Centrino "Dothan" support
Nathaniel McCallum
npmccallum at canonical.com
Fri Oct 8 17:19:48 UTC 2004
On Thu, 2004-10-07 at 23:02 -0400, Bryan Pizzuti wrote:
> Any chance of having Ubuntu work with the new Pentium M "Dothan"
> processors fully out of the box? I ordered an IBM Thinkpad T42
> recently, and I know people have gotten Debian Sarge working on it,
> but have needed to do a lot of patching (for the Synaptics touchpad
> driver support too). I REALLY would prefer to use Ubuntu, since it
> won't load me down with all the KDE junk I don't want, and X
> configuration during install actually WORKS (The latest Sarge...I
> dunno, 2 machines, 12 different settings attempts, they all end up at
> 800x600 with the framebuffer driver...)
I use the same laptop as my development machine. So, yes, it works. In
the future you may want to take a look at:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport Also feel free to report your
experiences as well!
Nathaniel
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