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<p>Nex: /* Good News */</p> <hr /> <div>Specific installation notes for the ThinkPad {{T500}}.<br /> <br /> ==General Notes==<br /> 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?<br /> <br /> == Good News == <br /> <br /> Ubuntu 9.10 works great on my T500, with suspend, hibernate, sound, wifi, out of the box. I'm amazed.<br /> <br /> I dream about a T series Thinkpad since years, but they are very expensive in France.<br /> <br /> I found a T500 2055-45U on ebay. I like to buy in Ebay, because €/$ is at my advantage this century.<br /> It's a like new item, just 1 month old in the len,ovo worldwide waranty checker. Seller can send it to France, great.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I found an el cheapo 2nd hard drive caddy adapter, always in ebay, to insert a 2nd disk.<br /> <br /> My second disk was a plain old working ubuntu edgy 8.04 install I made in my Lenovo 3000 N100 I reported here several years ago.<br /> <br /> After booting the linux partition with F12 at boot time, linux start in console mode. Of course, xorg support is obsolete for this new hardware. Good surprise, Ethernet seems working. I plus a cable, a bit of dhcp magic later, I can send the usual update/upgrade sentences.<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> apt-get update<br /> apt-get upgrade<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Now I have an updated version of edgy, I can test a bit of new magic (for me), &quot;do-upgrade-release&quot;<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> do-upgrade-release<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> After a little time of reflexion (computing 98% CPU), it ask me permission to download 1Go of updates. I have the great pleasure to enjoy an optical fiber access. It downloads at 4300ko/s. I'm still amazed with this access, 1 year later.<br /> <br /> I reboot to enjoy the new kernel 2.6.28<br /> It spawns gdm in compatibility mode, as this model enjoy a switchable graphics. It can be superseded in the bios.<br /> <br /> I start in graphic mode, just time to see working: sound, wifi (home AP preference is still saved, it connects out of the box), Ethernet, suspend and hibernate. <br /> <br /> My T500 is a 2055-45U<br /> <br /> ==Distro specific instructions==<br /> <br /> *[[Install Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a ThinkPad T500]]<br /> *[[Install sidux 2008-03 (Ουρέα) on a ThinkPad T500]]<br /> *[[Installing Debian Sid on a ThinkPad T500]]<br /> *[[Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500]]<br /> <br /> ==External Sources==<br /> *[http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=941792 &quot;Using HDMI interface with ati card and fgrlx on linux&quot;]<br /> *[http://eric.persson.tm/?id=public:t500 ThinkPad T500 - Installing Debian Lenny on a ThinkPad T500 turned out to be less than trivial.]</div>

Nex https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Installation_instructions_for_the_ThinkPad_T500&diff=44829 2009-11-24T15:17:33Z

<p>Nex: /* General Notes */</p> <hr /> <div>Specific installation notes for the ThinkPad {{T500}}.<br /> <br /> ==General Notes==<br /> 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?<br /> <br /> == Good News == <br /> <br /> Ubuntu 9.10 works great on my T500, with suspend, hibernate, sound, wifi, out of the box. I'm amazed.<br /> <br /> I dream about a T series Thinkpad since years, but they are very expensive in France.<br /> <br /> I found a T500 2055-45U on ebay. I like to buy in Ebay, because €/$ is at my advantage this century.<br /> It's a like new item, just 1 month old in the len,ovo worldwide waranty checker. Seller can send it to France, great.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> I found an el cheapo 2nd hard drive caddy adapter, always in ebay, to insert a 2nd disk.<br /> <br /> My second disk was a plain old working ubuntu edgy 8.04 install I made in my Lenovo 3000 N100 I reported here several ago.<br /> <br /> After booting the linux partition with F12 at boot time, linux start in console mode. Of course, xorg support is obsolete for this new hardware. Good surprise, Ethernet seems working. I plus a cable, a bit of dhcp magic later, I can send the usual update/upgrade sentences.<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> apt-get update<br /> apt-get upgrade<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> <br /> Now I have an updated version of edgy, I can test a bit of new magic (for me), &quot;do-upgrade-release&quot;<br /> <br /> &lt;pre&gt;<br /> do-upgrade-release<br /> &lt;/pre&gt;<br /> After a little time of reflexion (computing 98% CPU), it ask me permission to download 1Go of updates. I have the great pleasure to enjoy an optical fiber access. It downloads at 4300ko/s. I'm still amazed with this access, 1 year later.<br /> <br /> I reboot to enjoy the new kernel 2.6.28<br /> It spawns gdm in compatibility mode, as this model enjoy a switchable graphics. It can be superseded in the bios.<br /> <br /> I start in graphic mode, just time to see working: sound, wifi (home AP preference is still saved, it connects out of the box), Ethernet, suspend and hibernate. <br /> <br /> My T500 is a 2055-45U<br /> <br /> ==Distro specific instructions==<br /> <br /> *[[Install Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a ThinkPad T500]]<br /> *[[Install sidux 2008-03 (Ουρέα) on a ThinkPad T500]]<br /> *[[Installing Debian Sid on a ThinkPad T500]]<br /> *[[Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500]]<br /> <br /> ==External Sources==<br /> *[http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=941792 &quot;Using HDMI interface with ati card and fgrlx on linux&quot;]<br /> *[http://eric.persson.tm/?id=public:t500 ThinkPad T500 - Installing Debian Lenny on a ThinkPad T500 turned out to be less than trivial.]</div>

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