My apologies if this has been brought up before. I tried searching on this topic and could not find anything. I have a T41p with the original multiburner option (the Matshita UJ-812B, P/N 92P6110) that only burns DVD-R and DVD-RW. However, it is supposed to read all of the +R stuff. I can usually re...

Hi, Has anyone used the ATI drivers on the ATI website for Redhat Enterprise 3 or 4 or Redhat 9 or Fedora Core 3 with the T42 w/ATI 9600? RPMs for the ATI drivers built against the FC3 kernels are availible via yum or apt at http://rpm.livna.org/ . The RPMS for my FC2 installation from this site wo...

I put Fedora Core 2 on my 2379-DYU when I got it at the end of May. At the time, I had to work pretty hard to get it going, but the latest kernel of FC2 handles pretty much everything except suspend-to-RAM and suspend-to-disk. There are even prebuit FC2 RPMs for the Atheros-based WiFi card (MadWiFi)...

A fix is now posted at http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=3326

Mofongo

With help from byron (thanks byron!), I have managed to solve the problem. Both Windows and Battery MaxiMiser save power schemes in the registry in HKEY_CURRENT_USERS/Control Panel/PowerCfg/PowerPolicies. A symptom of the problem seems to be and enormous (>80!) number of entries in PowerPolicies. Ho...

I have seen this problem reported once before along with a possible fix, but the fix did not work for me. I was wondering if anyone else has experienced this: About a month or so ago, I suddenly noticed that the Battery MaxiMiser only had 2 power schemes: "Super Power Saver" and "Presentation (with ...

Bluetooth will not show up in the device manager until you actually turn it on. Just hit Fn-F5 and turn on the Bluetooth radio. You should then see the Bluetooth symbol LED (to the right of the WiFi LED) light up.

If you don't have the LED, then you don't have Bluetooth.

Mofongo

Can I turn off the Wireless Zero Configuration service if I am using IBM Access Connections?

Thanks,

Mofongo

I have a linksys 11b router and it's about a foot to the right of my monitor and I don't have any problems. As long as the antennas are hooked up right, you should get good signal strength. I have never changed a mini-PCI card myself, but others have told me reconnecting the antenna leads well can s...

One thing that tripped me up for hours with my T42 is that the modem is different than the T41/T40 and the entire R series as well. Instead of being a Agere Softmodem, it is a Conexant HSF softmodem. The advantage of the Conexant is that there are professionally-made linux drivers for it. I bet that...

No...I don't actually own any pcmcia cards. The one thing I do notice is that swsusp2 seems to have problems restarting the pcmcia service.

Mofongo

In your document you say, "You should be aware of 2 things, however. Firstly, although CPUFREQ (and kernel module "speedstep-centrino") was supported in FC1, it is not in FC2." FC2 does have CPUFREQ and speedstep-centrino compiled into the stock kernel (no modules). In order to work with the Dothan...

Mofongo, thanks for the great web page. It will save us all a lot of headache. A few questions about your install: After shrinking the NTFS, what was your final partition scheme? Where did you install GRUB...boot partition or MBR? If you went with /boot, did you use Partiton Magic or fdisk to set a...

I see all of these on mine, plus I have two extra files in IBMSHARE: sysinfo.ini and sysinfo.xml. These just contain a couple of text lines about BIOS version, model, serial number, processor, etc.

Mofongo

The fan in mine is almost totally silent. Even when it's actually running at higher speed, it's barely audible. It only does this when I am doing something compute-intensive. The other 90% of the time, I cannot even tell if it is running, because I cannot actually hear anything. I used to think it w...

please verify...it DOES weigh 1lb. more?? It certainly does not feel like 1 pound more. My friend and I (he owns a T40) performed a blind test on each other where the one closed his eyes and put out his arms, and the other placed a randomly chosen model (14" T40 or 15" T42) in his hands. Niether of...

Although I prefer the 14" form factor to the 15", I got the latter in order to get the Flexview screen. I love the Flexview screen! Although it' is slightly bulkier and heavier when you compare it side-to-side to the 14" unit, in the real world I notice absolutely no difference in how portable I fin...

My Dlink DI-624 tends to be finicky (sp?) I often get kicked off (T42). My wife's T40 also gets kicked off. Actually, it seems to lose the DSL connection, and knock off all the systems at the same time. I don't really know if it is the router or the phone company, but I'd tend to blame it on the ro...

I have the 5K80 drive, and when I wan PC Doctor, I noticed that it also failed the SMART Short test, but the error was "Aborted by Host". I ran the short test again and it passed. I think this particular error message is nothing to worry about because something probably happened in software that cau...

The 15" display does draw more power than the 14.1". Exact specs are on several older threads.

I get 3.5 hours out of my 15" UXGA with contrast on low and aggressive power saving on (but with wireless on as well). I think the norm for 14" is a little over 4 hours.

Mofongo

http://pmw.org/~gardnerj/Thinkpad/Install.html

Mofongo

7200 rpm hard drive certainly drain the battery quicker Where did you get this information from? Go to the Hitachi website and compare power requirements for the 5K and 7K drives. You will see that they are practically identical except that the 7K uses slightly more power to spin-up. In the real wo...

Express models are simply models that IBM produces in large quantities so they can discount them. In other words, they reward you for not being quite as picky about your configuration by letting you save a couple of $100. You can also get either a 1-year warranty (2378 models) or a 3-year warranty (...

Leon and fox_napier, Odds are that you will get your Thinkpad tomorrow ! Hong Kong is 15 hours ahead of the west coast and 16 or 17 hours ahead of Alaska, which is usually the first stop from HK. So your Thinkpad will actually hit the U.S. "before" it left HK. It will make it to somewhere in the mid...

Hmmm...so I reread this thread and noticed that there was also a bigger discrepancy between your 2373CYU and your current GRU, even though they, too, should be the same (except for graphics). Here's a table (apologies for poor formatting): Benchmark___________2379DYU_____2373GRU_____2373CYU ========...

At any rate, both machines are excellent. I'll play some games for a bit to get the system running at full temp, then reboot and try some benchmarks again. Also, there's a handy utility called "EndItAll" from PCMag that kills off all non-essential background processes. After you turn off networking...

It's a different modem supplier. The old ones were Agere SoftModems, which IBM has used in all the Thinkpads that I have seen in the last few years. Starting with the T42 (and just with the T42...the R50s still use Agere), it's a Conexant HSL/Softmodem. I am not totally sure why they did this. My th...

Hmm...The version of SiSoft Sandra is the exact same as yours: 2004.7.9.129. I have power management set to High Performance, and Bluetooth, Wifi, gigabit, anti-virus, and APS off. I just reran the CPU benchmarks and got exactly (within 2 points) of what I posted earlier. That is indeed very strange...

It's most likely a problem with DHCP, either with your router or with your ISP. First thing to try is just power cycle the router, then try connecting again. If this does not work, read on. DHCP is "Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol". When your router connects to your ISP, a DHCP server somewhere ...

2379-DYU Benchmarks: Specs are 2379-DYU (5400RPM) vs. 2373-GRU (7200RPM). Both have 1.8GHz Dothan. SiSoft Sandra 2004: CPU-Dhrystone ALU: 7626 MIPS vs. 5650 (!!) CPU-Whetston iSSE2: 3148 MFlops vs. ?? CPU-Int: 16830 vs. 17135 CPU-Flt: 18576 vs. 18870 Mem-Int diSSE2: 2258 vs. 2282 Mem-Flt diSSE2 2236...