Installing Gentoo 2008.0 beta2 on a ThinkPad X41 Tablet

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Success Chart

Item Working Notes
Installation Gentoo Minimal CD Installation Yes
Other Installation Methods (LiveCD(DVD), etc...) Not tested Don't see why it shouldn't work though.
Display Laptop Screen Yes Brightness controls work fine.
CRT / Projector Yes Well, sort of working...see below.
Screen Rotation Yes
Stylus Yes
Power Management Software Suspend (hibernate) Not Tested Working on getting TuxOnIce-sources working.
Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) Yes See details below.
Battery Yes Charge/discharge thresholds, etc... working with smapi.
Audio Yes
Wireless 802.11b/g Yes
Bluetooth Not Tested Should work.
Infrared Not Tested Didn't bother..don't have anything to test it with anyhow.
Extra Buttons Keyboard Section Yes thinkpad-acpi driver
Tablet buttons Yes Using setkeycodes and xbindkeys.
Fingerprint Scanner Yes Using thinkfinger.
Harddisk Active Protection Not Tested Installed the smapi hdaps driver, just haven't actively tested it yet.
X4 Ultrabase dock Yes Docking/Undocking requires a bit of tweaking...see below