Reinstalled SuSE 10.1
An yes, acpi events works. I guess that it has to do that this time I choose KDE as desktop and not GNOME as last time.

I uses www2.ati.com/suse as repository to install the ati driver (is not the latest). Works fine and nod bad quality fonts as you report

Strange, 1 did I clean installation and got no thinkpad_acpi_events.
I'll give it a second try.

Your driver is the same I was using. I'll let you know if I get good video perfortmance / front rendering

And thanks for the quick explanation about compiz, xgl and so on

OK, Now I have scratched it...(after testing 10.2 alpha) About thinkpad_acpi_events.... did you install the script manaually (if yes from where) I don't feel I had any special problem with fonts. What ati driver did you install. I tried the one installed from yast (using www2.ati.com/suse as rep) Wo...

Hi, for me none of the keys worked. No matter if I used xgl or not. I have tried OpenSuSE 10.2 Alpha 5 and all Fn Key work except Fn f7 So i'll guess I will wait for that release (looks cool) Regarding fonts... No I did not get any problem. What video driver are you using ? Radeon? ATI from ww.ati.c...

Hi, I recently scratched my T43P and installed Suse 10.1 I am pretty satisfied with the result, got ATI driver to work very easly by adding the proper repository, xgl is running ok. Wifi out of the box. One of the last issues I have is the fn F3... and so on keys. The most important is F5. I use ext...

Hi, I have installed Access connections. It works ok with the following restrictions 1) I use Gnome. The notification of Access Connections is developed for KDE. If you want to change your location you need to start the Access connection program 2) Cannot get Fn + F5 to work. (Well I have several pr...

See if your hard drive is operating in Ultra DMA mode, or has slipped into PIO mode. If the latter, it *will* be slow. ... JD Hurst Is there any command I can use to verify this ? From SLED Hardware Info I can get among the others the following: Block Devices HTS721010G9AT00 Device Name /dev/sda Dr...

Hi, I have decided to drop windows and reinstall my Thinkpad T43P with Linux (2669-H2G upgraded to latest BIOS 1.29 and embedded controller 1.06) Since I will be using several VMWare machines, I have decided to replace my 60GB original HD with an Hitachi Travelstar 7K100-100 HTS721010G9AT00. After r...