Installing OpenSUSE 10.2 on a ThinkPad X41 Tablet

Success Chart

Item		Working	Notes
Installation	Network Installation	Not Tested
	USB Installation	Yes (DVD)
Display	Laptop Screen	Yes	X.org i810 driver
	CRT / Projector	Yes
	Screen Rotation	Yes*	XRandR
	Stylus	Yes*	wacom serial driver.
Power Management	Suspend to Disk (hibernate)	Yes*	Software Suspend 2
	Suspend to RAM (ACPI sleep)	Yes*	Software Suspend 2
Audio		Yes	ALSA intel8x0 driver
Wireless	802.11b/g	Yes	ipw2200 drivers
	Bluetooth	Not Tested	See Bluetooth on Fedora Core 4
Card Slots	Cardbus	Yes	yenta_socket driver
	SD Card	Yes*	sdhci driver
Extra Buttons	Keyboard Section	Yes	ibm-acpi driver
	Tablet buttons	Yes*
Fingerprint Scanner		Not Tested
Harddisk Active Protection		Not Tested	hdapsd

* = Configuration Required

Installation

Installation is fairly simple, most features work out-of-the-box.

Configuration

(Instructions are for KDE)

Tablet Configuration

General tablet configuration is pretty simple.

• Open Sax2
  • First, go to the monitor section, we need to fix the screen size
    • Next to where it says "Monitor:", click the Change button
    • The auto-detected monitor is -->LCD / 1024X768@75HZ, which is fine
    • Go to the Display Size tab
      • Enter 248 for the X-Axis
      • Enter 186 for the Y-Axis
    • Click OK to close the Monitor Settings window
  • Now go to the Tablet section
    • Check Activate This Tablet
    • Select IBM / X41 TABLET PC (SERIAL)
  • Go to the Port and Mode tab
    • Set the port to COM-1 [/dev/ttyS0]
    • Select TCPButton >>> on
    • Select AlwaysCore
    • Select ForceDevice >>> ISDV4
    • Set the mode to Absolute
  • Go to the Electronic Pens tab
    • Check Add Pen
    • Click the Properties button
      • Select TCPButton >>> on
      • Select AlwaysCore
      • Select ForceDevice >>> ISDV4
      • Set the mode to Absolute
  • Save