SLED 10 (also SUSE?) Install on T60 Instructions

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dfumento · #1 Post by **dfumento** » Tue Oct 17, 2006 10:10 pm

http://www.softwareinreview.com/cms/content/view/54/

dfumento · #2 Post by **dfumento** » Fri Oct 20, 2006 12:01 pm

Followed the instructions and it made a dual boot system for me on Thinkpad X60s. Note that the original instructions are for the T60p. Wireless works, shows 4.5 hours on battery. Instructions include those for using software development SDKs.

It includes downloading four Thinkpad related pieces of software (modem driver, Access Connections, Power Manager, Configuration).

I didn't try out all of the functions. It appears there is no support for EVDO.

I read on the web in Computerworld that this version of Linux on Thinkpads was made at request of Intel for chip designers. A lot of chip design software runs off of Linux.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/art ... Id=9002465

This version of Linux appears that it will be the "standard" over Redhat.

Cost is $50/year for maintenance, but can download 60-day eval.

dfumento · #3 Post by **dfumento** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 12:44 pm

EVDO and Linux:
http://www.evdoforums.com/thread2095.html

dfumento · #4 Post by **dfumento** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 8:08 am

On lowest brightness, the unit gets 6:40 hours and the screen is still very readable.

The following ThinkVantage features work:
Configuration
F3, F4, F5, F12, F-Home, F-End, F-PgUp
(Power manager, Suspend to RAM, Access Connections, Hibernate to disk, increase brightness, decrease brightness, Thinklight).

Bluetooth.

Milos · #5 Post by **Milos** » Mon Oct 30, 2006 6:04 pm

dfumento wrote:On lowest brightness, the unit gets 6:40 hours and the screen is still very readable.

The following ThinkVantage features work:
Configuration
F3, F4, F5, F12, F-Home, F-End, F-PgUp
(Power manager, Suspend to RAM, Access Connections, Hibernate to disk, increase brightness, decrease brightness, Thinklight).

Bluetooth.

dfumento,

Have you tried any linux distros on an A31? I see A30 and A31p listed in your sig.. I want to put linux on my A31 and am looking for a reliable distro.

Milos

dfumento · #6 Post by **dfumento** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 11:00 am

I think I had Redhat 9 running on my A31p.

I would try the Novell SLED version and see how it does.

Milos · #7 Post by **Milos** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 1:04 pm

dfumento wrote:I think I had Redhat 9 running on my A31p.

I would try the Novell SLED version and see how it does.

Does SLED have advantages over OpenSuse, or is the only difference availability of support?

Thanks!

Milos

dfumento · #8 Post by **dfumento** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 2:02 pm

Milos wrote: Does SLED have advantages over OpenSuse, or is the only difference availability of support?

I don't know the answer to your question. Here is the official Linux system supported list for various laptops:

http://www-306.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... 8NT8D.html

NeoMatrix · #9 Post by **NeoMatrix** » Tue Oct 31, 2006 5:29 pm

Milos wrote: Does SLED have advantages over OpenSuse, or is the only difference availability of support?

Thanks!

Milos

I think this will answer your questions....

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

Basically, SLED is an enterprise level package which includes more support, and you pay for that service ($50/year).

dfumento · #10 Post by **dfumento** » Fri Dec 01, 2006 8:25 am

For help, use these newsgroups:

support-forums.novell.com is the news server (use with Outlook Express).

Newsgroups are novell.support.sled.*

Spif · #11 Post by **Spif** » Fri Dec 29, 2006 5:08 pm

I installed SUSE 10.2 on my X60s. Almost everything worked out-of-box (including iwp3945 with WPA support). Everything was running nicely, but when I tried installing the ThinkVantage Configuration tool, my package manager completely broke. It doesn't respond or anything.

I'll try looking into this tomorrow. Hopefully I can solve this and try out the other ThinkVantage programs.

If I get it working, I might write a little howto or something. Found out how to put the wireless card into a power saving state, which may help a lot of people.

By the way, anybody know where I can get information about horizontal and vertical sync rate of my screen? Without that info, I am stuck running 60Hz, which drains the battery faster.

SimoneDice · #12 Post by **SimoneDice** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:07 am

Is it better to do the 64 bit or the 32 bit version with a Core 2 Duo processor?

Spif · #13 Post by **Spif** » Sat Dec 30, 2006 3:18 am

32 bit all the way. Too many problems with 64 IMO.

Anyway, got zenworks working again. None of the ThinkVantage programs work. Only the battery application would install and it couldn't find my battery, so...

dfumento · #14 Post by **dfumento** » Sun Dec 31, 2006 12:00 pm

Spif wrote:Anyway, got zenworks working again. None of the ThinkVantage programs work. Only the battery application would install and it couldn't find my battery, so...

Odd, because I had no problem with getting things to work whatsoever.

cb474 · #15 Post by **cb474** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 1:51 am

Will the Thinkvantage tools work with OpenSuse?

Superego · #16 Post by **Superego** » Thu Mar 01, 2007 8:32 am

I've used Access Connections, Power Manager and Thinkpad Configuration on SuSE 10.2, and I have some of the keyboard features enabled. You can download them from Lenovo's website, but I'm not sure if there are more programs available. I also had the fingerprint scanner working on 10.1 (but not with a Thinkvantage package) but took it off because it was a little flaky.

sliston32 · #17 Post by **sliston32** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 4:52 am

Superego
Can you please post a link to the drivers on Lenovo's site as the links in the softwareinreview article are leading to a dead FTP site.
Thanks
S

Superego · #18 Post by **Superego** » Thu Mar 08, 2007 9:46 am

sliston32,

Here's the link to the software and drivers for Linux:

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. ... MIGR-65367

Be aware that these are for a T60p (I don't believe anything exists for a Z60, as the T series was the only line promoted as Linux-friendly) so I have no idea how they'll act on your system. I should note that my system (2623-DDU) is technically not supported but I had no problems. I would just steer clear of the BIOS update to be on the safe side. Hope this helps.

Superego

SLED 10 (also SUSE?) Install on T60 Instructions

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