Linux on a laptop ... step 2?

[Ed Hill]

On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 00:45 -0400, William Ricker wrote:
> Silly me, i thought loading Ubuntu on a used IBM ThinkPad T23 would be
> easy. Well it mostly works, but I got a wakeup call when it overheated.

> Any other warnings?

Hi Bill,

Fedora Core 3 has a nice set of ibm-acpi tools thats included with the
stock distro.  I've had good results on both an older ThinkPad A22p and
a new ThinkPad T42p.  Both have essentially all of the ACPI
functionality working including the dynamic CPU clocking, the fan, S3
sleep/awake, etc.

The only "tweak" I had to make was to add the following kernel options

  pci=noacpi acpi_sleep=s3_bios

to get ACPI S3 working on the T42p.

Ed

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