From: Jan Rychter <jan@rychter.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Centrino support
Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:58:42 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2d6f5gyrx.fsf@tnuctip.rychter.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1060980793.29086.21.camel@serpentine.internal.keyresearch.com
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>>>>> "Bryan" == Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>:
Bryan> On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 13:35, Jan Rychter wrote:
>> I keep dreaming about the day when I'll be able to have a modern
>> laptop with a stable Linux kernel. As for now, it has taken me (on
>> one of my laptops) about 1.5 years to get to a point where 2.4
>> works, most of my hardware works, and software suspend (pretty much
>> a requirement for laptops) works. I'm not about to give that up
>> easily, so I'm not that eager to jump to 2.5/2.6.
Bryan> Can't say that's been my experience. I bought a new Thinkpad
Bryan> X31 the other day, and it's already running 2.6.0-test3.
Bryan> Suspend works, all's happy.
Lucky you! That's because almost two years (or so) of heavy work by many
people went into this. Also, you're probably lucky with your Thinkpad.
When I bought this laptop (a Sharp Mebius PC-MT1-H5) back in Sept 2001,
there weren't many machines on the market that had only ACPI (and no
APM). And Linux ACPI wasn't in a very sane state back then, not to
mention swsusp. It took almost two years for the software to mature, and
only recently did I get a stable machine that I can work on for a month
without rebooting (suspending/resuming several times a day).
I've just gotten a Centrino-based Toshiba Dynabook SS S7/290LNKW, and
the story continues -- I've already hit at least two ACPI bugs, while
swsusp problems seem to have been ironed out thanks to hard work by
Nigel Cunningham. And of course, the built-in wireless card does not
work. My guess is another 6 months (if not more) until Linux works on
it.
--J.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-08-17 19:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-15 18:13 Centrino support Jan Rychter
2003-08-15 18:29 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-15 18:33 ` Martin List-Petersen
2003-08-15 18:40 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-15 20:24 ` Christian Axelsson
2003-08-15 20:35 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-08-15 20:55 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-15 21:22 ` Martin List-Petersen
2003-08-16 22:32 ` insecure
2003-08-17 4:16 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-15 20:35 ` Jan Rychter
2003-08-15 20:53 ` Bryan O'Sullivan
2003-08-16 19:58 ` Jan Rychter [this message]
2003-08-16 14:23 ` Dave Jones
2003-08-16 15:12 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-18 23:52 ` Rob Landley
2003-08-15 20:46 ` Brandon Stewart
2003-08-16 10:34 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2003-08-16 19:58 ` Jan Rychter
2003-08-17 19:17 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-17 19:24 ` Alan Cox
2003-08-16 11:27 ` Tomas Szepe
2003-08-18 8:31 ` Helge Hafting
2003-08-19 21:15 ` James H. Cloos Jr.
2003-08-19 23:55 ` Jamie Lokier
2003-08-21 19:33 ` Micha Feigin
2003-08-17 20:07 ` Jussi Laako
2003-08-15 20:32 Jean Tourrilhes
2003-08-15 22:36 Ricardo Galli
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