FW: [wplug] IBM Laptop

[Coutch, Robert]

I'm using a T23 right now but running Win2k on it.

I tried SuSE 7.3 (which runs fine on my homemade desktop system at home) but
ran into a few problems.

I couldn't get sound but didn't put much effort into this.

I got X running but with no acceleration for the S3 SuperSavage video.
S3's website was no help and I couldn't find any compatible drivers.

The network interface did fire up and my USB controller was recognized.
I didn't try plugging in any USB device.

I gave up because of the video issues.

I have a desktop/server running RedHat 7.2 here at the office, a laptop
running RedHat 7.0 in my bag and a desktop at home running SuSE 7.3 so I can
get my Linux fix whenever I need it.

I anyone has everything (hardware) running under Linux on a T23, please let
me know.


Thanks,

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: R.E.Coutch [mailto:coutchre at usaor.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 2:18 PM
To: coutchre at tvratings.com
Subject: Re: [wplug] IBM Laptop


On 2002.10.10 12:27 Henry Umansky wrote:
> Hello all,
> I'm about to purchase and IBM Thinkpad R32 and I wanted to install Linux
on 
> that machine.  I was just wondering if anyone knew of any hardware
problems 
> with that laptop??

I don't know if this applies to all Thinkpads or only older ones...

$ sensors-detect 
...
 IF THIS IS AN IBM THINKPAD, PRESS CTRL-C NOW!
 IBM Thinkpads have a severely broken i2c/SMBus implementation,  just
scanning
 the bus will break your thinkpad forever!
...

There might be a workaround to get lm-sensors to work on thinkpads, but I
don't know... I've never been able to get lm-sensors to work (I have a
desktop). Does anyone know if lm-sensors is only supposed to work on laptops
or somethin? I would kind of like to be able to monitor the temperature of
my CPU. My motherboard is an ASUS P4B266 with a 1.7 GHz Celery. (It's a P4
motherboard)

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