Laptop/Notebook support

[Satish Balay]

On Thu, 27 May 2004, Cam wrote:

> Satish Balay wrote:
>
>> Which machine is this? perhaps others have similar hardware.
>
> It's a Sharp PC AR50 (Pentium III 800MHz), I think it's fairly unusual, no 
> sign of support in the UK or any BIOS upgrades...
>
>
>> FWIW I use an IBM Thinipad T40 - which works reasonably well with APM
>
> So far there are reports of several machines of the same vintage as my 
> current one, possibly working with APM or ACPI. It sounds like I would 
> struggle to buy a new machine that would work out of the box :(

This might not be very relavent - but I thought I'd mention.

- You could try FC1 and see if it works. It is 2.4 kernel based. 
- Some of the suspend/resume problems folks encountered were
   attributed to video driver.  You might want to check that out..

Satish