Installing OPENSUSE 10.3 on a ThinkPad T61p - Revision history

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Experiences installing OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on a T61 as a dual boot system with Windows Vista.

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	Next I installed the Nvidia driver available from the Nvidia website.		Next I installed the Nvidia driver available from the Nvidia website.
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		+	another Laptop with 1920x1200 resolution:
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		+	No graphical login screen at all (just a blank screen) after installation because of a unusable xorg.conf. Pressing ctrl-alt-backspace did not work. Using (ctrl-)alt-F1 to go to first console has also no effect. How to get it run:
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		+	Boot into runlevel 3 (just type 3 at boot prompt of grub) and login as root. cd to /etc/X11. copy xorg.conf.install to xorg.conf. After that run startx to get a gui, open konqueror and go to http://opensuse-community.org/nvidia.ymp to install the nvidia driver. Final open a console and enter nvidia-xconfig to use the nvidia driver. After a restart of the X-server you can use the graphical login.

	<h1>Sound</h1>		<h1>Sound</h1>

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 <h1>Graphics card</h1>
-OpenSUSE 10.3 recognizes the Nvidia Quadro FX 570M card, but this gives a somewhat false feeling of safety. The installation of OpenSUSE completed without a glitch. At the end of the installation, OpenSUSE directs you to the graphical login screenm which resulted in a blank screen.
+OpenSUSE 10.3 recognizes the Nvidia Quadro FX 570M card, but this gives a somewhat false feeling of safety. The installation of OpenSUSE completed without a glitch. At the end of the installation, OpenSUSE directs you to the graphical login screen which resulted in a blank screen.
-Pressing ctrl-alt-backspace gets you out of the X11 server and shows a nice prompt. After spending some time searching for the problem I came up with the following: Check in the BIOS that under Display, the display to boot is set to "Thinkpad LCD" (mine was set to Analog(VGA) which tries to use an eternal screen). Afterwards I ran xorgconfig chosing the generic Nvidia driver.
+Pressing ctrl-alt-backspace gets you out of the X11 server and shows a nice prompt. After spending some time searching for the problem I came up with the following: Check in the BIOS that under Display, the display to boot is set to "Thinkpad LCD" (mine was set to Analog(VGA) which tries to use an eternal screen). Afterwards I ran xorgconfig and chose the generic Nvidia driver.
 Next I installed the Nvidia driver available from the Nvidia website.
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 <h1>Sound</h1>
 Download the latest alsa packages: alsa, alsa-utils, also-tools. At the time of this writing these were the 1.0.16 versions. Next run alsaconf.

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 Experiences installing OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on a T61 as a dual boot system with Windows Vista.
-<h1> Partitioning </h1>
+<h1> Partitioning and boot loader</h1>
 OpenSUSE suggested to shrink the windows partition to 60GB which was fine since I spend most of mytime in OpenSUSE. However, the linux partitions needed some changes from what was proposed as a default (everything under an extended partition) to ensure dual boot. After the windows partition, I chose:
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+<ul>
   <li>A primary partition of 100MB (Ext3) as /boot (check that "set partition to active" is flagged) to install GRUB </li>
   <li>An extended partition for the rest:
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+      <ul>
           <li>Partition for / </li>
           <li>Partition for /home </li>
-      </ol>
+      </ul>
   </li>
-</ol>
+</ul>

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	<h1> Partitioning </h1>		<h1> Partitioning </h1>
−	OpenSUSE suggested to shrink the windows partition to 60GB which was fine. However, the linux partitions needed some changes from what was proposed as a default:	+	OpenSUSE suggested to shrink the windows partition to 60GB which was fine since I spend most of mytime in OpenSUSE. However, the linux partitions needed some changes from what was proposed as a default (everything under an extended partition) to ensure dual boot. After the windows partition, I chose:
		+	<ol>
		+	<li>A primary partition of 100MB (Ext3) as /boot (check that "set partition to active" is flagged) to install GRUB </li>
		+	<li>An extended partition for the rest:
		+	<ol>
		+	<li>Partition for / </li>
		+	<li>Partition for /home </li>
		+	</ol>
		+	</li>
		+	</ol>

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	<h1> Partitioning </h1>		<h1> Partitioning </h1>
		+	OpenSUSE suggested to shrink the windows partition to 60GB which was fine. However, the linux partitions needed some changes from what was proposed as a default:

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	Experiences installing OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on a T61 as a dual boot system with Windows Vista.		Experiences installing OpenSUSE 10.3 x86_64 on a T61 as a dual boot system with Windows Vista.

	<h1> Partitioning </h1>		<h1> Partitioning </h1>

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		+	<h1> Partitioning </h1>