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dkrizic · #1 Post by **dkrizic** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 6:18 am

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/

AndreasMeier · #2 Post by **AndreasMeier** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:02 am

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

dkrizic · #3 Post by **dkrizic** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:15 am

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

AndreasMeier · #4 Post by **AndreasMeier** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 7:43 am

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

Volker · #5 Post by **Volker** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 11:20 am

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.

AndreasMeier · #6 Post by **AndreasMeier** » Tue Jul 05, 2005 4:39 pm

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

dkrizic · #7 Post by **dkrizic** » Wed Jul 06, 2005 8:35 am

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

doppelfish · #8 Post by **doppelfish** » Sun Jul 10, 2005 10:37 am

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

Code: Select all

keycode 233 = Next
keycode 234 = Prior

in mine.

cheers,
-- fish

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