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> I'm new to this list. I just received a Thinkpad 750C with > 12meg RAM & 340meg HD. I'll run Windows and (hopefully) Linux. > > Regarding Linux: anyone successfully install Linux on their > thinkpad???? if so, how'd you do it? I had linux running on my tp750 (mono). It wasn't easy to get up and running; I had to patch the kernel in a few places, and use the UMSDOS hack to actually get a file system on the disk. The main problem: linux doesn't deal with the 2.88 Mb floppy controller; also linux uses the disk change signal, which works differently on the tp750 than on most PCs. (Eventually I got the floppy driver to actually read/write 1.44 Mb disks, but the disk change line still didn't work, so if you swapped floppies the old cached data wasn't invalidated.) > how well does Xfree work > with the thinkpad chipset (256 colors?)? I used the monochrome driver; it worked fine once I figured out the clock values. I didn't have a color display to try. > do the thinkpad power > saving abilities still work (suspend, etc) in linux? No. Actually it's quite annoying. Even the power switch doesn't work reliably. > I tried to install the slackware linux release (my copy is about 3-4 > months old), and could not even make it past the first disk. Seems > to me that the Linux kernel did not recognize the drive type > reported by the Thinkpad floppy!! (probably because it is reporting > a slightly different type number due to its 2.88 meg capability). That's right. I just duplicated the type 4 entry for the type 5 and 6 slots. But there are other problems as well. Versions of linux after 0.99pl13 would just get wedged, apparently in the hard disk driver code. You can have my patched versions of kernel files by ftp-ing to cs.utk.edu, directory pub/moore/linux. I'm currently running netbsd on my thinkpad; it also required several patches, but works much better than linux did. Keith Moore