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Subject: [ale] Distro Search for Thinkpad R40
From: brian at polibyte.com (Brian Pitts)
Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 21:07:01 -0400
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Jim Popovitch wrote:
> 
> Ubuntu Feisty should work fine (although it's nearing end of support
> life cycle).  Avoid Gutsy due to ATI+Hibernation issues due to Gutsy's
> change to SLUB in the kernel.

This is only an issue with older versions of ATI's proprietary driver. 
It doesn't affect the open source driver or, judging from this bug 
report [0], the version of ATI's proprietary driver which is included in 
the latest Ubuntu (Hardy).

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-restricted-modules-2.6.22/+bug/121653

-Brian

References:
- [ale] Distro Search for Thinkpad R40
  - From: mferguson at digitalalias.net (Marc Ferguson)
- [ale] Distro Search for Thinkpad R40
  - From: yahoo at jimpop.com (Jim Popovitch)

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