[ltp] x201s experience?

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On jeu., 2011-07-28 at 21:19 -0700, Nathaniel Smith wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I'm looking for whether anyone has any experience with the Thinkpad
> X201s with Linux. I just got one to replace my old X60, and so far I'm
> really loving some things, esp. the new screen -- after living with
> 1440x900 for a bit, it's hard to imagine going back to 1024x786. The
> speed is nice too, and to my surprise, the touchpad is actually not
> *totally* useless...
> 
> But, I've been having a lot of stability problems. Part of this is
> probably some hardware issue -- see the earlier thread about my flaky
> wireless kill switch. But in addition to that, I'm having a lot of
> random freezes, X crashes (this might be related to plugging in an
> external monitor?), and resume failures. Maybe these are all related
> to the same underlying electrical issue, and all I need to do is
> convince the warranty people to fix that (or eBay this one and buy
> another).
> 
> Or, maybe the problem is that because the X201s is pretty rare, it
> just hasn't seen the kind of bug-fixing with Linux that other
> Thinkpads have, and isn't going to get much better. In that case, I'm
> not what sure what I could do -- maybe I should get an X200s instead,
> which I think has the same screen?
> 
> So -- I want to know, what *should* I expect from this machine? Does
> anyone out there have an X201s, and if so, what's your experience been
> like? Rock-solid like the X60, or flaky like a croissant?

I just bought an X201s, installed it yesterday. It was working fine
during the day, but I had multiple freezes yesterday evening. Mostly
involving setting up the machine so I was in X, evolution was running
and downloading mail quite heavily. I've tried to setup ssh to check if
it was only X freezing but even the ssh was dead.

I had that at least 4 or 5 times just yesterday evening, so there's
definitely something fishy. Setup is Debian sid, Linux kernel at 3.0.
I'll try to investigate a bit more.

Out of curiosity, do you use the ultrabase? I noticed that all my
crashes were when I was using it, so I'm wondering if it's related or
not.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis