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

[Robin Randhawa]

On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:45 +0300, Marius Gedminas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 03:21:00PM +0100, Robin Randhawa wrote:
> > I own a T61p and am running Ubuntu Feisty on it. Currently I have most
> > things working just fine but getting here was a fair bit of trouble.
> > I'll enumerate some of the things for your benefit :
> ...
> > 2. I had to use compatibility mode for the SATA controller in the BIOS
> > in order to get the installation going. I switched back to AHCI mode and
> > things are fine.
> 
> Does that include the ability to read CDs?

Oh yes. I can read/write CDs/DVDs well enough.

> > 3. The audio chipset isn't supported by the ALSA drivers in the ubuntu
> > mainline kernel for feisty or gutsy - even now.
> 
> This was recently fixed in Ubuntu Gutsy.  With kernel 2.6.22-11-generic
> sound works for me without having to recompile ALSA.

I see. I'll pull the gutsy kernel source and give it another go.

I forgot to mention that there is a nasty (and well reported) kernel
message that pops up after about 15 minutes of use and is along the
lines of :

[102977.848000] irq 21: nobody cared (try booting with the "irqpoll"
option)
[102977.848000]  [<c015b5d4>] __report_bad_irq+0x24/0x80
[102977.848000]  [<c015b892>] note_interrupt+0x262/0x2a0
[102977.848000]  [<f88736c2>] usb_hcd_irq+0x22/0x60 [usbcore]
[102977.848000]  [<c015aaf0>] handle_IRQ_event+0x30/0x60
[102977.848000]  [<c015c27b>] handle_fasteoi_irq+0xbb/0xf0
[102977.848000]  [<c0106b1b>] do_IRQ+0x3b/0x70
[102977.848000]  [<c0105223>] common_interrupt+0x23/0x30
[102977.848000]  [<f884f977>] acpi_processor_idle+0x246/0x41f
[processor]
[102977.848000]  [<f884f731>] acpi_processor_idle+0x0/0x41f [processor]
[102977.848000]  [<c0102413>] cpu_idle+0x53/0xe0
[102977.848000]  [<c03e3a85>] start_kernel+0x325/0x3b0
[102977.848000]  [<c03e31f0>] unknown_bootoption+0x0/0x260
[102977.848000]  =======================
[102977.848000] handlers:
[102977.848000] [<f88736a0>] (usb_hcd_irq+0x0/0x60 [usbcore])
[102977.848000] Disabling IRQ #21

This has been plaguing me ever since I first installed Linux on my
laptop. A couple of months ago, this message was accompanied with a
hang. Of late, things seem to move on irrespective.

Cheers,
Robin