FC1 and Laptops?

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Satish Balay wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Ross M Karchner wrote:
>
> > Hello-
> >
> > Can anybody recommend any laptops that work well with FC1? By "works
> > well" I guess I mean that things like power management, sleep/awake with
> > the closing of the lid, and (if present) video acceleration are all well
> > supported .
>
> IBM ThinkPad T40/T41 (perhasp the R series as well - avoid R40e - no APM)
>
> I currently use a T40 - which is Pentium-M 1.6GHz. Default APM works
> with suspend/resume. The kernel modeule speedstep-centrino with
> 'cpudyn' (external) package gives CPU-Frequency scaling. The graphics
> card is ATI mobile Radeon 9000 - which is supported (including 3d) by
> the default XFree86 pakage. And I've installed madwifi driver
> (external) for IBM a/b wireless card.
>
> Satish

Cool!  Must try this on my T-41.  Is there anything to put in
/etc/modules.conf so that speedstep-centrino will get loaded automatically
when cpudynd starts?

Any other useful hints for increasing battery life?

TIA.

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		Matthew Saltzman

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