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Anyone here install it on a T42p?, any issues with the ATI card and 3D?, or any issues in general?

I am having a HUGE problem trying to download Fedora 5 what a PITA! I think I will give in and buy it from linuxcentral. Anyone have any luck downloading it, other then from a torrent site?

No problems here on a T42, although I generally don't bother with ATI drivers on either gentoo (my main OS) or other distros that I try. Just not worth it for the things I do - I don't play any graphics intensive games either.

Just make certain you enable the various repos (selectively) for installation of a few apps and drivers. Everything works well out of the box except for suspend, so you'd just need to find a suitable ibm_acpi script for that event and you'll be set.

Downloading fedora core 5 WAS a pain in the butt, but that should be the extent of the troubles with it.

BitTorrent download of FC5 was a breeze. Just make sure that port 6881 is not firewalled (e.g. "service iptables stop" as root), otherwise it'll be sloooow.

On my T41 the suspend-to-ram worked out of the box.

Volker

I downloaded it from LSU. It took almost a 20 hours to do so. But it worked, slowly. I installed the DVD on my T42P. The display was not recognized. So I chose a generic display. I am not happy with the resolution. About the highest res I can get is 1024x768 right now. I have a 128m firegl2 card installed so I should be able to get 1600x1200.

Suspend does not work out of the box. It will suspend the machine when you push the buttons, but it will not wake up.

It sees my Intel 2200 wireless card but it does not work. I am still working on this.

Hybernate does not work.

The fan is constantly on.

I have had a lot of time to try and fix things, but I am working on it.

colryn wrote:I have a 128m firegl2 card installed so I should be able to get 1600x1200.

system-config-display and pick 1600x1200... but you better have such a display in your thinkpad

colryn wrote:It sees my Intel 2200 wireless card but it does not work. I am still working on this.

You need the firmware from http://ipw2200.sf.net

colryn wrote:
It sees my Intel 2200 wireless card but it does not work. I am still working on this.

You might want to try this how-to for the Intel 2200:
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=56694

Well, I chickened out and have not installed it on the T42p yet! I did install it on a Latitude D600 with a SXGA 14.1, it was able to load all the drivers/utilities for the CDRW-DVD drive, SXGA screen, etc; but I have to install the application for the WiFi. The OS seems solid and has an excellent feel to it.

I just got the latest Vista Beta (Feb. version) downloaded and ready to install on the TP, I will be doing it this weekend. The Fedora Core 5 will be installed, once I get the D600 100% working. The SAD part is that I installed it on some PIII machines and once the OS load was finished and I was asked to re-boot, it would always fail to load! So I was not able to run it on a PIII laptop (tried two of them, with a 40GB HD), got the same error twice. I did the install on the D600 with the same 40GB HD and it worked as described. The minimum requirements are PII 400; I was well above that with a PIII at 800 and PIII 1GHZ. Not sure what the problem was/is with the PIII's not working with Fedora.

Well, I have an update. I can say that it works quite well. After searching around, things are just peachy. As for being slow, NO WAY!!!!. This things zips along quite nicely.

Wireless and wired networking worked great. All I had to do is drop the firmware drivers into /lib/firmware. Start the network manager in services, then reboot. It saw my wireless nekworks (as well as eight other networks).

I downloaded by bittorrent, took a few hours, no problem. Haven't installed yet. I have FC3 which works fine. This is on an X40 but I understand the X40 is internally very similar to the T42.

phr wrote:I downloaded by bittorrent, took a few hours, no problem. Haven't installed yet. I have FC3 which works fine. This is on an X40 but I understand the X40 is internally very similar to the T42.

I have to second this, I used FC up to v3 but it was too much of a hassle to deal with bittorent when they started pushing that as the major delivery method. I got a copy of SuSE 10 eval (the open source version) and have been smiling ever since.

Not trying to start a "i prefer this flavor" war or anything like that, its just that I think that bittorent is a pain in this case.

Try what this thread suggests (aliasing eth0 to e1000 since the ethernet port is gigabit)