Installation instructions for the ThinkPad R51e

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I have an IBM ThinkPad R51E, and I have installed Debian Sarge on it.

Just run the cd-rom of installation, boot it and press FN + F7.

Henceforth, you are on your own !!!



Running SuSE 10.2 (net upgrade from a 10.1 DVD install) on a R51e, machine model 1843.

  • Get openSUSE-10.2-GM-i386-mini.iso
  • Under Windows: Multimedia Center for Think Offerings > RecordNow Data > Copy > Burn Image
  • find the IP address of the installation repository and directory on server
  • Boot from CD, select HTTP install, enter server IP and directory eg, /pub/opensuse/distribution/10.2/repo/oss

fglrx ATI RADEON XPRESS 200M Series with Xorg 7.x

  • # ./ati-driver-installer-8.33.6-x86.x86_64.run --buildpkg SuSE/SUSE102-IA32
  • # rpm -Uvh fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE102-8.33.6-1.i386.rpm
 [...]   1:fglrx_7_1_0_SUSE102    ########################################## [100%]
 /usr/src/kernel-modules/fglrx /
 make: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-2.6.18.2-34-obj/i386/default'
 [...]  INSTALL /usr/src/kernel-modules/fglrx/fglrx.ko
        DEPMOD  2.6.18.2-34-default
 Please read "/usr/share/doc/packages/fglrx/README.SuSE" for
 configuration details when using SaX2.
  • # sax2 -r -m 0=fglrx
  • if
 $ fglrxinfo
 display: :0.0 screen: 0
 OpenGL vendor string: Mesa project: www.mesa3d.org 
 OpenGL renderer string: Mesa GLX Indirect 
 OpenGL version string: 1.2 (1.5 Mesa 6.4.1)
 then as per Problems_with_fglrx,
 # mkdir -p /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri
 # ln -s /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/dri

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