Installing Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Tribe on a ThinkPad R61

Installing Ubuntu on a Thinkpad R61 There are many problems with installing Ubuntu on the R61 since it uses the latest hardware (mostly unsupported by linux at this point) First I chose to install Gutsy which includes the latest intel video drivers, xorg and the latest alsa as well. I chose to use the alternate install CDs (installing in text mode is less likely to fail) when I tried to install feisty I had to add the irqpoll switch at boot but there is no need in gutsy for this. Aside from this the install went pretty smoothly and I chose to keep the IBM/Windows bootloader so I wouldn't loose Rescue and recovery. Next step was getting video up to par. Video works fine out of the box using the vesa driver but i wasn't able to get beryl up on the vesa driver so I ventured and used the new intel opensource drivers. They work fine but have a little bug in gnome where the resolution is 1280x800 at the bottom of the screen but on the top it thinks it's 1024x768. The xorg.conf has the correct resolutions and the upper right corner is usable but gnome still believes the resolution is at 1024x768. The next step is getting the sound up and running. I used the latest patch for the AD1984 codec by Takashi and there is a small script which was put out for the T61 which enables the sound. After that the sound works great. I haven't tested the Mic yet but the speakers work. Wireless worked out of the box but there are still a few bugs in Gutsy regarding the keymanager and the wifi applet. This is the first post I am putting up so I am a bit lost on organizing and uploading screenshots and links. I will try to update and add all the missing info.