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First off, I will be adding to this as things go, hopefully uploading a bunch of my conf files, because I know how lame having to read guides that offer a vague walkthru but no real .conf stuff, well I will have them here, if you wish to request anything odd, I will be more then happy to pull it off the Laptop.

- How to replace the BIOS battery for under 4 dollars -

Ok, so IBM is a good laptop company, but like all others makes things proprietary which is lame, so this is how to do it without spending 15 dollars on a battery from them.

You Need :

Electrical Tape

Old BIOS Battery

New Watch Battery carried at Wal-Mart and Radio Shack ( Panasonic cr2025 with 3 volts)

Now, take out the old battery, mine was yellow carefully remove the yellow plastic wrapper from the battery, this should expose two little clips on a dongle attachting to the laptop (2 pin power connector.) Take the new battery the side with writting on it is positive, also labeled with a +, and place the red clip here, now on the other side place the black clip (they will not stay so just hold them there.) Take some electrical tape and secure the little contacts to the new battery....and the BIOS battery has been replaced without any proprietary battery.

If you the above isn't working, I will try and upload some pics of what I did.

- Sound on the ThinkPad 600 -

I will upload the .conf later, it was hard but not undoable as some may think. Currently operating under 2.4.27 using OSS sound modules.

The sound is a combanation of getting the modules to load at kernel boot and to even dectect the card at all.

The follow is input into /etc/modules.conf

alias sound cs4232 alias midi opl3 options opl3 io=0x388 options cs4232 io=0x530 irq=5 dma=1 dma2=0 mpuio=0x330 mpuirq=5 synthirq=-1 synthio=-1

must be root for the below or use sudo.

/sbin/rmmod cs4232 /sbin/modprobe sound

soundoff; sleep 1; soundon

It is a constant battle of trail and error.

More to come later....

The laptop is nice, the Serial port needs to be enable/disabled using some sort of dos-boot disk, so That is the next thing I am going to do on this laptop. I would check out the following sites:

http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tp600lnx.htm

http://www.io.com/~manojk/linux-tp600x/