Installing Fedora 14 on a ThinkPad T510
NOTE!
This is based on the Gnome 64 bit live CD version of Fedora 14. Your experience with KDE or XFCE may be different. While this page is still very raw, i do invite t510 fedora users to edit and fill it up
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Success Chart - Out of the box experience
Item | Working | Notes | |
Installation | Local CD/DVD install | yes | |
Network Installation | unknown | ||
USB Installation | yes | ||
Video | NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M and 15.6" TFT display with 1600x900(HD+) | yes | The setup automatically installs the nouveau driver correctly, however if you want 3D acceleration you may install proprietary nvidia driver (described below) |
VGA | yes | ||
Power Management | Software Suspend (hibernate) | yes | |
Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) | yes | ||
Audio | yes | ||
Wireless | WiFi - Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 | yes | |
Bluetooth | yes | It´s always turned on after booting (workaround needed) | |
Qualcomm_Gobi_2000 WWAN modem | partial | works perfectly when firmware is correctly loaded (Gobiloader will not work on Fedora 14) | |
Input | Keyboard | yes | |
UltraNav (TrackPoint / Touchpad combo) | yes | ||
Extra keys | partial | see ThinkPad Extra keys section below | |
Fingerprint reader | yes | ||
Ports | Ethernet | yes | |
Modem | unknown | ||
Serial | unknown | ||
ExpressCard slot | unknown | ||
PS/2 Keyboard/Mouse | unknown | Requires dock. I do not have a doc. Maybe someone with it can test and edit this page | |
Parallel | unknown | ||
USB | yes | ||
ESATA Port | yes | ||
Firewire Port | unknown | ||
PCMCIA/Cardbus | yes | ||
[Multicard reader 5-in-1 (MMC, MS, MS Pro, SD, SDHC)] | yes | 4GB SanDisk MicroSDHC detected. | |
2.0MP webcamera | yes | Tested with Cheese and Skype. Works perfectly. | |
Harddisk Active Protection | no | There is now a hdapsd rpm, but it is not installed by default, and neither is the hdaps kernel module getting automatically loaded. And even after install it is not started automatically. Tried it manually (modprobe hdaps) but seems the module is not there in the kernel. | |
TPM (security subsystem) | unknown | ||
Dock removal | unknown |
Tested and Verified on Fedora 14
Information in this section has been tested and verified using Fedora 14 64bit.
Installation
Updating
Configuration
Kernel
WiFi
ThinkPad Extra keys
ThinkPad keys are handled by a mixture of the thinkpad_acpi, acpi button and acpi dock drivers.
Key | Function | Handled by | Event | Works | Notes |
FnF2 | Lock the computer | - | unknown | yes | |
FnF3 | Select Power Plan | - | unknown | unknown | |
FnF4 | Put Computer to sleep/standby mode | - | unknown | yes | |
FnF5 | wireless | - | unknown | unknown | |
FnF6 | Change camera/audio settings | - | unknown | unknown | |
FnF7 | Switch Display output location | - | unknown | unknown | |
FnF8 | Change ultranav device settings | - | unknown | partial | Allows to turn on/off trackpad |
FnF12 | Put computer in hibernation mode | - | unknown | unknown | |
FnHome | brightness up | - | unknown | yes | |
FnEnd | brightness down | - | unknown | yes | |
FnPgUp | thinklight | - | unknown | yes | |
FnSpace | zoom | - | unknown | unknown | |
FnPrtSc | Have the same function as the SysRq key. | - | unknown | unknown | |
FnScrLk | Enable or disable the numeric keypad. | - | unknown | yes | |
FnPause | Have the same function as the Break key. | - | unknown | unknown | |
ThinkVantage | Vendor key | - | unknown | unknown | |
VolumeUp | Volume Up | - | unknown | yes | |
VolumeDown | Volume Down | - | unknown | yes | |
VolumeMute | Volume Mute | - | unknown | yes | |
MicMute | Microphone Mute | - | unknown | no | |
NextTab | Browser Next tab | - | unknown | yes | |
PreviousTab | Browser Previous tab | - | unknown | yes | |
Power | Power button | - | unknown | yes | |
Lid | Lid button | - | unknown | yes |