t43p & Suse9.3 pro

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rajpanesar · #1 Post by **rajpanesar** » Mon Apr 25, 2005 7:06 am

Hi All,

As soon as I receive my t43p I will be partitioning my drive and installing Suse9.3 pro.

Has anyone had any problems or recommendations that I should know?

Thanks

Skywing · #2 Post by **Skywing** » Thu May 19, 2005 9:16 am

im running SuSE 9.2 on thinkpad in sig, not a single problem, ill be upgrading it to 9.3 this afternoon

chbone · #3 Post by **chbone** » Wed May 25, 2005 7:05 pm

Any progress with the T43P linux installation?

jescombe · #4 Post by **jescombe** » Thu May 26, 2005 11:16 am

I'm running FC4-test3 on a regular T43, these are the issues I've needed to address:

Suspend to RAM -- needed (experimental) patches to get working due to the disk being presented as a SATA device.

Suspend to disk -- have had to hardwire the ata-piix driver into my kernel to get this working (should work with initrd but I never managed it).

DMA on DVD drive -- need to disable the generic IDE drivers in the kernel config and patch the libata code to enable PATA support (experimental).

x300 graphics -- working but xorg log file reports that DRI not yet supported.

Fingerprint reader -- no linux support, but I enrolled fingerprints before overwriting the XP preinstall, and they work fine as boot time protection.

Have not tried the modem yet, bluetooth and wireless (madwifi) working fine...

henryu · #5 Post by **henryu** » Thu May 26, 2005 3:34 pm

As far as I know, TP series do not have ASP supprot for Linux/*BSD. I just want to konw whether ASP is a must for TP series or not? thanks for your reply.

rajpanesar · #6 Post by **rajpanesar** » Wed Jun 08, 2005 10:38 am

Completed my Suse9.3 installation and everything seems to be working fine!!

Only thing I noted was that I have ACPI enabled and therefore cannot use the IBM power management settings but so far so good!

u.vivarelli · #7 Post by **u.vivarelli** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:04 pm

I would install suse 9.3 on my t43p...

Actually I have 2 partition (3 with the hidden partition): c: NTFS 22Gb and d: NTFS 50Gb

Is correct, before install linux, to use partition magic and divide the "d" partition of 50gb in 2 partition: "d" of 35gb and a ew partition" of 15gb and install linux on this partition of 15gb???

JHaislet · #8 Post by **JHaislet** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 8:11 am

You can also resize the partitions in the SuSE 9.3 installer program. I just added 9.3 to my XP SP2 install and everything went fine.

SuSE 9.3 runs really slow though, but it's a graphics issue, as the default install doesn't have 3D support for the X300. I assume there are some linux drivers out, but none were listed uder Yast like the Nvidia ones were.

I'll look into the graphics issues later this week.

egibbs · #9 Post by **egibbs** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 9:46 am

How do the controls for the Wifi and Bluetooth work under SuSE? That's my one big complaing with Ubuntu.

Ed Gibbs

Celestar · #10 Post by **Celestar** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:46 pm

I *think* Wifi is disabled by unloading the module, but i'm not sure. Bluetooth is toggled with Fn-F5 on my T42p.

Celestar

JHaislet · #11 Post by **JHaislet** » Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:48 pm

I had Bluetooth turned off during the install of Suse 9.3 Pro.

It did however, recognize and correctly install both the Broadcom ethernet adapter & the Intel 2915 wireless card. The internet seemed really sluggish, but I think that was due to the lack of 3D accelleration mentioned above.

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