[KLUG Members] Thinkpad T22 Ubuntu 6.10 Install

[Peter Bart]

On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:04 -0800, Nikolas Reist wrote:
> Try an lspci to find your video card, or what module is being used in
> the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file.  That will tell you whether you will need
> a third party driver or not.  If the card is ati or nvidia you most
> likely will.  Make sure any plug and play is disabled in the IBM Bios
> so it doesn't conflict with the kernel parameters.
> 

Nik,
	Are you referring to the the random freezing problem I'm having with
6.06 or the modifications to the 'xorg.conf' I made for 6.10?



> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Peter Bart <peter at petertheplumber.net>
> To: The main KLUG mailing list. <members at kalamazoolinux.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2006 9:57:44 PM
> Subject: [KLUG Members] Thinkpad T22 Ubuntu 6.10 Install
> 
> Hi Everyone,
>     Just an update on my adventures. Fresh on the heels of my Ubuntu
> 6.06
> install on a similar machine, I tried to install the same on a T22
> Thinkpad. It didn't work so well; suspend and resume broke; but I read
> a
> post on the Ubuntu forums that version 6.10 solved those problems. It
> did indeed but it wasn't w/o it's own problems. Apparently X has
> problems with the LCD screen. The fix described here
> <http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_on_a_ThinkPad_T21>
> solved that. I did just the first part; up to and including step 6;
> not
> the additional steps. I finished updating the install from the
> included
> repositories and checked that suspend/resume did in fact work. I'll
> finish adding all the goodies tomorrow.
>     So far Ubuntu/Gnome has impressed me. I'm still getting used to
> the
> 'sudo' concept but it works. I do have a slight problem with 6.06 on
> the
> T30 randomly freezing. So far days apart and seemingly random.
> 
> Regards,
> 

> 
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