Re: How about the support of FC for laptop?

[Kyrre Ness Sjobak <kyrre solution-forge net>]

man, 01.11.2004 kl. 06.28 skrev Jeff Pitman:
> On Monday 01 November 2004 06:51, Michael A. Peters wrote:
> > I've had nothing but good experiences with thinkpads and linux.
> 
> Heat dissipation (fan doesn't spin when it should) and APM/ACPI sleep 
> don't work are the worst things about T30 and related laptops.
> 
> > I don't know if modern thinkpads are 3 button or not, never used one.
> 
> Most have three buttons now.  If you have the combo-NAV thingy, you have 
> to disable touchpad in the BIOS to get the middle mouse button to work.  
> 
> Now if IBM would write and/or test all of their drivers under Linux, 
> that would be a great day...  Hope is on the way though: 
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2004/10/19/15
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/ThinkWiki
> http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
> 
> Would be great, though, if we could somehow coax Kudzu into detecting a 
> laptop and then config the beast to run instead of relying on random 
> HOWTOs everywhere.  Guess it would require a mini "Fedora 4 Laptop" 
> project to get going and pipe the output into the fedora-config team.
> 

there is something called "laptop detect" floating around. I saw it in
an ubuntu install once...

> -- 
> -jeff