How to install USB Dongle in Ubuntu 6.06

[Liam Proven]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Eric Genaro P. Arceo
<gap.myoffice at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have recently installed Ubuntu 6.06 to my laptop (since it is the only
> version that will work with this laptop).

What laptop model is it?

For what it's worth, I have an elderly IBM Thinkpad i1200-series (an
1163 actually made by Acer) which will only boot and run 6.06 without
tweaks. However, it actually runs modern versions of Ubuntu fine if I
add the

acpi=force

... kernel boot parameter. This is one that is not well-documented -
most help docs suggest you do

acpi=off

... which actually prevents this machine from working.

I am running Crunchbang 9.04 (=Ubuntu 9.04) and Lubuntu 10.10 on this
machine, dual-booting, and both are fine. Other tweaks are necessary
for good performance but it generally works well.

By other tweaks, I mean things like a custom /etc/X11/xorg.conf file
to force it to 1024*768, plus a line to drop it from 24-bit colour to
the dramatically faster 16-bit.  I've documented this here:
http://liam-on-linux.livejournal.com/20637.html


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