On 3/27/06, Eric S. Raymond <esr(a)thyrsus.com> wrote:
Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet(a)gmail.com>:
> The Thinkpad seems to be cropping up alot in bug reports...
No surprise there. It's the elite laptop, and has been since it
displaced the Sony VAIOs some time back. I don't think I've met a
Linux hacker in the last five years who carried anything else for
reasons other than costs-too-much.
> after a
> lot of sweat and tears I have regained most of my Thinkpad's
> functionality since the upgrade (actually a fresh install repeated
> several times).
Have you managed to get suspend/resume to work reliably? On my X40
the situation is bad...
> Another solution which will probably take too much work: make some
> sort of LiveCD with sufficient functionality to test all the hardware
> compatibility.
If anyone out there does this, I'm willing to test it and send in prompt
and detailed bug reports.
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I've gotten suspend/resume working on my X4.
See:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184033
for some details.
tom
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Tom London