[ltp] E145 with AMD A4 quad core experience?

[Andrey Cherepivskiy]

I got my E145 with A4 to work without significant problems, except for
a screen brightness control, which does not work even on recent
kernels (3.15.*) with recent thinkpad-acpi (0.25). I have to hibernate
and then adjust brightness while my laptop does initial boot.

I (among many others) reported this brighness control issue in
ibm-acpi-devel, just as thinkpad-acpi suggests in dmesg, but it seems
there's nobody to take care of it now.

HD8330 is poorly supported by open source video driver. In particular,
I couldn't get an xv extension to work. Hence I use the proprietary
video driver.

There's no open source wireless driver (BCM43228) as well. Again, I
use the proprietary one.

In my laptop, cooler fan is constantly spinning. I hear its noise in
relatively quiet environment only, however, this is still quite
annoying.

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 8:06 PM, Nicole Faerber
<nicole.faerber@kernelconcepts.de> wrote:
> Hi!
> I am thinking of buying one of the Edge E145 netbooks with AMD A4 quad
> core (once Lenovo finally offers a version without Windows).
>
> I was wondering if anyone has already tried that with Linux?
> And if yes, with which findings?
> Does it work nicely?
>
> I am currently using an X121e with AMD E-450 CPU which is pretty OK but
> tends to get pretty warm and the fan is thus constantly spinning. I am
> hoping that the A4 stays cooler - besides the benefits of having
> built-in Bluetooth 4 and USB3.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Cheers
>   nicole
>
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