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| | Linux on the IBM ThinkPad |
 | | Several PCMCIA cards are known to work on the ThinkPads, generally via David Hinds' excellent card services driver. |
 | | Brad Pepers discovered that the oft-mentioned problem in locating the disk geometry of ThinkPad -- and, come to that, ValuePoint -- machines is not, as had previously been thought, due to a problem in the BIOS: what is actually failing is the code that determines the number of drives from the CMOS. |
 | | Although Linux works perfectly on many of the ThinkPad range, and X is happy on at least some of the machines, there are some things that are tricky or not supported in software that is publically-available: for example, sound support on the 750. |
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