Installing OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 on a ThinkPad T500

Model

Lenovo Thinkpad T500 2081-CTO, BIOS 6FET76WW (3.23)

General

I installed OpenSUSE Leap 42.3 from DVD, selecting the default KDE desktop. Almost everything works as it should, but I did have some problems with the graphics.

Graphics

As User:Johnny noted in Installing OpenSUSE Leap 42.2 on a ThinkPad T500 the fast GPU consumes too much power (about 7W) so I disabled Switchable Graphics in the BIOS many years ago and now use just the Intel i965 graphics.

I found that the screen would often stay black after bootup, sometimes with a mouse cursor. The first workaround that I found was to create /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/49-device-intel.conf containing this:

Power Management

Suspend to RAM works out of the box.