Installing openSUSE 11.1 on a ThinkPad T500
Model specifics
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
- KDE
Observations out of the box
- Audio, video, networking (wired and wireless) work fine.
- Volume up and down work; mute doesn't.
- 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...
- Thinklight control works.
- WLAN/BT/OFF toggle (Fn+F5 and mechanical switch) works.
- Power management (suspend and hibernate) works when initiated from the KDE applet.