On 8 Jun 2003, Colburn wrote: > For the sake of all of us who are looking for a decent RH9-compatible > laptop which IBM laptop are you using, please? > > Does everything work or is yours like most laptops wherein at least one > piece of hardware won't play nice with RH9? I use an IBM Thinkpad T30 2366-92A (2366-92U in the USA). Everything works, and IBM even has a page showing how to install Linux on the machine (http://www-3.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-46291.html). When I say "everything, I mean: - The screen/video (1400x1050x24bit) - The audio - The Ethernet port - The Wifi module - The Bluetooth module - The Winmodem (yup! http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/) - The hardware buttons - Suspend and resume, and even hibernation (if enabled correctly and a fat partiton exists) - The gimmicks (thinkpad light, various controls) - The trackpoint and glidepad (I hate glidepads - they are a writer's nightmare - especially if you have big thumbs!) - All ports (USB, serial, printer, PCMCIA, etc.) - The DVD drive, and the CDwriter capability I run RHL 9 on mine, and it is reasonably snappy (in as much as RHL 9 can be termed "snappy"). This is my second Thinkpad (my earlier one, A TP 770, served me faithfully for 5 years running everything from RHL 5.0 to RHL 8, before it finally physically collapsed). Support from IBM for Linux has been *great* (the one time I had an issue with a flaky Wifi module, the technician didnt bat an eyelid when I said "no windows" and simply asked "got wavemon installed?" and prceeded to debug the problem using that and some mysterious poking around in /proc, determined that it was hardware, and swapped the module for a new one). If I sound like a fanboy - believe me, when it comes to IBM Thinkpads and Linux, especially the one I have now, the adulation is richly deserved. Atul -- ------------------------------------------- Atul Chitnis | achitnis@xxxxxxxxxxx Exocore Consulting | http://www.exocore.com Bangalore, India | +91 (80) 344-0397 -------------------------------------------
