Installing OPENSUSE 11.0 on a ThinkPad T61p
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Introduction
How to install openSuSE 11.0 x64 on a T61p
Hardware
My T61p is a 8889-3FG, Intel Core2Duo 2,4GHz, 2GB RAM, 100 GB HDD 7200 rpm, Nvidia Quadro FX 570M, 14.1" TFT (1400x1050), Intel 82655MM GB-Ethernet, Intel AGN 4965 wifi, Bluetooth.
Installation
Network install worked pretty much straight forward. Be careful, there's a hidden recovery partition which could screw up your partition table. Just call Lenovo, get the recovery DVDs for free and delete the hidden partition.
Graphics
X might not work with the vesa driver, so if your KDE or gnome goes blank on first boot press STRG+ALT+BACKSPACE, open yast in console and install the binary driver from nvidia. I chose the 177.13 beta version because i had suspend2disk trouble with openSuSE 10.3, works fine now, see below.
I also encountered some strange font-size trouble in kdm & yast, to fix this set dpi to 120 in systemsettings (both as root and user) and set font size in /etc/X11/qtrc to a very small value (i chose 7)
Haven't tried the SUB-D connector for external graphic devices yet.
Sound
Worked out of the box.
Ethernet
Worked out of the box.
WiFi
still working on a solution.
Bluetooth
Haven't tried it yet.
Power Saving
Had to install kpowersave to use it, but works fine now.
Suspend2Disk and Suspend2RAM (had to add S2RAM_OPTS=--force to /etc/pm/config.d/s2ram because this model is not yet whitelisted) both worked out of the box (again, with nVidia beta).
Hotkeys
partial: Suspend (after installing kpowersave) and backlight hotkeys work but not the sound hotkeys.
Fingerprint Reader
Works, but no KDE-support (yet). Remember to set your fingerprint in Yast -> Security and Users -> User and group management -> edit your user account -> plugins -> set user's fingerprint.