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