Lenovo SLED utilities...not very impressed

[littlesaint]

These utilities seem to be nothing more then GUI apps that allow to setup things in a "ThinkPad" like way.

The PowerManagement install doesn't configure a functional suspend-to-RAM, and there isn't anything in the GUI tool that can't be done with YAST.

The ATI driver is just an updated fglrx driver that compiles a kernel module at install. Which means you'd have to re-install it everytime you update the kernel.

The Config utility doesn't work under GNOME. Neither does the PM toolbar applet. These are applets for KDE which isn't the SLED default.

I haven't bothered with Access Connections because I imagine it doesn't do anything NetworkManager can't and probably requires KDE.

Maybe if you use KDE, you'll have better success, but I really don't see any advantage to using these any of these under GNOME.