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== Power Management == | == Power Management == | ||
Suspend to RAM works out of the box. Note that I neither tested the default Switchable graphics BIOS setting nor Suspend to Disk. | Suspend to RAM works out of the box. Note that I neither tested the default Switchable graphics BIOS setting nor Suspend to Disk. | ||
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| + | The LCD brightness buttons do actually work, however, there is no on-screen display feedback. | ||
Latest revision as of 22:33, 20 August 2013
Model
Lenovo Thinkpad T500 2056-Y4R, BIOS 6FET92WW (3.22), ECP 7VHT16WW (1.06)
General
This installation instruction describes these parts that do not or do not completely work after my OpenSUSE 12.3 DVD installation using KDE 4 as window manager. If anything does not work as expected, please have a look at the older Installation of OpenSUSE 12.1 on a ThinkPad T500 for possible workarounds that I forgot to mention here. However, almost everything seems to work fine.
Graphics
Since the default BIOS settings Switchable Graphics caused high power consumption in the past, I changed the BIOS settings from Switchable to Internal graphics before installation. Please read Switchable Graphics for the pros and cons. Note that I did not test the ATI graphics.
# mkinitrd in order to prevent loading of unnecessary modules.Power Management
Suspend to RAM works out of the box. Note that I neither tested the default Switchable graphics BIOS setting nor Suspend to Disk.
LCD Brightness Buttons
The LCD brightness buttons do actually work, however, there is no on-screen display feedback.
