Installing Fedora 13 on a ThinkPad T510
NOTE!
Fedora 13 KDE 32 bit desktop LIVE cd was used. Your experience with GNOME may be different. While I 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 | ||
Display | Laptop Screen (15.6" TFT display with 1920x1080(FHD)) | yes | However nouveau driver has issues posted in bugzilla |
VGA | yes | ||
Power Management | Software Suspend (hibernate) | unknown | |
Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) | yes | ||
Audio | yes | ||
Wireless | WiFi - ThinkPad 11b/g/n Wireless LAN Mini-PCI Express Adapter II | yes | After compiling driver. see notes below |
Bluetooth | yes | It did detect my nokia e71 and i transferred some files from it. | |
Input | Keyboard | yes | |
(TrackPoint / Touchpad combo) | yes | ||
Extra keys | partial | see ThinkPad Extra keys section below | |
Fingerprint | no | Am still working on it. fprint seems not to recognize the device | |
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 | ||
Firewire_Port | unknown | ||
PCMCIA/Cardbus | yes | ||
[Multicard reader 5-in-1 (MMC, MS, MS Pro, SD, SDHC)] | yes | 2GB SanDisk Ultra II SD flash card automatically detected. | |
2.0MP webcamera | yes | Tested with 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 13
Information in this section has been tested and verified using Fedora 13.
Installation
Installation is straight forward; you can follow the generic Fedora install instructions. However as the default installation came with windows and drive was not partitioned, i had to manually resize the partitions. Using the fedora installation cd, when you reach the partition section, delete partition where windows was installed. Resize it. I gave windows a 50gb partition and the rest