kernel 2.6.11-1.1287_FC4 and Thinpad T20

[Michael A. Peters]

IBM Thinkpad T20, 700MHz
selinux disabled, rhgb disabled

On some kernels, X11 would fail to start some of the time.
rhgb would run but when gdm started, sometimes I would not get a login
screen, could not ping machine. If I did get to gdm login screen, its
rock solid stable after that.

Disabled rhgb - still was a problem sometimes, so rhgb was not at fault
- but I left it disabled anyway.
It is NOT a problem with knoppix, so its not a hardware issue.

Virtual consoles also do not work in runlevel 5 (haven't tried others)

kernel 2.6.11-1.1284_FC4 seemed better - virtual consoles still didn't
work, but I seemed to have no problems booting to runlevel 5. If it
still was a problem in that kernel, I just have been lucky.

kernel 2.6.11-1.1287_FC4 - have not had a successful boot to runlevel 5
- happens every time I try, switching to 1284 in grub and it boots into
runlevel 5 just fine.

[mpeters at laptop ~]$ /sbin/lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host
bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP
bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:03.0 Communication controller: Agere Systems (former Lucent
Microelectronics) WinModem 56k (rev 01)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24
[CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev
01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev
01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev
11)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212
802.11abg NIC (rev 01)

I do boot with acpi=force - I don't know if that's an issue or not.
Interestingly, w/o acpi=force, when docked if xscreensaver comes on, I
can't move external mouse to get the xscreensaver password box -
acpi=force and I can. But that's the least of my worries, only mentioned
in case it's an acpi issue I'm seeing.