Installing Fedora 8 on a ThinkPad T61p - Revision history

TpUser0: PAE linked

2017-03-12T16:12:29Z

PAE linked

2011-08-05T15:37:42Z

‎Fingerprint Reader

2008-01-23T14:14:01Z

Add note about 32bit vs 64bit and 3 GB vs 4 GB available memory

2008-01-14T23:13:53Z

‎Audio

2008-01-14T09:01:22Z

‎Audio

2008-01-13T20:30:55Z

Added notes for AHCI/Compatibility mode

2008-01-13T09:35:27Z

Linked to the Synaptics driver article

2008-01-13T09:29:39Z

Removed redundant fingerprint reader config info and pointed at the dedicated article for this

2008-01-12T17:58:27Z

‎Audio

2008-01-11T17:15:41Z

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 == Memory ==
-Using the 32bit version of Fedora, I had to use the PAE kernel to be able to use all 4GB, otherwise a maximum of 3GB is only seen. With the 64bit (x86_64) all memory is seen perfectly.
+Using the 32bit version of Fedora, I had to use the [[PAE]] kernel to be able to use all 4GB, otherwise a maximum of 3GB is only seen. With the 64bit (x86_64) all memory is seen perfectly.
 [[Category:T61p]]
 [[Category:Fedora]]

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 == Fingerprint Reader ==
-Is supported by the thinkfinger package. Gnome and KDM (kde login manager) seem to be working quite well, KDE is not fully supported yet.
+Update: see [[How to enable the integrated fingerprint reader]] for alternatives.
 == Memory ==

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 == Memory ==
-I had to use the PAE kernel to be able to use all 4GB, otherwise a maximum of 3GB is only seen.
+Using the 32bit version of Fedora, I had to use the PAE kernel to be able to use all 4GB, otherwise a maximum of 3GB is only seen. With the 64bit (x86_64) all memory is seen perfectly.
 [[Category:T61p]]
 [[Category:Fedora]]

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	Now the volume keys are sending F21 and F22 which I assigned to the global shortcut in the kmix configuration for volume up and down. Furthermore I added a link in the ~/.kde/Autostart folder to kmix to make sure it is always started (somehow it will not restart itself).		Now the volume keys are sending F21 and F22 which I assigned to the global shortcut in the kmix configuration for volume up and down. Furthermore I added a link in the ~/.kde/Autostart folder to kmix to make sure it is always started (somehow it will not restart itself).
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		+	=== Issues ===
		+	Sound driver seems to crash sometimes before or after suspend. Please share you experiences, do you know of any relating bugs?

	== Network ==		== Network ==

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      keycode 174 = 0xffd2
      keycode 176 = 0xffd3
 </code>

← Older revision		Revision as of 20:30, 13 January 2008
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	Booting from the installation CD/DVD is only working in text mode due to the nVidia cards, you can use later vesa mode or nVidia drivers or livna nVidia drivers for X		Booting from the installation CD/DVD is only working in text mode due to the nVidia cards, you can use later vesa mode or nVidia drivers or livna nVidia drivers for X
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		+	Note: The for the initial install of older Windows (XP/Server 2k3 Gold & SP1) disks you need the SATA interface to operate in ''Compatibility'' mode; however, Fedora 8 needs it in ''AHCI'' mode. If T61p is set to ''Compatibility'' mode in BIOS, install will likely hang or display giberish.

	== Display/Video ==		== Display/Video ==

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 == Mouse ==
-Important note: the synaptics driver, which is detected by default does not give the acceleration setting to a attached mouse or the trackpoint. Please replace the section for the synaptics driver with the following one:
+Important note: the [[Synaptics TouchPad driver for X]], which is detected by default, does not give the acceleration setting to a attached mouse or the trackpoint. Please replace the section for the synaptics driver with the following one:
 <code>

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 Is supported by the thinkfinger package. Gnome and KDM (kde login manager) seem to be working quite well, KDE is not fully supported yet.
-Install thinkfiner package and edit ''/etc/pam.d/system-auth'' and add the ''pam_thinkfinger.so'' module right before ''pam_unix.so''. So your ''system-auth'' should start like this:
+See "[[How to enable the fingerprint reader with ThinkFinger]]" for configuration information and tips.
 You probably want to enroll the ''root'' account so you can just ''su'' to the superuser without entering the root password.

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 Is fully working now. Muting is working and unmuting with the volume keys as well. If you are using KDE then you have to choose "Threaded Open Sound System" as audio system in the control center. I could not use PulseAudio (make sure you do not install kde-settings-pulseaudio or pulseaudio). With PulseAudio the sound was always delayed and the cpu usage was very high.
-The volume keys are only standard keys now with the keycodes 174 and 176. So you have to assign them to mixer control actions. For that KDE needs a keysymname to be able to assign it in its mixer controls. So you can add following lines to the file /etc/X11/Xmodmap:
+The volume keys are only standard keys with the keycodes 174 and 176. So you have to assign them to mixer control actions. For that KDE needs a keysymname to be able to assign it in its mixer controls. So you can add following lines to the file /etc/X11/Xmodmap:
 <code>
      keycode 174 = 0xffd2

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 The last options is provided by following packages: kmod-nvidia, xorg-x11-drv-nvidia.
 To enable full support of your display add vga=893 as bootloader option for your kernel.
 == Mouse ==
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 To get further button support of more than three buttons of your super mouse you should have a look at following software:
 [http://www.ollisalonen.com/btnx http://www.ollisalonen.com/btnx]
 == Audio ==