[linux-help] Re: Linux laptop compatibility

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> From: linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx [mailto:linux-help-bounce@xxxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Steven Saner
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> You don't say which IBM ThinkPad model you are looking at, so it is
> hard to say. I have successfully got linux to work on a couple
> different Thinkpads. Some of the older models like my 760 incorporate
> an MWAVE device for sound and modem. I don't think that there is any
> Linux support for that, so I don't have sound or the modem with
> it. Other than that it works fine.

Actually, MWAVE can be made to work as an original 8bit Soundblaster.  It
requires one to first boot to DOS and run a DOS configuration tool and then a
warm boot into Linux .  Loadlin is your friend in this case.

--dwh

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Air Capital Linux User's Group  (ACLUG)
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