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spotslayer Offline

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Posted: July 20 2005,18:47

Thank's kopsis!!!

Disabling quickboot was the missing piece. I did that came back, set the sound up and viola!, I am listening to Carlos Santana "Samba Pa Ti" as I type this.(I'm in Brownsville Texas, so I been ridin' out Emily ) Now my old TP with frugal install is complete. This has long been my favorite computer. I would get rid of XP(spit) except I have a GPS program I am using that has a USB antenna/receiver that I have not been able to make work with any linux distro. Folks on other forums have told me the thing I would have to do is change antenna/receivers to a serial setup. Not. I only use it when I travel so I can deal with it.

David

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Posted: July 20 2005,21:12

Glad I could help

The old 600 series ThinkPads were/are great laptops. Built pretty tough (except for all the flimsy port covers) and really compact for their vintage. I was thinking about finally replacing mine because Kubuntu was just too sluggish, but a frugal DSL install has breathed new life into it. With DSL, performance feels not too far behind a Centrino running XP or a G4 iBook. Not bad for a 366MHz PII! Yeah, there's a lot less eye candy, but for practicality it rocks!

Now I'm actually thinking of keeping it long enough to justify spending some $$ to replace the long dead battery and add some more RAM. I bet with frugal running "toram" and using a big CF card for /opt and /home, I could get 3-4 hours of battery life.

BTW - I've worked up a .dsl that provides the APM daemon (apmd) and associated scripts. The 600E won't suspend when on AC power with PCMCIA cards installed (it goes to standby instead) but with apmd you can hook the suspend/resume events and shutdown/restart PCMCIA cards to allow the suspend/hibernate to really happen. I'll submit the .dsl and post more details once I have a chance to do a little more testing.

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Posted: July 20 2005,21:37

That is pretty much exactly what I am doing. Frugal, toram. I don't have a cf card but since I am also using windows(spit) I can use the TP config GUI and set the hard drive to shut down from immediatly to whatever I need. I get around 3 hours using a wireless NIC with DSL set this way. The drive rarely spins up in DSL. I have used the DOS setup utility in the past but lost my copy and have not been able to locate another. It will fit on one diskette and can set everything the GUI can. Just in case you want to try and let the HD spindown.

David

ke4nt1

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Posted: July 20 2005,21:40

spotslayer,

Brownsville? Hope all is OK..
The Weather Channel has mentioned some pretty severe winds there..
Up north a fir piece, in Brenham,TX all is well.. We need the rain.

kopsis,

Frugall running toram is DA BOMB-a-da-bing-daddy-O!
Really improves performance - well worth the $$ in ram.
Running CF-to-IDE is hit or miss on some laptops,
Make sure yours will recognize the CF as a HD.
My IBM 240's give me troubles, IBM 770's are no problem,
Toshiba was no problem either..

Both SU and I have CF cards as HD's in our toshibas.
Improved battery life, quiet, and still very fast,
on all but the biggest of files..
( P99, 40MB ram, 800x600 w/XFree86, 256MB CF )

73
ke4nt

mgmont

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Posted: July 20 2005,23:36

Ke4nt1, I hope you get some rain. We want to make sure those Blue Bell cows have plenty of grass to eat. :;):

Kopsis,I am running a CF in my laptop which is a Micron transport zx. It works great. However I would caution you about putting /home on the CF because Things like Firefox are constantly reading and writing within /home. This could cause premature failure of your cf. Otherwise I am very happy with the setup.

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