Re: problems with IBM X40 and 10.3

On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 03:58:47PM +0200, Volker Krüger wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> does anyone have an IBM X40?

Yes. Not me, but there are some around :-)
 
> 10.2 was running great, but 10.3 gives me problems with
> 1) the external display: I cannot use F7 anymore to do the switching

Try "xrandr --auto"

> 2) suspend: It works only the first time after boot. If I suspend a
> second time, then the laptop hangs while trying to suspend and I cannot
> re-animate it.

File a bugreport, please.

> 3) I have not tested the media-slice.

I am quite sure that the X40 mediaslice was also tested before 10.3 and
that it works quite well, but i can't tell from firsthand experience.

> Furthermore, in the bootlog I can see that nvram and acpid cannot agree
> on the brightness level of the screen.

I also see those messages, i think that they are mostly harmless, though.

> As a consequence, I had some
> trouble setting the brightness level. The brightness problem has
> vanished, however, since recently. I don't know why (perhaps because I
> removed the gnome applet for the brightness control, but haven't verified).

Then probably the GNOME applet does something stupid :-)
It works quite well for me on a X32 using kpowersave.

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