IBM X40 results

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Tue Oct 5 23:23:50 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 12:27 -0400, Aroon Pahwa wrote:
> Hey guys,
> 
> first, thanks for all your help with the vmware issue.  i ended up
> losing my patience, taking the dive and just formatting my laptop and
> doing a clean ubuntu install.
> 
> it went great!  everything works right out of the box so far.  even
> the wireless.  i havnt had a chance to try out the infrared port yet
> and im pretty sure it wasnt detected during installation, but i wasnt
> expecting it to either.

Several of the developers own X40s, so it's currently probably the best
supported laptop :)

> btw, battery life seems to be similar to my windoze install i think. 
> are there any power management programs for linux that i should know
> about?

Everything I'm currently using for power management is installed in
Ubuntu by default, so I wouldn't worry too much. 

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org





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