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Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-10-18T22:22:49Z

Jonatha: /* Modem */

[[:Category:T500|T500]]

==Model specifics==

Model 2242 with

*P8400
*Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
*WSXGA+ display
*8G RAM
*250G 5400rpm hard disk
*Serial Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi III Drive (8x Dual Layer)
*Intel WiFi Link 5100/5300 WLAN controller
*ExpressCard/54 slot
*Bluetooth
*OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64
*Gnome
**Tried KDE first, but it was too flaky. Installed OK the first time, but then I hosed it up trying to get DVDs to work. Reinstalled from scratch and had invisible icons in the system tray. Reinstalled from scratch again and volume controls didn't work on sound....

==Audio==
*Works out of the box.
*Volume up and down work. Mute works but only mutes the speakers, not the headphones. OSD shows volume level.

==Video==
*Works out of the box

==Networking==
*Wired and wireless work out of the box.

==Keyboard==
*Fn+ combinations:
**F2 (lock) works (locks X).
**F3 (battery) doesn't do anything.
**F4 (suspend) works.
**F5 (toggle Bluetooth power) works
**F7 (toggle external monitor) causes the screen to blink but doesn't do anything. (I don't have an external monitor attached, which might possibly have something to do with it.)
**F8 (toggle trackpoint/touchpad) doesn't do anything. (I have the touchpad disabled in the BIOS.)
**F9 (not sure what that's supposed to be) doesn't do anything. (Actually, I think that might have something to do with docking/undocking, and I haven't tried the dock yet.)
**F12 (hibernate) works.
**PrtSc (SysRq) doesn't do anything.
**ScrLk (NumLk) works. Embedded numeric keypad works as expected when NumLk is on.
**Pause (Break) doesn't do anything.
**Home (increase LCD brightness) and End (decrease LCD brightness) work. OSD shows brightness level.
**PgUp (ThinkLight) works.
**Spacebar (magnify) doesn't do anything.
**Cursor keys (Previous Track/Stop/Play-Pause/Next Track) work, at least while Banshee is running.

==DVD==
*DVD didn't have a region code set; starting xine in a console got various errors from libdvdread and a popup saying the DVD couldn't be read (corrupt or encrypted), even with libdvdcss from Videolan and replacments for xine/libxine1/etc. from Packman. Got regionset and set the region to 1. Restarted X and xine works now.

==Power management==
*Works out of the box.

==Modem==
*Doesn't work. Free version of Linuxant driver installation builds the alsa-driver-linuxant package (or uses a pre-built one) once gcc and kernel-sources are installed, but fails to build the hsfmodem package. Complains that something's missing but doesn't say what. Linuxant tech support thinks it should work with those packages installed.

==Samsung SCX-4100 Multifunction==
*Works after installing the Samsung driver. The install will add the current user to group lp, but that won't take effect unless you logoff. If you don't, the Samsung control panel won't find the scanner unless you run it as root or make it suid root.

Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-10-17T12:33:10Z

Jonatha: /* Modem */

Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-10-16T11:07:53Z

Jonatha: /* Power management */

Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-10-16T11:05:47Z

Jonatha:

Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-10-13T23:23:58Z

Jonatha: /* Observations out of the box */

[[:Category:T500|T500]]

==Model specifics==

Model 2242 with

*P8400
*Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
*WSXGA+ display
*8G RAM
*250G 5400rpm hard disk
*Serial Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi III Drive (8x Dual Layer)
*Intel WiFi Link 5100/5300 WLAN controller
*ExpressCard/54 slot
*Bluetooth
*OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64
*Gnome
**Tried KDE first, but it was too flaky. Installed OK the first time, but then I hosed it up trying to get DVDs to work. Reinstalled from scratch and had invisible icons in the system tray. Reinstalled from scratch again and volume controls didn't work on sound....

==Observations out of the box==

Automatic configuration, enter the least amount of information possible for customization.

*Audio, video, networking (wired and wireless) work fine.
*Volume up and down and mute work. (Mute doesn't mute the headphones, only the speakers.) OSD shows volume level.
*DVD didn't have a region code set; starting xine in a console got various errors from libdvdread and a popup saying the DVD couldn't be read (corrupt or encrypted), even with libdvdcss from Videolan and replacments for xine/libxine1/etc. from Packman. Got regionset and set the region to 1. Restarted X and xine works now.
*Fn+ combinations:
**F2 (lock) doesn't do anything.
**F3 (battery) doesn't do anything.
**F4 (suspend) works.
**F5 (toggle Bluetooth power) works
**F7 (toggle external monitor) doesn't do anything. (I don't have an external monitor attached, which might possibly have something to do with it.)
**F8 (toggle trackpoint/touchpad) doesn't do anything. (I have the touchpad disabled in the BIOS.)
**F9 (not sure what that's supposed to be) doesn't do anything.
**F12 (hibernate) works.
**PrtSc (SysRq) doesn't do anything.
**ScrLk (NumLk) works. Embedded numeric keypad works as expected when NumLk is on.
**Pause (Break) doesn't do anything.
**Home (increase LCD brightness) and End (decrease LCD brightness) work. OSD shows brightness level.
**PgUp (ThinkLight) works.
**Spacebar (magnify) doesn't do anything.
**Cursor keys (Previous Track/Stop/Play-Pause/Next Track) work, at least while Banshee is running.
*Power management (suspend and hibernate) works when initiated from the KDE applet.

[[Category:T500]]

Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-10-10T00:18:28Z

Jonatha: /* Observations out of the box */

[[:Category:T500|T500]]

==Model specifics==

Model 2242 with

*P8400
*Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
*WSXGA+ display
*8G RAM
*250G 5400rpm hard disk
*Serial Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi III Drive (8x Dual Layer)
*Intel WiFi Link 5100/5300 WLAN controller
*ExpressCard/54 slot
*Bluetooth
*OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64
*Gnome
**Tried KDE first, but it was too flaky. Installed OK the first time, but then I hosed it up trying to get DVDs to work. Reinstalled from scratch and had invisible icons in the system tray. Reinstalled from scratch again and volume controls didn't work on sound....

==Observations out of the box==

Automatic configuration, enter the least amount of information possible for customization.

*Audio, video, networking (wired and wireless) work fine.
*Volume up and down and mute work. (Mute doesn't mute the headphones, only the speakers.) OSD shows volume level.
*DVD didn't have a region code set; starting xine in a console got various errors from libdvdread and a popup saying the DVD couldn't be read (corrupt or encrypted), even with libdvdcss from Videolan and replacments for xine/libxine1/etc. from Packman. Got regionset and set the region to 1. Restarted X and xine works now.
*Fn+ combinations:
**F2 (lock) doesn't do anything.
**F3 (battery) doesn't do anything.
**F4 (suspend) doesn't do anything.
**F5 (toggle Bluetooth power) works
**F7 (toggle external monitor) doesn't do anything. (I don't have an external monitor attached, which might possibly have something to do with it.)
**F8 (toggle trackpoint/touchpad) doesn't do anything. (I have the touchpad disabled in the BIOS.)
**F9 (not sure what that's supposed to be) doesn't do anything.
**F12 (hibernate) works.
**PrtSc (SysRq) doesn't do anything.
**ScrLk (NumLk) works. Embedded numeric keypad works as expected when NumLk is on.
**Pause (Break) doesn't do anything.
**Home (increase LCD brightness) and End (decrease LCD brightness) work. OSD shows brightness level.
**PgUp (ThinkLight) works.
**Spacebar (magnify) doesn't do anything.
**Cursor keys (Previous Track/Stop/Play-Pause/Next Track) work, at least while Banshee is running.
*Power management (suspend and hibernate) works when initiated from the KDE applet.

[[Category:T500]]

Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-10-10T00:17:07Z

Jonatha: /* Observations out of the box */

[[:Category:T500|T500]]

==Model specifics==

Model 2242 with

*P8400
*Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
*WSXGA+ display
*8G RAM
*250G 5400rpm hard disk
*Serial Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi III Drive (8x Dual Layer)
*Intel WiFi Link 5100/5300 WLAN controller
*ExpressCard/54 slot
*Bluetooth
*OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64
*Gnome
**Tried KDE first, but it was too flaky. Installed OK the first time, but then I hosed it up trying to get DVDs to work. Reinstalled from scratch and had invisible icons in the system tray. Reinstalled from scratch again and volume controls didn't work on sound....

==Observations out of the box==

Automatic configuration, enter the least amount of information possible for customization.

*Audio, video, networking (wired and wireless) work fine.
*Volume up and down and mute work. (Mute doesn't mute the headphones, only the speakers.)
*DVD didn't have a region code set; starting xine in a console got various errors from libdvdread and a popup saying the DVD couldn't be read (corrupt or encrypted), even with libdvdcss from Videolan and replacments for xine/libxine1/etc. from Packman. Got regionset and set the region to 1. Restarted X and xine works now.
*Fn+ combinations:
**F2 (lock) doesn't do anything.
**F3 (battery) doesn't do anything.
**F4 (suspend) doesn't do anything.
**F5 (toggle Bluetooth power) works
**F7 (toggle external monitor) doesn't do anything. (I don't have an external monitor attached, which might possibly have something to do with it.)
**F8 (toggle trackpoint/touchpad) doesn't do anything. (I have the touchpad disabled in the BIOS.)
**F9 (not sure what that's supposed to be) doesn't do anything.
**F12 (hibernate) works.
**PrtSc (SysRq) doesn't do anything.
**ScrLk (NumLk) works. Embedded numeric keypad works as expected when NumLk is on.
**Pause (Break) doesn't do anything.
**Home (increase LCD brightness) and End (decrease LCD brightness) work. There is no OSD showing the brightness level, however.
**PgUp (ThinkLight) works.
**Spacebar (magnify) doesn't do anything.
**Cursor keys (Previous Track/Stop/Play-Pause/Next Track) work, at least while Banshee is running.
*Power management (suspend and hibernate) works when initiated from the KDE applet.

[[Category:T500]]

Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-10-06T23:33:37Z

Jonatha: /* Observations out of the box */

[[:Category:T500|T500]]

==Model specifics==

Model 2242 with

*P8400
*Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
*WSXGA+ display
*8G RAM
*250G 5400rpm hard disk
*Serial Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi III Drive (8x Dual Layer)
*Intel WiFi Link 5100/5300 WLAN controller
*ExpressCard/54 slot
*Bluetooth
*OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64
*Gnome
**Tried KDE first, but it was too flaky. Installed OK the first time, but then I hosed it up trying to get DVDs to work. Reinstalled from scratch and had invisible icons in the system tray. Reinstalled from scratch again and volume controls didn't work on sound....

==Observations out of the box==

Automatic configuration, enter the least amount of information possible for customization.

*Audio, video, networking (wired and wireless) work fine.
*Volume up and down and mute work.
*DVD didn't have a region code set; starting xine in a console got various errors from libdvdread and a popup saying the DVD couldn't be read (corrupt or encrypted), even with libdvdcss from Videolan and replacments for xine/libxine1/etc. from Packman. Got regionset and set the region to 1. Restarted X and xine works now.
*Fn+ combinations:
**F2 (lock) doesn't do anything.
**F3 (battery) doesn't do anything.
**F4 (suspend) doesn't do anything.
**F5 (toggle Bluetooth power) works
**F7 (toggle external monitor) doesn't do anything. (I don't have an external monitor attached, which might possibly have something to do with it.)
**F8 (toggle trackpoint/touchpad) doesn't do anything. (I have the touchpad disabled in the BIOS.)
**F9 (not sure what that's supposed to be) doesn't do anything.
**F12 (hibernate) doesn't do anything.
**PrtSc (SysRq) doesn't do anything.
**ScrLk (NumLk) works. Embedded numeric keypad works as expected when NumLk is on.
**Pause (Break) doesn't do anything.
**Home (increase LCD brightness) and End (decrease LCD brightness) work. There is no OSD showing the brightness level, however.
**PgUp (ThinkLight) works.
**Spacebar (magnify) doesn't do anything.
**Cursor keys (Previous Track/Stop/Play-Pause/Next Track) don't do anything
*Power management (suspend and hibernate) works when initiated from the KDE applet.

[[Category:T500]]

Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-10-06T23:30:16Z

Jonatha: /* Model specifics */

[[:Category:T500|T500]]

==Model specifics==

Model 2242 with

*P8400
*Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
*WSXGA+ display
*8G RAM
*250G 5400rpm hard disk
*Serial Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi III Drive (8x Dual Layer)
*Intel WiFi Link 5100/5300 WLAN controller
*ExpressCard/54 slot
*Bluetooth
*OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64
*Gnome
**Tried KDE first, but it was too flaky. Installed OK the first time, but then I hosed it up trying to get DVDs to work. Reinstalled from scratch and had invisible icons in the system tray. Reinstalled from scratch again and volume controls didn't work on sound....

==Observations out of the box==

*Audio, video, networking (wired and wireless) work fine.
*Volume up and down work; mute doesn't.
**Mute now works. Not sure if I did something (I did go into YasST/Hardware/Keyboard Layout and change the Type to "IBM ThinkPad R60/T60/...."; I also went into the volume applet's Setting and played around with some of the shortcuts but didn't commit any changes) or if I just wasn't making good contact the first time.
*Kaffeine/xine seem to have trouble with DVDs (encrypted or corrupt DVD messags). Packman and videolan are in the repositories list, before the stock openSUSE.org repositories...
*Fn+ combinations:
**F2 (lock) doesn't do anything.
**F3 (battery) doesn't do anything.
**F4 (suspend) doesn't do anything.
**F5 (toggle Bluetooth power) works
**F7 (toggle external monitor) doesn't do anything. (I don't have an external monitor attached, which might possibly have something to do with it.)
**F8 (toggle trackpoint/touchpad) doesn't do anything. (I have the touchpad disabled in the BIOS.)
**F9 (not sure what that's supposed to be) doesn't do anything.
**F12 (hibernate) doesn't do anything.
**PrtSc (SysRq) doesn't do anything.
**ScrLk (NumLk) works. Embedded numeric keypad works as expected when NumLk is on.
**Pause (Break) doesn't do anything.
**Home (increase LCD brightness) and End (decrease LCD brightness) work. There is no OSD showing the brightness level, however.
**PgUp (ThinkLight) works.
**Spacebar (magnify) doesn't do anything.
**Cursor keys (Previous Track/Stop/Play-Pause/Next Track) don't do anything
*Power management (suspend and hibernate) works when initiated from the KDE applet.

[[Category:T500]]

Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-09-29T19:33:09Z

Jonatha: /* Observations out of the box */

Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500

2009-09-29T00:39:39Z

Jonatha: â†Created page with 'T500 ==Model specifics== Model 2242 with *P8400 *Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD *WSXGA+ display *8G RAM *250G 5400rpm hard disk *Serial Ul...'

Installation instructions for the ThinkPad T500

2009-09-29T00:27:22Z

Jonatha: /* Distro specific instructions */

Specific installation notes for the ThinkPad {{T500}}.

==General Notes==
T61 is running out of life and had a very good linux support. {{T500}} is one of the follow-ups with a new and more performant hardware. Can it stay up with the linux Compability of the T61 series?

==Distro specific instructions==

*[[Install Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a ThinkPad T500]]
*[[Install sidux 2008-03 (Ουρέα) on a ThinkPad T500]]
*[[Installing Debian Sid on a ThinkPad T500]]
*[[Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500]]

==External Sources==
*[http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=941792 "Using HDMI interface with ati card and fgrlx on linux"]
*[http://eric.persson.tm/?id=public:t500 ThinkPad T500 - Installing Debian Lenny on a ThinkPad T500 turned out to be less than trivial.]