Comments in-line<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Richard Bronosky <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Richard@bronosky.com">Richard@bronosky.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
I'm pretty sure it was a T60. I know that is was Intel everything<br>
(cpu, video, wireless). My issues (from memory of early 2007)<br>
included:<br>
hibernate/suspend</blockquote><div><br></div><div>This has traditionally been an issue with linux laptops, though RHEL 5 (CentOS 5), this issue got some attention from some developers at Red Hat. Because it's been an issue for so long, I just turned these features off in the bios, so that when the lid closes, the machine still runs. I know that there are some settings around this that you can customize in GNOME power management...</div>
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power management/battery life</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I never had a problem with this, but didn't suspend/hibernate either.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
dual head without reboot [1] [2]<br>
finger print scanner</blockquote><div><br></div><div>You can get the pam library called bioapi which you can configure your fingerprint reader, or you can use another library called thinkfinger. I used bioapi because it also supported a text login, vs thinkfinger which only worked for console logins or su's in X.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"> extra/media keys</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Never had a problem with this.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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video playback weirdness after getting dual head to work</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Turns out with the intel graphics card shares system memory for graphics memory. I used to have a lot of problems with video playback as well, generally with totem (the included media player). If you go into your xorg.conf and add more ram (I upped mine to a rediculous 120MB) the problem would go away. I think the default setting for memory in the xorg.conf is something like 16MB.</div>
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[1] Luckily at MySQLConf07 Stewart Smith <a href="http://www.flamingspork.com/" target="_blank">http://www.flamingspork.com/</a><br>
introduced me to Jeff Waugh <a href="http://bethesignal.org/about/" target="_blank">http://bethesignal.org/about/</a> who along<br>
with Ross Burton <a href="http://burtonini.com/" target="_blank">http://burtonini.com/</a> and Keith Packard<br>
<a href="http://keithp.com/" target="_blank">http://keithp.com/</a> got me working. That's a lot of fire power required<br>
for such a common need.<br>
[2] I interviewed 70+ of Linux laptop toters are the conference and<br>
only 3 of them could use an external display without rebooting. JW was<br>
the only one who knew what he did to make it happen.<br>
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.!# RichardBronosky #!.<br>
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