Re: Which laptop?

["Jarod Wilson" <user=74@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Dec 28, 2007, at 00:07, Jarod Wilson wrote: 
> Laptop arrived yesterday, been tinkering with it quite a bit   
> since... Thus far, as I'd expected, everything pretty much Just   
> Works. The only things I've encountered that don't work under Linux   
> so far are the mute button (which is a little odd, since the volume   
> up and down buttons right next to it work right out of the box) and   
> the screen brightness buttons -- Gnome registers them as pressed,   
> but the LCD doesn't change. Supposedly, this is because ThinkPads   
> don't handle LCD backlighting via generic ACPI calls, a lot of it   
> is done through other BIOS magic -- which makes sense, given that   
> the LCD *does* happily dim itself when I go from AC to battery,   
> along with the BIOS-driven beep to let me know power was   
> disconnected (also brightens back up and beeps again going back to   
> AC). 
> 
> So no problems whatsoever driving the display at 1680x1050 w/the   
> intel driver (complete with compiz eye candy), wireless works   
> immediately after install, can burn dvds, trackpad and   
> trackpointerthing both work, and the majority of the non-standard   
> keys on the thing work. Cool. Haven't yet tested the built-in sd/cf/ 
> etc card reader.