Re: FC1 and Laptops?

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On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Matthew Saltzman wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Satish Balay wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Ross M Karchner wrote:
> >
> > > Hello-
> > >
> > > Can anybody recommend any laptops that work well with FC1? By "works
> > > well" I guess I mean that things like power management, sleep/awake with
> > > the closing of the lid, and (if present) video acceleration are all well
> > > supported .
> >
> > IBM ThinkPad T40/T41 (perhasp the R series as well - avoid R40e - no APM)
> >
> > I currently use a T40 - which is Pentium-M 1.6GHz. Default APM works
> > with suspend/resume. The kernel modeule speedstep-centrino with
> > 'cpudyn' (external) package gives CPU-Frequency scaling. The graphics
> > card is ATI mobile Radeon 9000 - which is supported (including 3d) by
> > the default XFree86 pakage. And I've installed madwifi driver
> > (external) for IBM a/b wireless card.
> >
> > Satish
> 
> Cool!  Must try this on my T-41.  Is there anything to put in
> /etc/modules.conf so that speedstep-centrino will get loaded automatically
> when cpudynd starts?

I didn't know how to properly specify this in modules.conf - so I just
add the following to /etc/rc.local

modprobe speedstep-centrino
service cpudynd restart

The cpudyn package I've installed is from http://apt.sw.be/redhat/fc1/en/i386/dag

Satish



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