[ltp] How important are T61 bios/firmware updates ?

[Daniel Castro]

I just updated mine yesterday, and before that like in January. I got my 
T61 in September 07 as well and there have been like 3 updates so far. 
On Ubuntu 7.10 I had to do the BIOS update to fix the suspend to RAM 
problem. It kind of worked.
I'm on 8.04.1 now and the suspend and hibernate "work" but very 
unreliable. And they are not a huge improvement in down-up time so I 
just don't use it. I prefer just to normal boot and at least I'm certain 
that everything will be stable.
So, at least I can tell you that upgrading the BIOS didn't do me any 
harm. But if you are fine as you are then I don't see why upgrading. I'm 
of the theory that if something is working why changing it...

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Daniel Castro
Networking and Distributed Systems
Computer Science
Trinity College Dublin

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Markus Grunwald wrote:
> Hello,
>
> How important is it to keep up to date with bios or firmware updates when
> running a T61 with linux ?
>
> I bought mine in september 2007 and have never updated the bios or the DVD
> firmware. I dont't have my T61 here now, so I don't know the actual
> versions but I know that there are updates for bios and DVD firmware that
> I could install. Since until now everything works quite fine, I don't want
> to touch a running system except if there's a goot reason...
>
> What are your experiences ?
>
> Thanks,
>