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<H4>By James T. Dennis,
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LinuxCare,
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>Linux on Laptop</H3>
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<p><strong>From Philipp on Tue, 19 Sep 2000
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<p align="right">Answered by: Heather Stern</p>
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Hi mr. answerguy,
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I have installed Linux on my IBM thinkpad and have found quite a few
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curiosities you might help me with:
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<li> it only works if I install Win98 on the first partition and Linux on the
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second partition (2GB each), Lilo being on the MBR
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This is normal. MSwin looks for its drives sequentially and when it runs
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out of stuff it understands, it stops.
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<li> the LT Win modem doesn't work under Linux (big surprise...)
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For fairly annoying values of "works" it can be forced to work <TT>-</TT> you need
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to either stick with 2.2.14 or force 2.2.14's ppp service into a 2.2.16
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setup with a shoehorn... then load the ltmodem driver binary they provide
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(you can find it at <a href="http://www.linmodems.org/">linmodems.org</a>)
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It still sucks up lots of CPU under load though. And it's sort of doomed,
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unless they wake up and smell the coffee before the 2.4 kernel ships -- there
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isn't amy open code, and there isn't even a binary link kit like Aureal did
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for their soundcards.
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Speaking of which -- cheers to Aureal for a good middle ground solution,
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and especially for setting up on
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<a href="http://aureal.sourceforge.net/">aureal.sourceforge.net</a>. May it
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encourage other vendors to do the same!
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><ul>
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<li> but so doesn't the sound - unpleasant surprise!!
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Can't really help unless you can tell what the sound is. Run lspci and
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see if it says. If you're lucky it's something normal, like an IRQ conflict.
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Try telling your CMOS Setup program that we are <em>not</em> a plug and
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play OS, so it will fix the IRQs for your builtin devices. Our idea of
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"plug and play" is under our control, not the BIOS'...
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<li> my x-windows is fine, but it has the tendencies to produce errors when I
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shut it down
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Maybe Kenneth Harker's Linux on Laptops resource page
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(<a href="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/"
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>http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/kharker/linux-laptop/</a>)
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has a link to someone else with the same model?
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Positive surprises:
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<li> the power management is better than with winslows
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Well, we try, anyway.
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<li> the xconfigurator had no problem at all with my lcd-screen, but I knew
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the necessary settings
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Luckily most configurators have a pick for LCD screen these days.
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<li> the mouse (IBM track point) work better than with win (finer configurable)
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Mice and many other input widgets, we do pretty well.
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Anyway, mr. answerguy, if you know how I could get my soundcard or modem to
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work, I'd be really happy. (PS, I've been through the HowTo's and am
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currently using an external modem, which is not too nifty on a mobile
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computer)
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I highly recommend a PCMCIA based modem instead of a clunky box-model.
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Ambicom makes nice solid cardbus modems which are not "winmodems" either.
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Regards and Shalom,
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<br>Philipp Schl<68>ter
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Best of luck! -- Heather
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