Installing OpenSuSE 10.1 on a ThinkPad X41 Tablet

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Success Chart

Item Working Notes
Installation Network Installation Yes
USB Installation Yes (DVD)
Display Laptop Screen Yes X.org i810 driver
CRT / Projector Yes
Screen Rotation not working yet
Stylus Yes wacom serial driver.
Power Management Software Suspend (hibernate) not tested Software Suspend 2
Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) not tested Software Suspend 2
Audio Yes ALSA intel8x0 driver
Wireless 802.11b/g Yes
Bluetooth Yes
Extra Buttons Keyboard Section not working yet ibm-acpi driver
Tablet buttons not working yet setkeycodes
Fingerprint Scanner nc bioapi
Harddisk Active Protection not tested kernel 2.6.16, hdapsd

Introduction

As you will realise quickly, I've taken the installation tipps from the (by the way) very good site Installation of Fedora Core 5 on a ThinkPad X41 Tablet. I've been a windows user for quite a long time so I decided to go with OpenSuSE because I've already had contact with this distro some years ago and found it very good, looking at usability, settings, installation, etc. Many things of your Thinkpad will work out of the box.Later in this article I'd like to show some software I'm currently using and that I find very handy on a Tablet. I've just installed Linux on my Thinkpad, so this article isn't finished yet

Installation