Installing OpenSUSE 11 on a ThinkPad X41 Tablet

Success Chart

Item		Working	Notes
Installation	Network Installation	Not Tested
	USB Installation	Yes (DVD)	Edit the boot order first
Display	Laptop Screen	Yes
	CRT / Projector	Yes	Standard is clone
	Screen Rotation	Yes
	Stylus	Yes*
Power Management	Suspend to Disk (hibernate)	Yes
	Suspend to RAM (ACPI sleep)	Yes
Audio		Yes
Wireless	802.11b/g	Yes
	Bluetooth	Yes
SD/SDHC Card		Yes
Extra Buttons	Keyboard Section	Yes
	Tablet buttons	Yes*
Fingerprint Scanner		Not Tested	Device found
Harddisk Active Protection		Not Tested	hdapsd (?)

* = Configuration Required

Even the browser-keys work "out of the box" (tested with firefox 3.0). Great!

Tablet Buttons

Follow the Instructions on Tablet Hardware Buttons.

Wacom Stylus

You just have to activate the Tablet using Sax2 GUI. There is an information at the end of the Release Notes:

TabletPC Configuration: xsetwacom Parameters
Use the following xsetwacom Parameters now:
   *For normal orientation (0° rotation):
     xrandr -o 0 && xsetwacom set "Mouse[7]" RotateNONE
   *For 90° rotation (clockwise, portrait):
     xrandr -o 3 && xsetwacom set "Mouse[7]" Rotate CW
   *For 180° rotation (landscape):
     xrandr -o 2 && xsetwacom set "Mouse[7]" Rotate HALF
   *For 270° rotation (counterclockwise, portrait):
     xrandr -o 1 && xsetwacom set "Mouse[7]" Rotate CCW

In fact my 'device-adress' was "Mouse[5]".