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

[Micha]

It changes a bit the behaviour of the special keys, especially the audio keys
and the screen brightness keys. If you have issues with any of those it's
probably worth while.

On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:05:20 +0100
Daniel Castro <castromd@tcd.ie> wrote:

> 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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> 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,
> >