I was frustrated with Totem and switched to VLC, a much better media player IMHO for trouble free use if you don't want to dig into issues when Totem doesn't work for you out-of-the-box. I still plan to play around with Totem (and Xine) when I get some time to work out why I had so many hassles.

I did a test install of Fedora 9 (64 bit) on a partition on my x61 this weekend and it worked almost flawlessly (I'm posting now while using it). It didn't detect the Thinkpad specific volume buttons like Ubuntu did when I tried it a few days ago, but then Ubuntu x64 would often freeze on startup wi...