ThinkPad arrives early
Much to my shock the ThinkPad T42 I ordered arrived at my office the day after it shipped. It was so distracting I had to go put it in my car in the parking deck so I could stay focused on work. I am watching it pull down the last of a few hundred megs of initial install packages, eagerly awaiting the reboot into gdm before hitting the sack.
My last post about Apple’s Mail application got quite a bit of traffic both via comments and email. Thanks to all who responded, even the crabby ones. 8^) Some of my Debian associates pointed out that I could have set up an temporary IMAP server and moved the mail over via my client. As one other Debian person pointed out on the #debian-devel IRC channel, setting up an IMAP server is worth way more than US$25.00 at this stage of my life.
Google shows that quite a bit of documentation is on the web for running Linux on the T42; a welcome site. If any of you long-time Debian ThinkPadders have recommendations or favorite hacks/tunings, feel free to share.
Now I have to make sure and get my contact email like I promised Martin Krafft I would.
ThinkWiki is a great source of info for Linux on Thinkpads. Make sure to install the tpb package for OSD display of various button pushes. For proper acpi functionality, make sure you’ve got ibm_acpi in /etc/modules, and you may need to add “pci=noacpi acpi_sleep=s3_bios” to your kernel parameters to get suspend to work properly. Oh and if you want to use suspend to disk, add a resume=/dev/swap_partition to your kernel args as well. While you’re at it the vga mode for a 1400×1050 console is 834, and video=vesa:mtrr,ywrap works quite well.
Comment by tomchuk — July 28, 2005 @ 1:00 am
Excellent! Thanks a ton. I’ll check these out today.
Comment by Barry Hawkins — July 28, 2005 @ 7:42 am