Some old fashioned assistance requested, and some oppinions wanted.

[Jim Stapleton]

Ahh, well thank you and back to the main purpose of this thread:

1) If Toshiba were to provide open source drivers for it's
"weirdities", would you purchase their machines?

2) If "yes" to #1, would you join me in a snail-mail writing campaign
to them to request they provide drivers for BSD and/or Linux -
preferrably open source for one, or closed source for both, if it must
remain closed for whatever reasons.

Thanks,
-Jim Stapleton

On 10/25/06, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko <Alex.Kovalenko at verizon.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 05:30 -0400, Jim Stapleton wrote:
> > addendum:
> >
> > How are the Lenovo notebooks, now that they are no longer associated
> > with IBM whatsoever?
> >
> I have Thinkpad X60 here tracking -CURRENT:
>
> -- wireless - Atheros 5212 -- just works.
> -- bluetooth - works (syncing Palm Tungsten E2, Apple Bluetooth
> keyboard).
> -- sound -- with the latest snd_hda -- works (Amarok, Skype).
> -- video -- 945GM -- recognized/attached, however glxgears show 600-700
> FPS, so, likely, no acceleration.
> -- USB -- works (umass, ums)
> -- Firewire -- works (sbp)
> -- Ethernet -- Intel PRO/1000 -- works (em)
> -- Ricoh SD card reader -- don't really know even how to start on this
> one ;)
> -- suspend/resume -- did not try, but judging by the discussion on
> resuming dual-core CPU, likely does not.
> -- general ACPI is recognized by acpi_ibm driver, which enables handful
> of the IBM-specific functions (volume buttons, ThinkLight, brightness,
> etc.)
> -- no built-in optical drive to report.
>
> HTH,
>
> --
> Alexandre "Sunny" Kovalenko
>
>