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Hi!

I have a T42p running Windows XP, but I also have a X21 running Fedora Core 3 Linux. Everything works except modem, but only because I did never tried since I have no analog telephone anymore.

What I just wanted to say is that I also got the blue button (scrolling) working in X window. This blue button is one of the coolest things on a ThinkPad and I wanted it to work on my X21 under Linux.

The tool is called tp-scroll and can be found here: http://rsim.cs.uiuc.edu/~sachs/tp-scroll/

Therefore I had only set some options in my xorg.conf and it worked (T42). You can find them in nearly any howto regarding the T-Series and Linux.

But another question :
How can I activate the pageflip buttons above the cursor buttons (pageflip left and right).
I saw this function only very short when I had to boot once in the windows system, but it might quite be interessting to have this work under Linux as well.

Regrads
Andreas

Hi Andreas,

the X21 does not have this buttons!

T42p has them, but I don't use them?

How did you solve the suspend-to-disk? Does it work? The X21 has the very neat feature, that it has this function in BIOS, so pressing Fn-F12 suspends the ram to disk! Perfect!

...darko

Suspend to disc "worked" perfectly. I say this in past, because I bought some extra RAM so that I have 1 GB, but only had a swap part around 500MB.
I reinstalled the system (because I had to), but didnt think about resizing the swap.
So, after all, suspend to disc works and sometimes not. And I havent found any pattern or reason why it switches.

I am using Kubuntu Hoary on my T42 and it worked mostly out of the box.
I reinstalled / renewed some programs like powernowd and configured all parts and then also suspend to disc worked.

So I did nothing special.

Dont know much about Fedora, but like Suse, Fedora should also be well configured, if you install the necessary components.

Regards
Andreas

AndreasMeier wrote:Suspend to disc "worked" perfectly. I say this in past, because I bought some extra RAM so that I have 1 GB, but only had a swap part around 500MB.

You could give http://www.suspend2.net a try, it can be configured to write the memery content into an ordinary file instead of the swap partition.

Yes thanks, but I want to go with it as it is.
Perhaps I will kill my swap partition and resize it manually, in order to get 1GB swap for always correct working suspend

Regards
Andreas

Under Unix i usually configure the swapsize about 2,5 times greater than physical memory.

AndreasMeier wrote:How can I activate the pageflip buttons above the cursor buttons (pageflip left and right)?

Use /usr/X11R6/bin/xev to figure out which keycode they generate and add the appropriate lines to Your ~/.xmodmap. I'm using in mine.

cheers,
-- fish