Re: Etch on a Thinkpad T23
> Well, I for one would be interested if I had a T22.
Where would you look for such a product? How would a seller of such a
product find you without offending you with his crass commercialism?
> I have 600E that runs etch flawlessly except for the sound system and
> modem (which never work under linux on any laptop in my experience)
I haven't tried etch on my 600E, but to make sound work under Fedora
Core 2 I had to put these in /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias snd-slot-0 snd-cs4236
alias snd-card-0 snd-cs4236
options snd-cs4236 port=0x530 irq=5 dma1=1 dma2=0 mpu_port=0x330
mpu_irq=7 cport=0x538 fm_port=0x388 isapnp=0
I haven't bothered with the modem, but ThinkWiki says there is a driver:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/MWave_MDSP3780
> if someone had a DVD that would solve any or all of those problems, I
> would be very keen: I simply cannot afford a couple of days per
> issue, which is what it usually takes even with a good
> ADSL connection.
I'm underemployed right now and can afford to spend some time to create
such a disk for Etch on a 600E, but I'd like to get several hundred
dollars for such work, which means I would need to find a bunch of
customers to share the cost. The 600E is so old now that I doubt I
could find enough buyers to make it worthwhile. Also, my 600E is
failing (which is why I bought the T23). Only one of the RAM slots is
still working--Fedora runs poorly with only 96 MB!
Would you be willing to take a "dumb installer" that erases your hard
drive and installs a tuned copy of Etch? That would require backing up
all your personal data beforehand and restoring after. Also, the 600E
usually shipped with a CD-ROM drive, not DVD-ROM, which is too small
for even the basic set of packages, so some disk-swapping would be
needed.
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