Yesterday the fan in my second X60s died completely. Because my girlfriend uses temporarily my third X60s I switched to T61. I did not use it for half a year excluding special occasions such as making a screenshot for this particular thread a few days ago. In the middle of this year I bought two dev...

Personally, I haven't used any optical drive for Linux installations since long time already because using a USB pendrive with an ISO image dd'ed to it is much more convenient and way faster than the ancient physical CD/DVD method. That is entirely true. On the other hand it is good to have mini CD...

I loved 4:3 screens but now they are the past. For some of us they'll never be. This post was created on a 4:3 R61 with a Hydis LED UXGA panel. ...and it replies to my post written on X60s using 1024×768 4:3 display. Apart of this X60s I have the other X60s, some X61 or X61s with X60s lid, T60, T41...

@0liver Try to boot some Linux from USB. I use USB drive with five Linuces: Porteus, Slacko (Puppy), CrunchBang, Tiny Core, and Slax booting them with syslinux. You do not need such fancy things so try just Porteus: http://www.porteus.org/ To install it on USB drive you may use Linux or Windows. Al...

I loved 4:3 screens but now they are the past. I bought T61 because its 16:10 screen was the best choice two years ago. Now I am going to buy T520 using 16:9 screen. I am aware that this last screen is one inch narrower than the previous one. The text on T61 16:10 WSXGA+ 1680×1050 screen is tiny in ...

@ajkula66 Thank you very much for these clarifications. Now I see at Panelook that LP154W02-TL06 from my T61 is CCFL while LP156WD1-TLB2 from these T520 is WLED. I did not realize that it is a crucial difference. In fact I did not know what CCFL and WLED mean. As a result I overlooked a crucial fac...

@ajkula66 In your previous post here you wrote: An incorrect presumption. Samsung WSXGA+ LCD is notably worse than its LG counterpart, although the difference is not as striking as it is between the WUXGA panels. After I found http://www.panelook.com site I thought that I may tie the information ab...

Because I install Linux Mint on the first partitions of my hard drives it was not difficult for me to use get-edid in order to test the graphics chips. First I ran that program on X60s XGA (1024×768): # get-edid -q Intel(r) 82945GM Chipset Family Graphics Chip Accelerated VGA BIOS As you see it repo...

THIS IS OFF-TOPIC POST FOR LINUX FREAKS ONLY! Hi rumbero, It is a great pleasure to know that someone else uses nowadays Window Maker. My pleasure is even bigger because you are a maintainer of the Linux distribution optimized for Window Maker (Debian-based). Here is my Linux background... I starte...

Plus, if that joint is in Wroclaw, you could drop a link:) My English is not too good so I am not sure that I understand your suggestion. I suppose that you are asking me to post a link to the outlet’s website if it is in Wrocław. It is not. I live in Wrocław. That outlet is in Częstochowa – 200 km...

I understand. I was not enough precise once again. I own 15.4" widescreen T61 ThinkPad and that outlet sells 15.4" widescreen T61 ThinkPads as well. Since LG WUXGA is good and Samsung WUXGA is mediocre I can not order T61 with WUXGA risking that I will buy two laptops with the mediocre Samsung displ...

@600X Thank you! So my problem concerning WSXGA+ displays is solved. They are better than standard LCD screens built in most older ThinkPads including X60s. As I result I can order T61 ThinkPads using WSXGA+ display, 2400 MHz or better CPU, and Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (to avoid nVIDI...

@RealBlackStuff It seems to me that you replies my questions faster than I am able to formulate them properly. Thank you! In fact I am not a newbie here. I joined the forum in 2010 but I remained silent for five years. As I see I have to be more precise asking my questions... Among many other Think...

Is it possible to find a non-modified T61 ThinkPad using 15.4" FlexView widescreen display? I own such a machine using IPS widescreen display with 1680×1050 resolution (TYPE 6463-B45 S/N L3-M4600 ) but because I bought it second-hand I can not be sure that it uses the original display. I am asking t...