first line in /etc/default/acpi-support).
> >
> > Problems that I still have:
> >  - External VGA output is all "wobbly" (hardware problem?)
> >  - Excessive battery drain during ACPI suspend -- the laptop dies if I
> >    leave it suspended for ~11 hours.  I haven't yet tried the radeonfb
> >    patch that ought to solve this.
> >  - Keyboard goes crazy if I press a key too early while the laptop is
> >    still resuming from suspend (2.6.12 kernel fixes this, but breaks
> >    suspend somewhat)
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> Cool, I'll have to give it a try then.  The external VGA isn't really a b=
ig
> deal for me though as I don't attach it to an external monitor.  The susp=
end
> is an issue for me though as I like to leave it suspended for long period=
s of
> time, sometimes days.  Please update when you try the radeonfb patch, I'm
> interested to see if this resolves those problems.

It does for a lot of people:
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_high_power_drain_in_ACPI_sleep

My T42 is 2373-FWG

> >> >From a user/administrator standpoint, what's different between ubuntu=
 and
> >> debian?  Is it anything that I'll notice?
> >
> > I doubt it.  One possible difference: Ubuntu doesn't set the root
> > password by default, and invites you to use sudo -- but then I used sudo
> > instead of su in Debian for ages already.
>=20
> I've never used sudo.  I always use su.  Are there any advantages to using
> sudo instead?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RootSudo

HTH,
Marius Gedminas
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nd
quite a few things that just have nothing at all to do with the question).

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