Installing OpenSUSE 11.4 on a ThinkPad T410s
Contents
Model
Lenovo Thinkpad T410s 2912-W1C, BIOS 6UET61WW (1.41), ECP 6UHT31WW (1.12)
General
This installation instruction describes these parts that do not or do not completely work after my OpenSUSE 11.4 DVD installation using KDE 4 as window manager. If anything does not work as expected, please have a look at the older Installation of OpenSUSE 11.3 on a ThinkPad T410s for possible workarounds that I forgot to mention here.
Network
Wireless WAN
The optional Wireless WAN (WWAN) adapter Qualcomm Gobi 2000 does not work out of the box. The application that uploads the firmware to the WWAN device is not included. There is a OBS home repository that contains the gobi_loader package [1] mentioned in the ThinkWiki article linked above.
Furthermore, there are some bugs that prevent WWAN modems from working, e.g., [2] [3] [4]
TouchPad
The TouchPad is configured by the KDE system settings. E.g., the mouse clicks triggered by tapping, enabling two-finger scrolling, or disabling the TouchPad when a mouse is connected. However, for enabling for palm detection, some XInput properties must be set:
xinput set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Palm Detection" 1 xinput set-prop "SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad" "Synaptics Palm Dimensions" 7 50
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 now works for me.
