Installing OpenSUSE 11.3 on a ThinkPad T410s
Contents
Model
Lenovo Thinkpad T410s 2912-W1C, BIOS 6UET36WW (1.14), ECP 6UHT28WW (1.09)
General
This installation instruction describes these parts that do not or do not completely work after my OpenSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7 DVD installation using KDE 4 as window manager.
Graphics
Enabling compositing crashes X due to a bug in the Intel 2010Q1 graphics package. Fixed packages are available [1].
Samsung SyncMaster 225bw (1680x1050) is unuseable when connected via DVI, probably due to an EDID-related bug (see the corresponding bug report).
Network
Because of bug [2], the laptop pattern must be installed manually using YaST. Then, YaST must be used to switch to NetworkManager instead of traditional ifup.
Wireless LAN
The Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 adapter works out of the box, if the kernel-firmware package is installed. In OpenSUSE 11.3 Milestone 7 the bug mentioned above [3] prevents that package to be installed automatically. To install it manually, use YaST or do (as root)
zypper in kernel-firmware
Note that your T410s might come with another adapter installed, so your mileage may vary.
Wireless WAN
The optional Wireless WAN (WWAN) adapter Qualcomm Gobi 2000 does not work out of the box. First, the current (2.6.34) qcserial kernel driver module does not support the 2000 version of the Qualcomm Gobi. Second, the application that uploads the firmware to the WWAN device is broken since kernel 2.6.32 [4]. Thus, you need kernel 2.6.35 or to backport the related patches manually [5].
TouchPad
The TouchPad is configured by the KDE system settings, e.g., the mouse clicks triggered by tapping. However, for enabling two-finger scrolling, some XInput properties must be set:
xinput set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Scrolling" 1 0 xinput set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Two-Finger Pressure" 30
TrackPoint
The TrackPoint can be used to perform scrolling, similar to Windows, by holding down the middle button and moving the TrackPoint. Horizontal scrolling is now enabled by default. The Opera browser moves forward and backward in its history instead, see here to fix it or disable horizontal scrolling completely by:
xinput set-prop "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint" "Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes" 8 -1 -1 4 5
Integrated Fingerprint Reader
The Integrated Fingerprint Reader is a UPEK TouchStrip (USB vendor ID 0x147e). But the driver is only included in the development version of libfprint. Since the current release 0.0.6 is provided by the distribution, the reader does not work.
