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IBM Thinkpad T23
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10 60109 07-28-2010
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Description: IBM T23 2647-4NU
Pentium III-M 1.13GHz
128MB PC133 SODIMM
30GB HDD
S3 Savage Video w/16MB Dedicated VRAM
Integrated 802.11b (Intersil Prism chipset)
14.1" LCD
8x DVD-ROM
Floppy
Integrated AC'97 Sound (via Intel Southbridge)
Keywords: thinkpad t23 ibm slackware wireless
/sbin/lspci output: 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset Host Bridge (rev 02)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82830 830 Chipset AGP Bridge (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #1) (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #2) (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM USB (Hub #3) (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corp. 82801BAM/CAM PCI Bridge (rev 41)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corp. 82801CAM ISA Bridge (LPC) (rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corp. 82801CAM IDE U100 (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM SMBus (rev 01)
00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'91 Audio (rev 01)
00:1f.6 Modem: Intel Corp. 82801CA/CAM AC'97 Modem (rev 01)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. SuperSavage IX/C SDR (rev 05)
02:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
02:00.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1420
02:02.0 Network controller: Harris Semiconductor Prism 2.5 Wavelan chipset (rev 01)
02:08.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corp. 82801CAM (ICH3) PRO/100 VE (LOM) Ethernet Controller (rev 41)


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Old 10-25-2004, 09:16 PM   #1
 
Registered: Dec 1969
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Kernel (uname -r):
Distribution: Mandrake 10.0



Could not get install to finish properly. Install would freeze shortly after loading video. Someone with more linux knowledge might be able to get it to install, but it was beyond my knowledge.
 
Old 03-18-2005, 07:02 AM   #2
fr_laz
 
Registered: Jan 2005
Distribution: Debian
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.4.20
Distribution: RedHat9


RedHat9 installed perfectly well. Nothing to do by hand.

Only problem is the svideo adapter whose driver lacks some functions (changing resolution)
 
Old 07-26-2005, 07:16 AM   #3
IamSpOOk
 
Registered: Jul 2005
Posts: 15

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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.11.4-21.7-default
Distribution: SuSE Personal 9.3


No issues with install.
I have not tested suspend to disk/mem or special keys yet - but it has the drivers.
Everything else just worked.
I later broke the sound trying to get Macromedia Flash to work.
System sounds now work, bit XMM won't play. My fault though,
it worked out of the box. Flash is a pain on linux anyway.
Wacom Graphire3 works fine. You need to use /dev/input/event3
as the input for wacom, and /dev/input/mouse1 for the mouse.
Don't use /dev/input/mice as that pulls data from the wacom as well.
 
Old 09-14-2005, 05:16 PM   #4
frogman
 
Registered: Sep 2003
Distribution: Mandrake, Slack, Debian and PicoBSD
Posts: 181

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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.10-5-386
Distribution: Ubuntu 5.04


Doesn't support ACPI, you'll need to use APM. In Ubuntu (and probably other distros) you'll need to set "acpi=off noacpi" when installing or the the process will hang on acpi detection.

Apart from that everything works, including thinkpad buttons, using the thinkpad-specific debian packages. Use "apt-cache search Thinkpad" to find them.
 
Old 01-17-2006, 05:24 AM   #5
koloth
 
Registered: Jun 2004
Distribution: Slackware 13.1
Posts: 98

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Kernel (uname -r): linux 2.6.13
Distribution: Slackware 10.1 & 10.2


Works great, even the on-board winmodem (well with ltmodem drivers). Only problem: with 2.6 kernel i can't get it to go to sleep when closing the lid
 
Old 02-09-2006, 06:07 PM   #6
Moy Easwaran
 
Registered: Dec 2004
Distribution: Slackware, OpenBSD
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.14.3
Distribution: Slackware 10.2


Had to tweak APM to restore sound after a suspend/resume cycle. Other than that, everything works great! See thinkwiki.org for lots of information about Thinkpads.
 
Old 01-08-2007, 12:47 AM   #7
PhillipHuang
 
Registered: Aug 2006
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.9
Distribution: RHEL 4.4


RHEL 4.4 is installed successfully. All things are OK.
 
Old 02-11-2007, 08:12 PM   #8
PhillipHuang
 
Registered: Aug 2006
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.8.1-12
Distribution: MandrakeLinux 10.1


OS recognizes sound device clearly, but no voice output.
 
Old 05-11-2009, 08:42 AM   #9
PhillipHuang
 
Registered: Aug 2006
Distribution: Ubuntu 10.04
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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6.28-11
Distribution: Ubuntu 9.0.4


Perfect installation, the fastest Linux distro on my old friend T23.
 
Old 07-28-2010, 11:34 AM   #10
Saquib1992
 
Registered: Oct 2009
Posts: 7

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Kernel (uname -r): 2.6
Distribution: DSL


Nice on for live cds
 




  



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