Thinkpad install problems

[Judd Barnard]

Shawn,
  How did you get sound working  with the mwave?
Thanks,
Judd.

"Shawn T. Rutledge" wrote:

> I got X and sound both working last night.  The problem being reported
> on the Thinkpad websites with having to hit fn-F7 once after starting X
> seems to have been fixed; it comes up like it's supposed to.  The MWave
> modem is a lost cause for now, from what I've been reading; but IBM has
> promised to write drivers some day.
>
> I installed the latest KDE beta.  (I've been a Gnome bigot for the
> last couple years, so it's been a while since I've seen KDE.)  It's a
> little too slow for comfort on a P90, but other than that is looking
> OK.  It didn't put the machine into swapping hell either
> (it's got 64 megs RAM).  Konqueror wasn't able to browse the web
> for some reason though; the error was something like "a view could
> not be created for type HTML".
>
> But for the sake of speed I think I'm going to just use FVWM2.  Maybe
> if I get Galleon compiled on my regular workstation, it will prove small
> enough to use on this laptop also.
>
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