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===Opening Notes:===

1) Initial attempts for SLED 10 Non-SP1 had extreme lack of hardware support for the new chipset and devices in the T61.

2) System appears to be stable as a rock, but at this time I am unable to get sound and wi-fi to function.

===Hard Disk Controller===
When the system boots hit F1 to enter the Bios, select Config->Serial ATA (SATA) and set the SATA Controller mode option to "Compatibility".

===Video:===

====Intel:====
I have no idea how the Intel video works as to I have the NVidia NVS140M card.

====Nvidia:====

Install latest NVidia driver, at time of writing 100.14.11.  If installed properly full 3d rendering works, as well as compiz/beryl.  Currently getting 40-100fps in WoW.

{{cmdroot|sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run}} 

If the file you download is newer that 100.14.11 make sure you modify the command appropriately

Reboot: 
{{cmdroot|sudo shutdown -r now}}

After Rebooting Gnome should start normally

{{NOTE|With each new Kernel release this process must be repeated}}

===Network:===

Integrated 10/100/1000 Intel Supported out of the box, no changes/tweaks necessary

===Wireless:===
 The IBM chip works great - else you must resort to the intel drivers from their site.

===FireWire / USB2.0:===

IEEE1394 Mini Firewire jack on front of machine seems to mount removable hard drives just fine thru Gnome w/o additional config.
Hot-Plug for USB2 storage devices do not seem to work however.  If you reboot you can get them to mount.

===Audio:===

Build alsa-driver from the hg source, the issue is actually a mixer issue, but unfortunately the patch has not found its way downstream yet.

===Multi-Card Reader===

For SLED with the current kernel you need to patch the sources to support [http://mmc.drzeus.cx/wiki/Linux/Drivers/sdhci SDHCI] or go with the prebuilt backport from opensuse.  This support has been merged as of kernel 2.6.17, so when SLES/SLED goes up a version in kernel you won't need to worry about this any more.

Follow the directions on the [http://en.opensuse.org/SLE10SP1_Ricoh_internal_cardreaders SDHCI Backport] page.

==References==
* This guide is listed at the [http://tuxmobil.org/ibm.html TuxMobil Linux laptop and notebook installation guides survey (IBM/Lenovo)].

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