[ltp] Z61p/Z61m experiences needed

[Hamish]

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On Monday 22 January 2007 10:36, Hamie wrote:
> On Friday 19 January 2007 14:24, Hamie wrote:
> > On Thursday 18 January 2007 17:58, George Ruinelli wrote:
> > > Thank you all for your feedback
> > >
> > > Since 3 years, I'm working with a R40 and am happy with it. I'm a
> > > little bit unhappy because the negativ reports some of you wrote. I
> > > wanted to buy a T60 or T60p, but they aren't available anymore with a
> > > good resolution (15", min. 1400x1050) like Johannes also said.
> >
> > My last laptop was an R50p (1600x1200 LCD) - bought in April 2004. The
> > previous one before that was an A20p (1400x1050 LCD) - Bought in 2000 I
> > think from memory. I can say that the 1600x1200 LCD was far better at t=
he
> > time than the 1400x1050 (Maybe due to 3 years extra use of course, but =
it
> > was much broghter).
> >
> > My current (6 weeks old) laptop is a z61m (Sorry, not a p). It has the
> > core 2 duo, and 1680x1050 LCD. I have 2GB of RAM (Came with 1GB, I boug=
ht
> > another 1GB from crucial.com/uk last week & spent 5 minutes fitting it.
>
> [deleted]
>
> > The biggest complaint I have is the graphics chip. The z61m is an X1400
> > and the z61p is a FireGL5200. I couldn't get anything other than 1024x7=
68
> > out of them without the proprietary ATI drivers. And they are pants! XV
> > overlays crash the X server when you try to use them, and OpenGL overla=
ys
> > just crash the server when you start it up. And ATI just don't give a
> > shit (I know, I logged a ticket & golt told again that I had to use what
> > they felt like giving me, because they weren't even going to look at any
> > linux problems). But I could rant about that all day & still get nowhere
> > except frustration. AMD buying them seems to have done nothing AFAICS.
>
> Oh... two more things...
>
> 1. The  tifm_ SD card modules stop the laptop from suspending.

I logged a bugzilla bug about this one. And it's been fixed in the latest -=
mm=20
patches...

> 2. The fglrx module also stops the laptop from suspending.
>

Contrast it with this where ATI don't want to know about bugs... And people=
=20
wonder why we don't like binary modules.

H

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