Difference between revisions of "Installing OPENSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T61p"
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| − | + | == Configuration == | |
| + | My T61p is a 6457-BQG, Intel Core2Duo 2,6GHz, 4GB RAM, 180 GB HDD, Nvidia Quadro FX 570M, 15.4" TFT (1900x1200), Intel AGN 4965 wifi, Bluetooth, Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio. | ||
| − | == | + | == Partitioning == |
Factory disk: two partitions: r&r and vista. I was first preparing a dual boot system, but gparted was not able to resize the vista partition. After many retries, I dropped the idea of dual boot and decided for suse-only system. I kept only the r&r and partitioned the rest with gparted as: | Factory disk: two partitions: r&r and vista. I was first preparing a dual boot system, but gparted was not able to resize the vista partition. After many retries, I dropped the idea of dual boot and decided for suse-only system. I kept only the r&r and partitioned the rest with gparted as: | ||
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/dev/sda7 /home 130GB | /dev/sda7 /home 130GB | ||
| − | Network install was almost without problems (the partition configuration had to be edited during the installation, since the installers was offering some foolish configuration) | + | Network install was almost without problems (the partition configuration had to be edited during the installation, since the installers was offering some foolish configuration). |
| − | == | + | == Setup - 1st try - KDE4 == |
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| − | + | First I have choosen KDE4 for desktop enviroment. Installed nvidia driver from source (needs kernel source package installed) instead of rpm. It seemed that these components | |
| − | + | * suspend to RAM (add {{bootparm|S2RAM_OPTS|"--force"}} to {{path|/etc/pm/config.d/defaults}}) | |
| − | + | * composite effects in KDE4 (add to {{path|/etc/X11/xorg.conf}} with {{cmdroot|nvidia-xconfig --composite}}) | |
| − | {{bootparm|S2RAM_OPTS|"--force"}} to {{path|/etc/pm/config.d/defaults}} | + | * wireless |
| + | are in conflict. The most stable configuration was running an older nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.82-pkg2.run). I had a couple of freezes, sometimes the keyboard was not functional, wireless did not always come up after s2ram. | ||
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| + | == Setup - 2nd try - GNOME == | ||
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| + | I wanted to give a try to GNOME and reinstalled the whole system. In the meantime a new nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.29-pkg2.run) came out, I have choosen that one. | ||
| + | * suspend to RAM works (without editing {{path|/etc/pm/config.d/defaults}}). | ||
| + | * wireless does not always come back after s2ram. You can fix it by removing and loading a wireless kernel module ({{cmdroot|modprobe -r iwlagn; modprobe iwlagn}}), in case if it does not come up. | ||
| + | * composite effects in GNOME were OK. However in terminal the texts were not always displayed correctly; if a window was updated, only parts of it was refreshed, I had to bring the cursor above the elements to make them refresh. I have played with many xorg and compiz parameters (switched sync_to_vblank off; refresh rate set to 60). The problem has completely vanished after removing the --loose-binding in COMPIZ_OPTIONS in {{path|/usr/bin/compiz-manager}}. See [http://fedorasolved.org/Members/mock/fix_refresh_nvidia_compiz_f10]. | ||
Latest revision as of 23:26, 22 February 2009
Configuration
My T61p is a 6457-BQG, Intel Core2Duo 2,6GHz, 4GB RAM, 180 GB HDD, Nvidia Quadro FX 570M, 15.4" TFT (1900x1200), Intel AGN 4965 wifi, Bluetooth, Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio.
Partitioning
Factory disk: two partitions: r&r and vista. I was first preparing a dual boot system, but gparted was not able to resize the vista partition. After many retries, I dropped the idea of dual boot and decided for suse-only system. I kept only the r&r and partitioned the rest with gparted as:
/dev/sda1 r&r 6GB /dev/sda2 /boot 64MB /dev/sda3 extended /dev/sda5 / 40GB /dev/sda6 swap 4GB /dev/sda7 /home 130GB
Network install was almost without problems (the partition configuration had to be edited during the installation, since the installers was offering some foolish configuration).
Setup - 1st try - KDE4
First I have choosen KDE4 for desktop enviroment. Installed nvidia driver from source (needs kernel source package installed) instead of rpm. It seemed that these components
- suspend to RAM (add
S2RAM_OPTS="--force"to /etc/pm/config.d/defaults) - composite effects in KDE4 (add to /etc/X11/xorg.conf with
# nvidia-xconfig --composite) - wireless
are in conflict. The most stable configuration was running an older nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-177.82-pkg2.run). I had a couple of freezes, sometimes the keyboard was not functional, wireless did not always come up after s2ram.
Setup - 2nd try - GNOME
I wanted to give a try to GNOME and reinstalled the whole system. In the meantime a new nvidia driver (NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-180.29-pkg2.run) came out, I have choosen that one.
- suspend to RAM works (without editing /etc/pm/config.d/defaults).
- wireless does not always come back after s2ram. You can fix it by removing and loading a wireless kernel module (
# modprobe -r iwlagn; modprobe iwlagn), in case if it does not come up. - composite effects in GNOME were OK. However in terminal the texts were not always displayed correctly; if a window was updated, only parts of it was refreshed, I had to bring the cursor above the elements to make them refresh. I have played with many xorg and compiz parameters (switched sync_to_vblank off; refresh rate set to 60). The problem has completely vanished after removing the --loose-binding in COMPIZ_OPTIONS in /usr/bin/compiz-manager. See [1].
