[ltp] Re: T61p with nVIDIA Quadro FX 570M / WUXGA on 15.4" ?

[Peter Teuben]

gneeki@gmail.com wrote:
> Quick scan of the archives and nothing definitive - briefly, can anyone
> tell me if the T61p with nVIDIA Quadro FX 570M works well under linux?
> Very general question I know!  I'm after the best build/graphics
> Thinkpad available - dual-boot - only need tip-top graphics power in
> Windows - but it has to be functional in Linux!
> 
> Any gotchas with the T61p with this card?

I have the 1680x1050 version (15.4" WSXGA+  NVIDIA Quadro FX 570M w/ 
256MB), and have the following to add, mostly mirroring what others said 
with one big exception but screen I/O:

0) installed Fedora 7
1) didn't try the vesa drive, went straight to the nvidia ddriver.
    I don't know if  it's that driver, but for a lot of programs my
    screen updates/draws are VERY slow. Mostly notably OpenOffice, and
    also for example a scroll in emacs is very slow and jerky.
    OO is probably the best (worst) example: making a presentation is
    now a MAJOR pain, and reminds me to working on a slow 200 MHz
    machine  with 16MB memory.
2) I had no problems with suspending to memory though, unlike some
    others. But suspending to disk (hibernate) didn't come back well.
3) I have the 3945 wireless, and it only sort of sometimes works.
    also tried installing drivers from scratch, but it's simply not
    working well. hardcoding the channel # works sometimes better.
4) haven't dealt with sound yet, but i hear that's just a matter
    of recompiling.

The rest seems to work fine, I've only had the laptop for a week,
so not tested out things like firewire and pcmcia cards. But the basics
work. Just that wireless and screen I/O problem.

peter