[ltp] T61, Lenovo quality, Linux pre-installed, alternatives

[Jose Celestino]

Words by John Jason Jordan [Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 06:30:05PM -0700]:
> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:13:29 +0100
> Jose Celestino <japc@co.sapo.pt> dijo:
> 
> > I have a T61p from work, the 1920x1200 model. The screen and keyboard
> > are amazing, considering they're the prime user interfaces I'm pretty
> > pleased. The only complaints I have is the size and weight, slow and
> > sometimes flaky suspend (to ram) and the battery life, I have a 9 cell
> > and was expecting a little more than 4 hours. But all in all is a
> > remarkable fast and robust laptop.
> 
> If you are using 64-bit Linux, I note that one of the new features of
> Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) will be power saving features which are the equal
> of 32-bit Linux. Hardy's release will be Thursday. Can't wait!

Yes, as I have the laptop for only, dunno, 3 or 4 weeks I did install it
with a Hardy Alpha (4 i think).

Oh, a problem I forgot to mention is that most of the times burn a dvd
fails and dmesg shows:

[ 4220.666499] ata4.00: exception Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x2 frozen
[ 4220.666522] ata4.00: cmd a0/01:00:00:00:80/00:00:00:00:00/a0 tag 0 dma 32768 out
[ 4220.666525]          cdb 2a 00 00 00 02 20 00 00  10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
[ 4220.666528]          res 40/00:02:00:0c:00/00:00:00:00:00/a0 Emask 0x4 (timeout)
[ 4220.666534] ata4.00: status: { DRDY }
[ 4221.868913] ata4: port is slow to respond, please be patient (Status 0xd0)
[ 4223.018914] ata4: device not ready (errno=-16), forcing hardreset
[ 4223.018924] ata4: soft resetting link
[ 4223.170491] ata4.00: configured for UDMA/33
[ 4223.170516] ata4: EH complete

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Jose Celestino
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