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Installing Fedora 10 on a ThinkPad T61p

2008-11-05T23:31:05Z

Heffer: Added section on UltraBay and Suspend

== Introduction ==

This document outlines configuring Fedora 10 on your Thinkpad T61p. Most items will work out of the box and a base install will provide you with an almost completely working system. Everything not mentioned on this wikipage is assumed to be working out of the box. Due to the modular nature of the T61 Series there are many different configurations, please read carefully and only make the changes specific to your system.

Feel free to update this Wiki with your information however please ask questions on the Talk page.

Please look here for further informations as well:
* [[Installing_Fedora_10_Generic_Notes | Installing Fedora 10 Generic Notes]]

== Installation Notes ==
The Graphical installer works just fine with the NVIDIA Cards. However, on WUXGA Models the Font within the installer can be tiny because of the wrong calculation of the screen's DPI value.
You can use either the i386 or the x86_64 version on your ThinkPad. If you don't have more than 3GB of RAM you'll probably be better off installing the i386 version unless you have a good reason to use 64-bit software. But even if you do have more than 3GB of RAM you might want to install the i386 version for better software compatibility. The installer will then automatically choose the PAE kernel which enables the system to use the full amount of RAM installed.

Please note, that the SATA Mode must be set to '''AHCI'''. By default it is set to '''Compatibility''' within the BIOS.

== Display/Video ==
Currently you have three options what graphics drivers are concerned:
<ol>
<li>the 2D nv driver shipped with Fedora</li>
<li>the (currently only) 2D nouveau driver also shipped with Fedora</li>
<li>the proprietary 2D/3D nVidia drivers (preferably installed from [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPMFusion])</li>
</ol>

One big pro of the open-source drivers (nv/nouveau) is the support for XRandR 1.2. That allows you to hotplug screens (e.g. a Projector) and configure them without restarting the X Server. Using those drivers will also automatically enable the Fn-F7 button's function of switching between screens.
The official NVIDIA drivers do '''not''' have this feature at the moment (so the Fn-F7 button is currently without function if you use them). So if you do presentations a lot you might want to use the open-source drivers.

=== Installing the official NVIDIA drivers from RPMFusion ===
Now that's easy:

yum install xorg-x11-drv-nvidia akmod-nvidia

This will install the X11 driver as well as the kernel module. Note that this is a special kind of kernel module; a so called akmod. It automatically tries to rebuild the kernel module if it isn't found. You will never have to wait for the RPMFusion maintainers to recompile the module when a new kernel is released again.

== UltraBay Hotswap ==
{{Todo|Maybe create a little RPM Package for easy install}}
If you want to hotswap UltraBay devices there are some changes you need to make for it to work.
First of all create <tt>/etc/udev/rules.d/60-ibm-ultrabay.rules</tt> and add the following:

ENV{BAY_EVENT}=="3", KERNEL=="bay.0", ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="platform", RUN+="/usr/libexec/ultrabay_eject"
ENV{BAY_EVENT}=="1", KERNEL=="bay.0", ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="platform", RUN+="/usr/libexec/ultrabay_insert"

Then grab the hotswap scripts from [[How to hotswap UltraBay devices]] and put them in <tt>/usr/libexec/</tt>.
{{NOTE|Change the path to <tt>/sys/class/scsi_host/host1</tt> and <tt>/sys/class/scsi_device/1:0:0:0</tt> according to your machine.
For the T61p this usually is <tt>/sys/class/scsi_host/host3</tt> and <tt>/sys/class/scsi_device/3:0:0:0</tt>}}
That's it. Now you should be able to hotswap your UltraBay devices without hanging your machine.

== Suspend ==
At the moment suspend and resume are erroneous on the T61p. This is an issue currently being worked on.

[[Category:T61p]]
[[Category:Fedora]]

Installing Fedora 10 on a ThinkPad T61p

2008-11-03T23:30:54Z

Heffer: I will be working on this to get this in shape by Nov. 25th

Installing Fedora 10 Generic Notes

2008-11-03T23:09:53Z

Heffer: New Page for upcoming Fedora 10 release. I will compete this as time allows.

== Installing Fedora 10 Generic Notes ==

This is a guide for generic installation notes of Fedora. This guide is worked on to be complete as of November 25th (Fedora 10 Release).

== Better Fonts ==
I recommend to set the system font to use the "Liberation Fonts" (Liberation Sans, Liberation Serif and Liberation Mono).
To further improve the appereance of the fonts on TFT displays you might as well want to install the package "freetype-freeworld" from the [http://rpmfusion.org/ RPMFusion] Repository. Basically that is the freetype library with the patent encumbered bytecode interpreter turned on.