Excellent toy. Almost everything works fine. When installing FC4 sound was missing while in FC3 was fine. Better install FC3 and upgrade to FC4. The other (Ubuntu 5.10, Suse 9.1, and many live distros) work also fine. Both hibernation and suspension work fine but sound is missing after wake up. Quality of display is impressive after 6 years of using. It will be difficult to say bye bye to her, I use also come other boxes.

$ lshal
smbios.bios.release_date = '12/21/1999' (string)
smbios.bios.version = 'IYET61WW (1.22 )' (string)
smbios.bios.vendor = 'IBM' (string)

$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82557/8/9 [Ethernet Pro 100] (rev 09)
00:03.1 Serial controller: Xircom Mini-PCI V.90 56k Modem
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 11)
02:00.0 Network controller: RaLink RT2500 802.11g Cardbus/mini-PCI (rev 01)

Of course, I couldn't setup my modem,Please help me....

Thinkpad T20 Pentium III-700mhz, 512Mb ram, 20G Hard drive, DVD.

lspci output:


00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 03)
00:02.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:02.1 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1450 (rev 03)
00:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c556B CardBus [Tornado] (rev 20)
00:03.1 Communication controller: 3Com Corporation Mini PCI 56k Winmodem (rev 20)
00:05.0 Multimedia audio controller: Cirrus Logic CS 4614/22/24/30 [CrystalClear SoundFusion Audio Accelerator] (rev 01)
00:07.0 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 02)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB (rev 01)
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 03)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: S3 Inc. 86C270-294 Savage/IX-MV (rev 11)

Picked up this little lappy for my backup production unit. Install went smooth.

video: slight video artifacts cleaned up by reducing color depth to 16 bpp

synaptic software manager: as with any package mgr, always refresh or reload repos before attempting to d/l anything

playing DVDs: necessary codecs available via synaptic

ethernet: 3Com Corporation 3c556B CardBus [Tornado] (rev 20) works fine. If you want network monitor applet (net_applet) in panel then needs /root/.net_applet set to AUTOSTART=TRUE

TP acpi stuff (sensors/hibernate/suspend): not checked yet
modem: not checked
suspend on lid close: not checked

shutdown: hung at "unmounting loopback". Fixed by upgrading acpid via synaptic.

backlight works
TP keypad volume controls work (vol up/vol dwn/mute)

ultrabay feature nice

Sound CS 46xx module properly ID and loaded. speakers so-so. headphone audio quality very nice.

serial port toggle accessible thru BIOS. Nice feature for serial port hdwr modem if you can't get the winmodem working

USB hub and mouse working fine