Some observations on newer laptops

Well, so In that last two weeks I've setup Fedora Core 3 on a thinkpad x40 and a dell inspiron 6000, the IBM works fine, though for me it doesn't have enough display to be usable.

I've surveyed several modern distributions on the dell (fc3, fc4 test 3, man(drake/driva) 10.2. and I must say the honeymoon was pretty short lived. I still haven't figured out how to make the thing sleep which is pretty much a non-starter for me. display is nice, the thing isn't significantly bigger than the inspiron 4150, though it is wider.

Some urls

japanese ass poking
http://outpostnine.com/editorials/teacher1.html

more ass poking
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancho

some guy who builds huge cardboard airplanes...
http://kancho.muncho.org/gal_f104.html
http://kancho.muncho.org/index.html

some observations

Camera vendor:
http://www.akihabaranews.com/en/news_9561.html

Ugly light that might be cool
http://www.gnr8.biz/automata.html
Another one...
http://www.gnr8.biz/globo.html

Disks...

So uh... I have 24 x 400GB seagate drives, 8 x 73GB sata WD raptors all for the same box.

getting acpi sleep (s3) to work on thinkpad x40 fedora core 3

add:

acpi_sleep=s3_bios

to kernel line in /etc/grub.conf

create /etc/acpi/events/ lid.conf and sleep.conf

event=button/sleep
action=/usr/local/bin/x40-suspend.sh

event=button/lid
action=/usr/local/bin/x40-suspend.sh

create script /usr/local/bin/x40-suspend.sh

#!/bin/bash
rmmod ehci_hcd
rmmod ath_pci
echo 3 >/proc/acpi/sleep
modprobe echi_hcd
modprobe ath_pci

take a look at:

http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/Fedora-Core-on-Thinkpad-X40/

some urls

http://www.whitehouse.org/news/2005/041905.asp