Installing Fedora 14 on a ThinkPad T41 - Revision history

Tonko at 20:57, 24 July 2011

2011-07-24T20:57:23Z

2011-05-18T09:14:22Z

2011-03-01T12:19:16Z

‎Kernel

2011-03-01T11:05:10Z

‎Kernel

2011-03-01T11:03:53Z

‎Success Chart - Out of the box experience

2010-11-02T14:18:40Z

F14 is out

2010-10-12T07:48:04Z

‎ThinkPad Extra keys

2010-09-30T08:34:37Z

‎Installation

2010-09-30T08:31:56Z

‎ThinkPad Extra keys

2010-09-30T08:31:37Z

‎Success Chart - Out of the box experience

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 {{NOTE|This is based on Fedora 14 with the default GNOME desktop. Your experience with KDE may be different.}}
 {{HELP|Not all models of this ThinkPad are equal, you may have a different WiFi adapter, or some options I did not have. If you tested them, please add their status down below.}}
-{{NOTE|The original author of this page has updated his ThinkPad to [[Installing Fedora 15 on a ThinkPad X40|Fedora 15]], as such this page is no longer updated.}}
+{{NOTE|The original author of this page has updated his ThinkPad to [[Installing Fedora 15 on a ThinkPad T41|Fedora 15]], as such this page is no longer updated.}}
 |}
 == New in this release ==

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 {{NOTE|This is based on Fedora 14 with the default GNOME desktop. Your experience with KDE may be different.}}
 {{HELP|Not all models of this ThinkPad are equal, you may have a different WiFi adapter, or some options I did not have. If you tested them, please add their status down below.}}
 |}
 == New in this release ==

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 It is recommended to edit {{path|/boot/grub/grub.conf}} and add {{bootparm|hpet|force}} to the kernel line. This will activate HPET (High Precision Event Timer), which will allow the CPU to sleep for longer periods and save power.
-You will also want to add {{bootparm|radeon.agpmode|1}} to work around a suspend/resume bug by forcing AGP 1X mode.
+You will also want to add {{bootparm|radeon.agpmode|1}} to work around a suspend/resume bug by forcing AGP 1X mode. Do note that forcing AGP 1x mode will mean less performance in games that copy large sets of textures around (e.g. Quake, World of Padman).
 === X Server - ATI RV250===

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 It is recommended to edit {{path|/boot/grub/grub.conf}} and add {{bootparm|hpet|force}} to the kernel line. This will activate HPET (High Precision Event Timer), which will allow the CPU to sleep for longer periods and save power.
-You may also want to add {{bootparm|radeon.agpmode|-1}} to work around a suspend/resume bug by disabling AGP support.
+You will also want to add {{bootparm|radeon.agpmode|1}} to work around a suspend/resume bug by forcing AGP 1X mode.
 === X Server - ATI RV250===

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 | Software Suspend (hibernate) || {{Cyes}} ||
 |-
-| Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) || {{Cno}} || Xserver hang on resume. [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531825 bugzilla]. boot with {{bootparm|radeon.agpmode|-1}} as a workaround.
+| Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) || {{Cno}} || Xserver hang on resume. [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531825 bugzilla]. Boot with {{bootparm|radeon.agpmode|1}} as a workaround.
 |-
 |colspan=2| [[AD1981B|Audio]] || {{Cyes}} ||

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-{{NOTE|This is based on Fedora 14 '''Beta''' with the default GNOME desktop. Your experience with KDE may be different.}}
+{{NOTE|This is based on Fedora 14 with the default GNOME desktop. Your experience with KDE may be different.}}
 {{HELP|Not all models of this ThinkPad are equal, you may have a different WiFi adapter, or some options I did not have. If you tested them, please add their status down below.}}
 |}

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 | {{key|Fn}}{{key|Space}} || zoom || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cyes|text=}} HAL || {{Cno}} || Known Xorg limitation, scheduled to be fixed with the new XKB2 extension, whenever that may be.
 |-
-| VolumeUp || Volume Up || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} || no OSD
+| VolumeUp || Volume Up || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} ||  no OSD. Hardware and Software volume controls are independent from each other.
 |-
-| VolumeDown || Volume Down || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} || no OSD
+| VolumeDown || Volume Down || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} ||  no OSD. Hardware and Software volume controls are independent from each other.
 |-
-| Mute || Mute || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} || no OSD
+| Mute || Mute || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} ||  no OSD. Hardware and Software mute controls are independent from each other.
 |-
 | {{ibmkey|Access IBM|#495988}} || Vendor key ||thinkpad_acpi ||  {{Cyes|text=}} HAL|| {{Cpart}} || No default action, but can be associated with gnome-keybinding-properties

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 == Installation ==
-Installation is straight forward, but you should do so without any external displays attached; you can follow the generic Fedora install instructions.
+Installation is straight forward, you can follow the generic Fedora install instructions.
 == Configuration ==

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 | {{key|Fn}}{{key|F7}} || videomode || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cyes|text=}} HAL|| {{Cyes}} ||
 |-
-| {{key|Fn}}{{key|F12}} || hibernate || acpi button|| {{Cyes|text=}} HAL|| {{Cpart}} || button works, but hibernate fails
+| {{key|Fn}}{{key|F12}} || hibernate || acpi button|| {{Cyes|text=}} HAL|| {{Cyes}} ||
 |-
 | {{key|Fn}}{{key|Home}} || brightness up || - || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} || no OSD

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 |-
 |rowspan=2|Power Management
-| Software Suspend (hibernate) || {{Cno}} || Seems like it works (saves image), but does not resume image on boot. Instead it does a regular boot.
+| Software Suspend (hibernate) || {{Cyes}} ||
 |-
 | Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) || {{Cno}} || Xserver hang on resume. [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=531825 bugzilla]. boot with {{bootparm|radeon.agpmode|-1}} as a workaround.