> On 3/4/06, Bill Ricker <bill.n1vux at gmail.com> wrote:
> > considering a used IBM thinkpad T42
> I'm typing this on a used T42p, quite happy with Gentoo as it
> came
I'm also typing this on a T42p and I'd like to provide a data point with
regards to ATI Xorg video drivers:
+ this machine has an ATI M10 NT [FireGL Mobility T2]
+ its running Fedora Core 4
+ the livna-provided fglrx kernel modules:
+ are an RPM-repackaged version of the ATI binary-only
drivers
+ are *very* *easy* to install:
"yum install kernel-module-fglrx-2.6.15-1.1833_FC4"
+ they work nicely with ACPI S3 (suspend-to-RAM) sleep
which I use 2-3+ times per day (and I routinely
have 30+ day uptimes)
so while I'm a lot less than thrilled about the binary-only nature of
the modules I can say that they work quite nicely for all my needs.
And, AFAICT, everything else about this laptop works nicely with Linux.
Ed
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