Suse 10 had the same problems.

Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting

>>> David Boyes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 8/6/2007 1:26 PM >>>
> At the end of the year (2005), I bought a Thinkpad  some model or
other.
> It sure doesn't like linux (Suse 8, Suse 9 or Suse 10).  Power
management
> doesn't work.  The battery indicator doesn't work,  Wifi does work.
Leave
> Linux up for over 30 minutes, and the Thinkpad shuts down.  The fan
> sometimes doesn't come on and the laptop overheats.
> 
> I think the laptop is a G40.  It didn't have Linux as one of the
supported
> Operation Systems at the time I bought it.  I will make sure support
is
> there on the following hardware purchases.  For now, it converted me
back
> to XP.

Try again now. A lot of work on laptop support has been done in Linux
since then. 

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