T60p with SUSE 10 Enterprise and XGL

[Ujeni.net]

Hi everyone,

Looks like ATI and SUSE released their software at almost the same time. ATI now supports the v5200 and SUSE released a preview of SUSE 10 Enterprise with XGL built in. It took me a little while to get everything running, but I can confirm that, with a little work, the t60p can run SUSE 10 Enetrprise quite well.

Not sure if anyone here is interested in this, so I thought I would offer a little support if anyone needs it. Let me know if you have questions.

[MaloventEvil]

i'm very interested; can you post a writeup about the steps you had to take?

[Ujeni.net]

Ok, here’s a summary of what I did to get SUSE 10 Enterprise running on my t60p (200786u). For your information, I have a dual boot system right now. Windows and SUSE.

You will need to download and burn the SUSE 10 Enterprise disks. I only needed the first 4, but you might as well get all of them anyway. You can download them here (you want the desktop version):

http://www.novell.com/linux/prerelease.html

Finally, before we begin, keep in mind that you can screw lots up with this. Backup your files or risk losing it all if something goes wrong. I didn’t lose anything, but you might not be so lucky.

1. After getting windows up and running, I installed Partition Magic 8.
2. Then I deleted the recover partition. (DON’T do this unless you have verified backup disks).
3. I then created a new partition to install SUSE 10 Ent. Installation really takes less than 3 gigs, but I would not suggest less than 10 gigs to be safe.
4. Partition magic makes you restart to make all the partition changes.
5. Upon restarting, place the first SUSE 10 disk in the drive and restart.
6. The machine will boot up on the disk. Go through the installation as usual until you get to the partition step.
7. At this step, you will need to make sure that SUSE 10 Ent is going to be installed on the partition that you created and not a resizing other partitions. I did not set up a swap partition, just a bootable (“/”) Ext 2 partition.
8. You can also set up your GRUB boot loader settings here (or around here).
9. Install SUSE 10 Ent. And setup everything it asks you to
10. Once you are finished, you should see a nice blue GRUB boot loader when you restart your machine. You can always get back to windows here.
11. Ok, now you have a dual boot system, but you do not have the ATI drivers installed and therefore no XGL. This part is a little rough, but it should work.
12. Download the latest drivers here:

https://support.ati.com/ics/support/def ... olderID=27

13. Installing ATI drivers is a pain. I found a tutorial that seemed to work for me here:

http://linux.wordpress.com/2005/10/11/s ... tallation/

14. You will need to install the "kernel source", "gcc" and "make" packages in YAST.
15. Follow the tutorial. When you get to step 3, type this instead of what the tutorial says:

sh ./ati-driver-installer-8.26.18-x86.run –buildpkg SuSE/SLED10-IA32

16. Skip to step 5 and finish out the instructions
17. When you are done, restart the machine. When you get back to the SUSE desktop, open a terminal and type “fglrxinfo”…the drivers should not be vesa…they should be the ATI drivers. If not, you will need to uninstall the drivers and try it again.
18. Another way to test if you card is using the fglrx drivers is by typing “glxgears” in the terminal. You should get very smooth movement in the gears.
19. Ok, finally, you need to force XGL to use the v5200 (although the drivers are good, XGL does not know about this card yet and will report that it doesn’t show up in its database). Open the control center and the XGL control panel.
20. Hold the shift button and double click on the “disabled” text. This will force it on. Restart and you should have XGL fun.

That should do it.

[magneto]

Do you have the same issues that I've described in

http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=27151

?

[wareynolds]

I went to desktop effects, installed software and it took. It says it is not supported, but seems to work.