There have been a few things going weird on this Lenovo x120e and I thought it may have been f17. But now with f20 kind of installed, and with the problems i had getting anything installed, I think I may really have flaky hardware. Here are the problems.
Probably the worst is I can't write reliably to a USB stick or SD card in the SD slot. I can read them and I can r/w to a powered USB HD and seemingly to a DVD/RW drive (both CD and DVD disks). The reason I say seemingly, is I had many failed attempts today installing f20 for disks I burned on this system. Are the disks bad or is it read problems though the USB ports. And it does not seem to matter which of the 3 USB ports I try. Oh, I was able to install the i386; lots of failures and bug reports on the x86_64 install attempts.
Another annoying problem is audio. No sound most of the time. I may have sound for a while after boot, but then it stops. All standard indicators is there is sound, but nothing comes out.
VGA adapter can get flaky and red stops. Plug unplug. Suspend/resume and eventually it comes back. Sometimes the external VGA stops working all together. Then later starts again.
I have not found any system, within my budget other than the x120e that suits my requirements.
12", duo core, 4GB memory, and 'eraser head' pointer are the must haves. Oh and under $200!
On Dec 25, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Lenovo x120e
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_ThinkPad_X120e
Chris Murphy
On 12/25/2013 11:31 PM, Chris Murphy wrote:
On Dec 25, 2013, at 9:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz rgm@htt-consult.com wrote:
Lenovo x120e
Why thank you. Some interesting things here. Will have to work on some of the later, but the audio is talked about and...
no ./.asoundrc file. But maybe the instructions there are how to make one where you have none.
And:
grep snd-hda-intel /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.conf grep: /etc/modprobe.d/snd-hda-intel.conf: No such file or directory
So how do I configure the snd-hda-intel module?
On 12/25/2013 8:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
install the i386; lots of failures and bug reports on the x86_64 install attempts.
Happy Holidays
While back somebody brought me their system to take a look why they were having problems turned out their ram went bad, it would not install any linux OS and windows install would also crash I ran memtest and it found many errors in ram; failed 9 of 10 tests. have you tried memtest?
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