From: "Lothar Frommhold" Received: from [192.168.100.201] (HELO mail.2rosenthals.com) by 2rosenthals.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.1.16) with ESMTP id 2460532 for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 08 May 2009 10:21:35 -0400 Received: from static-71-171-102-26.clppva.fios.verizon.net ([71.171.102.26] helo=mail2.2rosenthals.com) by secmgr-ny.randr with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.43) id 1M2Qx8-0001QW-QG for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 08 May 2009 10:21:35 -0400 Received: from ironclad.mail.utexas.edu ([146.6.25.7]:36867) by mail2.2rosenthals.com with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M2Qx2-0006j5-2R for ecs-t6x@2rosenthals.com; Fri, 08 May 2009 10:21:26 -0400 X-CTCH-RefID: str=0001.0A010205.4A043FE6.028C,ss=1,fgs=0 X-IronPort-MID: 1064880135 Received: from wb2-a.mail.utexas.edu ([128.83.126.136]) by ironclad.mail.utexas.edu with SMTP; 08 May 2009 09:21:22 -0500 Received: (qmail 56630 invoked from network); 8 May 2009 14:21:21 -0000 Received: from frompc1.ph.utexas.edu (HELO ?128.83.131.26?) (frommhold@128.83.131.26) by wb2.mail.utexas.edu with (RC4-MD5 encrypted) ESMTPSSA; 8 May 2009 14:21:21 -0000 Message-ID: <4A044087.9060500@physics.utexas.edu> Date: Fri, 08 May 2009 09:24:07 -0500 Reply-To: frommhold@physics.utexas.edu Organization: University of Texas User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (OS/2; U; Warp 4.5; en-US; rv:1.8.1.21) Gecko/20090410 SeaMonkey/1.1.16 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: eCS ThinkPad T60/61 Mailing List Subject: Re: [eCS T60/T61] OT - T500 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) X-Spam-Report: _SUMMARY_ Many thanks, Lewis! An interesting review. Lothar Lewis G Rosenthal wrote: > On 05/07/09 01:41 pm, Lothar Frommhold thus wrote : >> Hello everyone: >> >> I recently picked up a Lenovo thinkpad T500, which was recommended as >> the successor of the T60/T61 models. eCS v.2.0 RC6a installed fine >> with VGA only driver, but SNAP and PANORAMA don't seem to work. Did >> someone succeed in getting better screens than VGA? >> >> I am also interested in multi-boot with a flavor of linux (along with >> eCS). Is there a linux video driver that works better than VGA with >> the T500? >> >> Any help/suggestions would be appreciated. > Hi, Lothar... > > I have no experience with this model, so cannot comment on your issue > directly. That said, for everyone's edification, here's one review of > the new T500 model: > > http://www.notebookreview.com/default.asp?newsID=4565 > > I see a mention of being able to switch video chipsets (that's what the > review says) between the Intel X4500 and the ATI 3650. Evidently, the > machine has two graphics chipsets on board, which is surely quite odd. > Perhaps there is a BIOS switch in addition to the Windy control... >