Installation instructions for the ThinkPad R51e

I have an IBM ThinkPad R51E, and I have installed Debian Sarge on it.

Just run the cd-rom of installation, boot it and press FN + F7.

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Running SuSE 10.2 (net upgrade from a 10.1 DVD install) on a R51e, machine model 1843.

• Get openSUSE-10.2-GM-i386-mini.iso

• Under Windows: Multimedia Center for Think Offerings > RecordNow Data > Copy > Burn Image
• find the IP address of the installation repository and directory on server
• Boot from CD, select HTTP install, enter server IP and directory eg, /pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss

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Video

fglrx ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series with Xorg 7.x

• Get ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run

• # ./ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE102-IA32

• # rpm -Uvh fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE102-8.33.6-1.i386.rpm

 [...]   1:fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE102    ########################################## [100%]
 /usr/src/kernel-modules/fglrx /
 make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34-obj/i386/default'
 [...]  INSTALL /usr/src/kernel-modules/fglrx/fglrx.ko
        DEPMOD  2.6.18.2-34-default
 Please read "/usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/README.SuSE" for
 configuration details when using SaX2.

• Configure with # sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx

• if $ fglrxinfo

 display: :0.0 screen: 0
 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org 
 OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect 
 OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.1)

then as per Problems_with_fglrx,

 # mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri
 # ln -s /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri

Hint:

Invoke # fglrx-kernel-build.sh after each kernel upgrade/change.

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madwifi for Atheros 11a/b/g Wireless LAN Mini PCI

Hint:

Add http://madwifi.org/suse/10.2 to YaST2 Installation Sources for Atheros drivers for default SuSE kernel.

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Sound

$ lspci

[...] 00:14.5 Multimedia audio controller: ATI Technologies Inc IXP SB400 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 02)

$ lsmod

[...] snd_ac97_codec 95648 1 snd_atiixp

amongst other modules.

NOTE!

If Headphone Sense or Line Jack Sense are unmuted audio is dead. This can cause considerable grief.