Re: [LAU] How well do thinkpad notebooks work for audio?

On Wednesday 29 July 2009 00:27:12 hollunder@email-addr-hidden wrote:

> So, do you have any experience with those for audio work?
> I'd be most interested in the T and R series and more recent models.
> Also helpful would be some data that's impossible to find on websites:
> - What chipsets are built in?
> - do the usb buses and the like share interrupts with something nasty
> like graphics?
>
> Helpful commands to gather that data:
> cat /proc/interrupts
> lspci
> lsusb
>
Hi,

Although I've never used it for serious audio work here's what I got on my
(actually my work-) T60p. The only thing that I found that doesn't work is the
fingerprint reader. That doesn't bother me, because I don't even use it when
running Windows XP. The other annoying bit was that I needed to install the
ATI fglrx driver to get a screen in its native resolution of 1600x1200. Other
than that openSuse 10.3 and up have worked without problems, and I am running
openSuse 11.1 with KDE 4.2.4 for a while now.

I like this laptop, but again, I've never used it for serious music apps. The
closest it comes to that is Amarok. Needless to say that works fine.

Thanks
Paul

# cat /proc/interrupts
           CPU0 CPU1
  0: 76075 4 IO-APIC-edge timer
  1: 160 0 IO-APIC-edge i8042
  8: 1 0 IO-APIC-edge rtc0
  9: 931 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi acpi
 12: 31193 11 IO-APIC-edge i8042
 14: 2828 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
 15: 0 0 IO-APIC-edge ata_piix
 16: 1 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb2, yenta
 17: 634 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb3, HDA Intel
 18: 0 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi uhci_hcd:usb4
 19: 189 0 IO-APIC-fasteoi ehci_hcd:usb1, uhci_hcd:usb5
216: 4753 0 PCI-MSI-edge iwl3945
217: 140 0 PCI-MSI-edge eth0
218: 14578 0 PCI-MSI-edge ahci
NMI: 0 0 Non-maskable interrupts
LOC: 17357 56496 Local timer interrupts
RES: 10380 13893 Rescheduling interrupts
CAL: 318 258 function call interrupts
TLB: 52 85 TLB shootdowns
TRM: 0 0 Thermal event interrupts
SPU: 0 0 Spurious interrupts
ERR: 0
MIS: 0

# lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and
945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and
945GT Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition
Audio Controller (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1
(rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 2
(rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3
(rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 4
(rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #1 (rev 02)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #2 (rev 02)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #3 (rev 02)
00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI
Controller #4 (rev 02)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI
Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge
(rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller
(rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA
AHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev
02)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M56GL [Mobility FireGL
V5200]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet
Controller
03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG [Golan]
Network Connection (rev 02)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Texas Instruments PCI1510 PC card Cardbus Controller

# lsusb
Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint
Reader
Bus 005 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2110 Broadcom Corp. Bluetooth Controller
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub

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