Re: support of Thinkpad X60s
Hi
i have a thinkpad r52 running debian and have found this site and
associated mailing lists especially helpful:
http://thinkwiki.org
Takis
On Tue, 2006-08-29 at 07:49 -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
> I am a long standing user of an IBM A21m notebook (circa 2000) and am
> looking at an upgrade.
>
> I'm eying the Thinkpad X60s because it's:
> -- small and light (A21m is >7 pounds)
> -- equipped with only a joystick mouse
>
> However, before I buy I'm trying to get some confirmation on how well
> the Debian installation and this notebook work together. Primarily in
> terms of power saving, sleep, hibernation, suspend, and smaller features
> like getting the disk to spindown and spinup correctly.
>
> So I'm looking for people who have first hand experience with this model
> and Debian to compare notes. I'm not always thrilled by the web pages
> that mention this stuff because sometimes they're wrong or the term
> "eventually got .... working" translates to several weekends spent
> customizing everything only to have it quite functioning periodically.
>
> As a comparison of what I know about notebooks:
>
> my A21m cannot spin-down under any circumstances. Installing the
> notepad packages makes it worse. Under all conditions it will spin-down
> and immediately spin-up again -- power-cycling the hard drive every few
> minutes until I can disable the feature. Once under kernel 2.4.xx I had
> 99% of what could work, working well -- including spindown, sleep,
> hibernate, but not so anymore. Doesn't matter -- I'm looking at a new
> machine, right?
>
> Once upon a time I could hibernate to a windows partition located at
> /dev/hda1. I don't know if this is even required anymore (swap?).
>
> I never had an option to get the thinkpad buttons working under linux.
>
> There are various reports of WLAN working and not working.... help?
>
> I would love to hear from someone who has one of these and can help me
> make that decision. But if you're going to tell me about how well some
> other notebook works it might not be of much use unless it's the same
> architecture or something "transferrable" like that.
>
> Many thanks!!!
>
>
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