Difference between revisions of "Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500"

Revision as of 00:33, 7 October 2009

Model 2242 with

P8400
Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD
WSXGA+ display
8G RAM
250G 5400rpm hard disk
Serial Ultrabay Slim DVD Multi III Drive (8x Dual Layer)
Intel WiFi Link 5100/5300 WLAN controller
ExpressCard/54 slot
Bluetooth
OpenSUSE 11.1 x86_64
Gnome
- Tried KDE first, but it was too flaky. Installed OK the first time, but then I hosed it up trying to get DVDs to work. Reinstalled from scratch and had invisible icons in the system tray. Reinstalled from scratch again and volume controls didn't work on sound....

Automatic configuration, enter the least amount of information possible for customization.

Audio, video, networking (wired and wireless) work fine.
Volume up and down and mute work.
DVD didn't have a region code set; starting xine in a console got various errors from libdvdread and a popup saying the DVD couldn't be read (corrupt or encrypted), even with libdvdcss from Videolan and replacments for xine/libxine1/etc. from Packman. Got regionset and set the region to 1. Restarted X and xine works now.
Fn+ combinations:
- F2 (lock) doesn't do anything.
- F3 (battery) doesn't do anything.
- F4 (suspend) doesn't do anything.
- F5 (toggle Bluetooth power) works
- F7 (toggle external monitor) doesn't do anything. (I don't have an external monitor attached, which might possibly have something to do with it.)
- F8 (toggle trackpoint/touchpad) doesn't do anything. (I have the touchpad disabled in the BIOS.)
- F9 (not sure what that's supposed to be) doesn't do anything.
- F12 (hibernate) doesn't do anything.
- PrtSc (SysRq) doesn't do anything.
- ScrLk (NumLk) works. Embedded numeric keypad works as expected when NumLk is on.
- Pause (Break) doesn't do anything.
- Home (increase LCD brightness) and End (decrease LCD brightness) work. There is no OSD showing the brightness level, however.
- PgUp (ThinkLight) works.
- Spacebar (magnify) doesn't do anything.
- Cursor keys (Previous Track/Stop/Play-Pause/Next Track) don't do anything
Power management (suspend and hibernate) works when initiated from the KDE applet.

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 ==Observations out of the box==
+Automatic configuration, enter the least amount of information possible for customization.
 *Audio, video, networking (wired and wireless) work fine.
-*Volume up and down work; mute doesn't.
+*Volume up and down and mute work.
-**Mute now works.  Not sure if I did something (I did go into YasST/Hardware/Keyboard Layout and change the Type to "IBM ThinkPad R60/T60/...."; I also went into the volume applet's Setting and played around with some of the shortcuts but didn't commit any changes) or if I just wasn't making good contact the first time.
+*DVD didn't have a region code set; starting xine in a console got various errors from libdvdread and a popup saying the DVD couldn't be read (corrupt or encrypted), even with libdvdcss from Videolan and replacments for xine/libxine1/etc. from Packman.  Got regionset and set the region to 1.  Restarted X and xine works now.
-*Kaffeine/xine seem to have trouble with DVDs (encrypted or corrupt DVD messags).  Packman and videolan are in the repositories list, before the stock openSUSE.org repositories...
 *Fn+ combinations:
 **F2 (lock) doesn't do anything.