SuSE 9.0 Pro on ThinkPad R50p?
I'm thinking about upgrading from a Thinkpad A22p to the new R50p (it seems that the A-series is gone). So I'm wondering if the hardware will cause any problems. Specifically the ATI Mobility FIREGL T2 graphics (will the 3D work?), the Intel Pro gigabit ethernet/Wi-Fi components and the DVD RW drive. Has anyone had any experience with this computer or these components under SuSE 9.0? -- Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards (( Torkild Ulvøy Resheim, Senior Systemutvikler / Software Engineer )) Emma EDB AS, Trondheim, Norway. http://www.emmaedb.no |----|_ Private pages: http://resheim.no - "Any sufficiently advanced | | ) bug is indistinguishable from a feature." |____|´
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 05:25, Torkild Ulvøy Resheim wrote:
I'm thinking about upgrading from a Thinkpad A22p to the new R50p (it seems that the A-series is gone). So I'm wondering if the hardware will cause any problems. Specifically the ATI Mobility FIREGL T2 graphics (will the 3D work?), the Intel Pro gigabit ethernet/Wi-Fi components and the DVD RW drive. Has anyone had any experience with this computer or these components under SuSE 9.0?
Hi - I just got a new X31, so not quite the same model you're looking at. Here's a link to a useful site. Although this is for the X31, it will probably cover many of the issues on the R50p. http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/s.zachariadis/x31.html SUSE 9.0 Pro installed on my (dual-booted) X31 perfectly. The only thing that is not perfect is acpi. I forgot to install with acpi=off, so the acpi support isn't quite right apparently. Since I'm too lazy to rebuild the kernel for features that aren't seriously important to me (I almost never travel so battery life isn't crucial), I left it. The X31 has the ATI Mobility graphics - no problem. My model also has built-in IBM Triband (802.11/a/b/g) wireless which is all I had to fiddle with. For this, I was politically incorrect and used Linuxant's driverloader, although have been told the madwifi driver works. Short answer - SUSE was smart and works great. If you want more information about the nuts-and-bolts of my experience with the X31, you can contact me off-list in case this might be OT for this mailing list. Malke -- "I have a cunning plan..."
Hi - I just got a new X31, so not quite the same model you're looking at. Here's a link to a useful site. Although this is for the X31, it will probably cover many of the issues on the R50p.
http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/s.zachariadis/x31.html
SUSE 9.0 Pro installed on my (dual-booted) X31 perfectly. The only thing that is not perfect is acpi. I forgot to install with acpi=off, so the acpi support isn't quite right apparently. Since I'm too lazy to rebuild the kernel for features that aren't seriously important to me (I almost never travel so battery life isn't crucial), I left it.
The X31 has the ATI Mobility graphics - no problem. My model also has built-in IBM Triband (802.11/a/b/g) wireless which is all I had to fiddle with. For this, I was politically incorrect and used Linuxant's driverloader, although have been told the madwifi driver works.
Short answer - SUSE was smart and works great. If you want more information about the nuts-and-bolts of my experience with the X31, you can contact me off-list in case this might be OT for this mailing list. [snip] Thanks Malke :-) I see that ATI even provides "linux certified" drivers for
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 14:45, Malke Routh wrote: [snip] the FireGL T2 so I guess that is not a problem. Adding your information to the calculation I think the R50p will do nicely. -- Med vennlig hilsen / Kind regards (( Torkild Ulvøy Resheim, Senior Systemutvikler / Software Engineer )) Emma EDB AS, Trondheim, Norway. http://www.emmaedb.no |----|_ Private pages: http://resheim.no - "Any sufficiently advanced | | ) bug is indistinguishable from a feature." |____|´
Torkild Ulvøy Resheim wrote:
[snip] Thanks Malke :-) I see that ATI even provides "linux certified" drivers for the FireGL T2 so I guess that is not a problem. Adding your information to the calculation I think the R50p will do nicely.
I'll chime in also... SuSE 9.0 installed perfectly on my R40. As has already been said acpi didn't work, but apm does, so as long as you stick acpi=off in grub all the laptop specific features (sleep, resume, cpu speed switching) work fine. Wait, let me take that back, I also had to disable cpufeqd to get the intel speedstep to work. Not sure what wireless card you'll be getting but I have the Cisco Airo 350 (sold as an IBM card) which was a little tricky to get configured. I'd recommend Fabrice Bellet's excellent driver (http://bellet.info/~bellet/laptop/airo_mpi-20031023.tar.gz) (which I believe was integrated into the 2.6 kernel). I'd also recommend this list: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org for lot's of helpful people with useful information. Finally, I checked and IBM does certify SuSE for the R50: http://www-1.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&q1=r50&q2=linux&uid=psg1MIGR-48NT8D&loc=en_US&cs=utf-8&cc=us&lang=en
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I'm thinking about upgrading from a Thinkpad A22p to the new R50p (it seems that the A-series is gone). So I'm wondering if the hardware will cause any problems. Specifically the ATI Mobility FIREGL T2 graphics (will the 3D work?), the Intel Pro gigabit ethernet/Wi-Fi components and the DVD RW drive. Has anyone had any experience with this computer or these components under SuSE 9.0?
I have put SuSE 9.0 on a T41 (no p). I did a network installation in safe mode (no ACPI, no APM, no IDE DMA). I turned all but APCI back on after installation. 3D acceleration works (1200 pfs in glxgears @ 1400x1050). Intel Pro wireless (centrino) works with the linuxant driver wrapper and the drivers from WinXP. The NIC uses the e1000 driver. I have not tried reading DVDs or buring CD-Rs yet. The kraxel 2.6.2-6 kernel works. The Open Source ndiswrapper w/ 2.6.2 locks it up solid requiring a power cycle and e2fsck from a rescue disk. I haven't tried much 2.6.2 w/o WiFI. I am still learning and configuring. There is a linux on thinkpads web site and e-mail list. http://www.linux-thinkpad.org/ http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad HTH, Jeffrey
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