I occassionally play F.E.A.R. and it looks nice.

I can't really judge though since this is the first FPS I've ever played, more or less. I did play "Pathways into Darkness" many years ago. It looks better than that.

I just use the stock drivers that came with my T60p. It is good enough for me.

My battery, when plugged in with the AC adapter, would read 0%, indicate that it is charging, and when I looked at the details, it would say that the battery is fine. It would not charge though, and after a few hours the battery indicator in the notification tray would have a big "X" through it. It ...

I had problems with my battery as well. Sent the whole machine in for servicing, it came back three days later with a new battery and seems to be working fine now.

I don't even think it's motherboard. Well, in my case it certainly was the motherboard, because I ran linux on the system, pretty much wiping out the chance of spyware or other crazy trojan software. Swapping out the hard drive in the A31p I bought for $600 (cheaper than a mother board replacement ...

I had the same problem. Stopping the Hotkey poller service had no effect for me. I was able to solve the problem by playing DVDs with VLC player. Basically, the included DVD program (whatever it was) would freeze every minute or two, and to start it again I would have to hit play/pause. VLC player d...

I had a similar problem with my ThinkPad A31. It would randomly freeze, usually about 5 minutes into a session. Mouse wouldn't move any more, sometimes there was some slight distortion of the video. I believe it was a bad motherboard - video controller actually, because I could run the system just f...

I was able to turn on Bluetooth with some bundled IBM software. It allows you to turn off the 802.11 and Bluetooth radios. I wish I could you tell you the name of it, but my OS is set to Japanese so I don't know what it is called in English. I could find no other way to turn on the bluetooth, fn-F5 ...

It sounds like what happens when I change the resolution on my Fedora Core 4 install on a ThinkPad A31p. The tools are a little strange because if you use the GUI, you have to change "Screen Resolution" but often the settings for "Display" will have the monitor set incorrectly (set to something like...

You will have to do some research, it is kind of complicated. You can try to set up xinerama for dual-head support, but if your machine has a radeon card, then you have to set up the option in the xorg.conf according to the radeon man page. I took a stab at it once, and generally it is non-obvious h...

Hi Pundit, I saw that you had owned a T60P but had returned it in favour of a Macbook Pro 15.4". I am considering something along the same lines. Some questions for you: I'm not Pundit, but I do most of my work on a 15" PowerBook, and have a T60p at home (until linux support for it gets up to snuff...

I have one of Apple's firewire iSight cameras and use that to video conference with my parents in the US (I'm in Tokyo) via iChat - it works fine across the firewalls, which surprises me since we are both behind (consumer) firewall / routers. I don't have any suggestions for you, but am really curio...

I'm currently (kind of) playing FEAR on my T60p with the V5200. The previous 3-d game I played before this was Pathways into Darkness (back on a Mac IIci) so I'm very impressed. I think the game runs great on a stock V5200 at 1024x768 with medium settings. Man that game is scary though. I've been ge...

There really is not that much info out there, yet. All the information in ThinkWiki about the video card was basically a sentance saying edit this file and it appears to work. The wireless card I assumed I could use the 2200 drivers, but I was mistaken, and I was unaware of the AHCI stuff. I got al...

You have a Mac and T60p, can you report how you like Linux compared to your Mac OS X? I would really like to hear how Linux runs on your Thinkpad. Yes, I have a 1.67 GHz G4 15" PowerBook with the 1440x960 display that I run OSX on, and like it a lot. I also have a 1.8 GHz P4M ThinkPad A31p with Fed...

The FireGL V5200 card is not supported with the fglrx driver, but you can trick the Xserver into thinking the card is a X1600, and things are reported to work well in that case. See http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/ATI_Mobility_FireGL_V5200 . I have a T60p that I would like to put linux on (and an A31p wit...

Yes, I'm in a similar situation, I have a 2007-83J T60p that is in Japanese. I would like an English install of the OS, but it isn't really critical since I understand Japanese. It just is a pain to have to stop and think to read things instead of using my native language. What is more annoying is t...

I've had this problem on my (Japanese) T60p as well. It doesn't bother me enough to try to figure out why, but the first time was quite a surprise.

I have a 14" T60p and I don't miss the 1600x1400 screen in comparison to the 15" A31p sitting next to it. It sure is a lot lighter and smaller, and I don't feel cramped for space on it. I find the A31p has text that is hard to read sometimes. I had set the T60p to use the larger fonts for a while, b...

Rons I saw that You replied in another thread about it...I mean about the possibility of seeing the results on the laptop screen and setting in bios which graphics card to use...have you tried that? Personally I don't see how that is possible because the LCD on the laptop is only connected to the i...

My next big test on this machine will be to install a distribution of Linux. How cool would that be? The three most popular operating systems all running natively on a very fast machine. :) I ordered a T60p with the intention to put linux on it as well. I have Fedora Core 4 running on an A31p (love...

I have an A31p that I run Fedora Core 4 (linux) on, and Windows XP (iTunes for about 20 minutes a day to pick up podcasts.) I use a USB2/Firewire PCMCIA card. Under linux, the card does not power my external 2.5" drive (using two cables, one for power, one for data.) Under Windows XP, the card will ...

I have a ThinkPad A31p with the 1600x1200 UXGA screen, which replaced an A31 with the 1400x1050 screen. I vastly prefer the 1400x1050 screen because the fonts are too small for some programs. Increasing the DPI setting in Windows on the video adapter makes most things bearable (a bit too large actua...

You can have up to two additional hard drives in the A31 or A31/p systems. I currently run an A31/p with an 80gig fixed drive, 80gig in the left bay, and 100gig in the right bay. If you get a hard drive adapter, you can just put in any laptop hard drive, so it is very flexible. The communication dau...

I have a 100gig drive in my right bay and a 80gig drive in the left bay in my A31p. There is no problem with either of the drives.

As far as I know, the fan on my A31 was never controllable at all under linux. You could try changing the thermal trippoints in ACPI, but I never thought it was worth the bother.

I never did find a panel applet that would do that, athough I did get a Gdesklet that used ACPI to show the CPU temp. Installing GDesklets was a bit more work, but you can do some interesting things with it. Strangely, Gdesklets.org is supposed to be the main site, but it doesn't have nearly as many...

I had a similar freezing problem with my A31. It would POST, you could cange BIOS settings, but sometimes it would hard freeze. The power light stayed on, CPU fan stayed on, hardware functions (LCD brightness up/down, ThinkLight, etc) would work, but the machine was frozen. Typically the machine wou...

I've played with the latest releases of Knoppix and Ubuntu Live CDs (both seem great), although not to an extent to notice differences between the GNOME and KDE environments. Anyone have a particular preference between GNOME and KDE, and why? That's a religious war there, and likely to incite flame...

Will you ever get rid of your old A31, do you think? - Tim I bought an A31 2652-D4U (1.6 GHz P4M) back in 2002, and loved it. I ran it 24x7 just about nonstop until now. Just recently I've had problems with it - the system will freeze, but I found out that it only freezes if it is using the video c...

I don't know if this helps, but I've had a similar problem with my A31. It wouldn't shut down completely, but just lock up (the mouse won't move, hard drive light is stuck on even though there is no hard drive access, can't switch to another TERM, can't kill the xserver, etc.) and only holding the r...