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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

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

Any progress with the T43P linux installation?

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...

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.

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!

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???

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.

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

Ed Gibbs

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

Celestar

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.