Re: Debian laptop (vendors)
On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 07:17:02AM -0700, Walter Reed wrote:
> On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 06:26:01AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote:
> > On 23/05/02 Bill Wohler did speaketh:
> >
> > > No idea on whether IBM will install Debian for you. I installed Debian
> > > on my Thinkpad T20 without much fuss. The Cisco 802.11 card works out
> > > of the box too. I've been happy with the laptop.
> >
> > I haven't seen too many problems with Debian on laptops now that the 2.4
> > kernel is reasonably stable. Running Woody and upgrading to 2.4.18 on my Sony
> > VAIO fixed all my problems, except for one small bug in XFree86 with respect
> > to the S3 chipset, so I'm waiting for someone to package X 4.2.
>
> As a long time linux user but a new debian user, I installed Woody, then upgraded to sid
> for the first time yesterday on an IBM X20 with Lucent orinoco card. Everything works great
> except one thing I haven't figured out yet. When I leave X, the screen goes blank and I can't
> get it back without restarting X or rebooting, so I can't get back to text mode once I run X.
> Probably something with the framebuffer stuff.
>
I had Debian on a new Dell laptop about a year ago. I had the same
problem, but the solution lay in properly configuring power management
features, like console blanking, DPMS, etc. IIRC, the backlight would turn
off fine when I was on a console, but it would be erratic when I was
using X.
-Andy
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