Thinkpad, Thinkpad, Thinkpad

[Tom London]

On 3/27/06, Eric S. Raymond <esr at thyrsus.com> wrote:
> Joe Desbonnet <jdesbonnet at gmail.com>:
> > The Thinkpad seems to be cropping up alot in bug reports...
>
> No surprise there.  It's the elite laptop, and has been since it
> displaced the Sony VAIOs some time back.  I don't think I've met a
> Linux hacker in the last five years who carried anything else for
> reasons other than costs-too-much.
>
> >                                                     after a
> > lot of sweat and tears I have regained most of my Thinkpad's
> > functionality since the upgrade (actually a fresh install repeated
> > several times).
>
> Have you managed to get suspend/resume to work reliably?  On my X40
> the situation is bad...
>
> > Another solution which will probably take too much work: make some
> > sort of LiveCD with sufficient functionality to test all the hardware
> > compatibility.
>
> If anyone out there does this, I'm willing to test it and send in prompt
> and detailed bug reports.
> --
>                 <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>
>
I've gotten suspend/resume working on my X4.

See: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184033
for some details.

tom
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Tom London