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Hello Ted, > > I just bought a TP755CX, whose main claims to greatness are the > Pentium processor and 800x600 display. It somes with 8Mbytes of > RAM and 810 Mbytes of disk. I added a 32Mbyte RAM card, since I > plan on doing big compiles, and would like to speed these up using > a RAM disk. What a wonderful config you've got ! I do only have a poor 360CSE with 4Mb of RAM and 340Mb of disk space. I am running DOS/Windows on a small compressed paritition (40MB) and the left room is used by Linux. > > I also ordered an IBM PCMCIA ethernet card, version II, which I > have sent back. My plan was to ftp Slackware via the ethernet > onto the disk using DOS, and install it from ther. This did not > work very well, since I could not find a (DOS) packet driver for > that PCMCIA card, and IBM supplies it with a male RJ45 connector. > Between trying to adapt the gender of the connector and the lack > of packet driver, I was frustrated enough to send the card back to > IBM. I have also been disappointed by the Ethernet Card. A few weeks ago, I purchased a Xircom PCMCIA Card. I thought it was supported by the Linux PCMCIA package from David Hinds, but apparently, it is not. There seems to be a problem with Xircom not publishing the technical information about their cards. Checking with the customer service, it seems that we have to buy a developpers kit ! The card does, of course, run under r DOS/Windows but it's useless for me. I think I'd better buy a simple (less efficient) D-Link card which it supported by both operating systems. > I still have the following problems: > > 1. APM only partly works. If I use the daemon, it does put the > screen into sleep mode after a period of idleness, but it keeps > the disk running, and if I use the fcn-key bindings to idle the > machine, it locks up. Killing the daemon restored use of the > key bindings. I don't know how to proceed on this without some > documentation on the TP's apm controller and bios. Can't help you on this point > > 2. When you come out of X11, the tty video controller is left in > a weird state. Portions of the line seem to be overwritten, > and shifted slightly, so that you end up with some characters > duplicated and overwritten. It is useless until you power down > the system. OK, this is a classical problem with Thinkpads, I do have the same problem. The trick is as follow to avoid rebooting: On exit from X11, you must press the Fn+F7 key and you'll get the text screen again. > > 3. No amount of fiddling with XF86Config gave access to the 800x600 > pixel mode. Looking at the clock numbers reported by the SVGA driver, > from several experiments between which I used the display in 800x600 > vis DOS/Windows, I see differences that indicate one probably needs > to reprogram the controller to adjust the clock rate. Do not have enough pixels on my display to help you here !!! > > 4. I guess I am going to have to sacrifice all the neat > functionality of the DSP, including modem and sound card services, > since I've not seen anything on the net about support for that > under Linux. > No on-board modem on my Thinkpad but just a PCMCIA one (which seems OK : supported !) -------------------------------------------------------------------- St'ephane ERANIAN | Email eranian@chorus.fr Universit'e PARIS VII | eranian@litp.ibp.fr LITP - Laboratoire d'Informatique | Th'eorique et Programmation | 2 place Jussieu | 75251 Paris cedex 05 | --------------------------------------------------------------------