Hmm... no 2nd T400 unfortunately. Would a T60 screen w/ CCFL work too? I.e. could I connect the T60's CCFL to the T400 inverter and vice versa or would this blow the tube or anything else? I'm unsure about the standards re voltage, frequency and alike..

Txs for your help

I've replaced CCFL, inverter' display cable and system board. Still no background light. What now?

Thanks for the hint. Where would I find the fuses?...the repair manual doesn't contain any information, unless I overlooked something. Txs again

The background light died a while ago. I've replace CCFL, display cable and inverter - no change. The display works. What am I missing?

2nd question: Can some kind soul point me to a LED replacement for the CCFL?

bluesceada wrote:Yeh the differences between 45% and 82% are too huge.
But between 82% and 75% it is quite possible. Especially wifi-antenna connections...

Agreed - but keep in mind that the initial difference (on another floor of the building) has been 25% vs 82%

The SAME machine with one time Ubuntu as the OS and one time XP, or two theoretical identical machines? No machine is identical to another, there are always variances in the production.... (The same with the location by the way, depends on monitor tilt etc., a milimeter at a different position does...

bluesceada wrote:You also can't compare two different machines... One might just have a better connected antenna than the other, these can be quite sensible.

As stated in the initial post: 2 identical machines

Ubuntu 8.10 is afaik the first version using ath5k by default, and that version is pretty new. Try the most recent ath5k (upgrade to newest kernel or get compat-wireless from http://wireless.kernel.org ) and/or the old madwifi ( http://madwifi-project.org ) driver. Just downloaded the latest code f...

There are two different linux drivers for AR5212, madwifi and atk5k. Madwifi is older, but probably still more stable. In any case, try the other one. Updating to the newest version probably helps, too. Which version of ubuntu are you using? Linux michael 2.6.27-11-generic #1 SMP Thu Jan 29 19:24:3...

The reported percentage is essentially fictional, and cannot be compared between different drivers and/or hardware. Its standard practice to "optimize" drivers to report higher numbers as it makes the customers happy. Same with the "bars" on cell phones... there have been firmware updates for phone...

Both are running on Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC

I have 2 similar T60's at hand. One is running XP, the other Ubuntu. The Ubuntu machine reports 25% signal strength, the Windows machine reports 82% - both at the exactly same location.

Appreciate any idea what causes this issue... Txs

I think it's worthwhile to share some experience... This is was about my 4th attempt to get a TP up and running on Linux. I've experimented with Fedora, Mint and some others before... this time I got serious. It took me about 2 hours to have my Windos environment largely replicated with Ubuntu on a ...

Marin85 wrote:For Ubuntu 8.xx trackpoint speed and sensitivity: (as root)

gksudo will do as well ?

mgw, Not sure if you found this on Thinkwiki or not, but here's their page on how to configure the trackpoint (not the touchpad, which would be something separate): http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_configure_the_TrackPoint I found this on google, and may be more what you're looking for: http://...

aaa wrote:There is the graphical gsynaptics tool, after you install it, it'll show up in System->Preferences->Touchpad, You have to enable SHMConfig first though, which isn't as easy.:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad

Touchpad == Track Point ?

Thinkwiki is your friend: http://www.thinkwiki.org I think GNOME has a GUI for doing this, but here's how I adjust the speed and sensitivity. As root (or sudo) enter the following: echo -n 160 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/speed echo -n 218 > /sys/devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/...

My 600X's TFT has given up - actually the backlight stopped working, as best as I can tell.

I am looking a new LP133X5 - ebay appears to have used or refurbished only.

Any advise highly welcome.

Your syntax is wrong. It's echo -n value /path/to/file not echo -n 120 /path/to/file value Sorry if my previous post wasn't clear. So, for example, if you wanted to try the value of of 210 (I'm assuming that's what you wanted, going off your post), then you would enter the following as root : echo ...

How to obtain a Trackpoint driver? I can't adjust speed and sensitivity

Appears to become difficult with "Windows compatibility" requirements and games. What do you mean by "difficult"? I haven't come across a distro yet that works well with Windows games or programs (and I don't expect to). Wine is okay with certain apps, (I got Civ IV and Dreamweaver to run, but that...

whizkid wrote:

mgw wrote:So what's the vote on Ubuntu... anything better?

What do you mean by better?

Fair enough - "user friendly" like in painless installation and does things "out of the box".

Downloaded Ubuntu 8.10 last evening. Installation on a seperate HDD took about 30 min. Package downloads another 30 min. Painless setup of WLAN. I like the Evolution email... slick compared with Thunderbird. Localization works well. So far...

I've tried Mint. Looks ok but appears to be "difficult" with WLAN and other extensiuons. Same with Fedora as well. I agree on the "tinker" statement... Least painfull was Ubuntu so far IMHO. Localizes easily (language) and I was up and running with WLAN, Firefox, Thunderbird, OO pretty quickly. Appe...

So... what's the vote? Ubuntu, DSL, Puppy, Mint? My kid's school is driving me mad... They purchased a $%&/ MS license for the state. Anyhow, I got them hung-up on OpenOffice, Firefox and Thunderbird on their XP machinery, that causes all kinds of trouble on a daily basis. Perfect would be a world t...

I wonder what is the fastest P3M fitting in a 600X and which related parts need replacement?

I presume there's no chance to get beyond the 5xx MB boundary, right?

Anybody out there that re-painted (or is it re-coated?) a 600? Who is delivering the sticky black dots (screwe covers)?

:roll: The LCD went dark. Putting light on it with a Maglite shows that the matrix is working correctly, so apparently a backlight issue. I replaced the inverter and I'm awaiting a new display cable to be delivered within the next couple o'days. What's odd ist that the screen is enlighted upon boot ...