Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions (eWeek) [LWN.net]

Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions (eWeek)

Posted Feb 19, 2008 20:35 UTC (Tue) by leoc (subscriber, #39773)
In reply to: Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions (eWeek) by mattdm
Parent article: Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions (eWeek)

I don't know about what model they are selling, but my T61 (7659) works wonderfully under
Fedora 8.

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Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions (eWeek)

Posted Feb 20, 2008 5:04 UTC (Wed) by wtogami (subscriber, #32325) [Link]

My T41 (Radeon 7500) and T60 widescreen (Intel 950) both work wonderfully in Fedora too, with
fully open drivers.

Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions (eWeek)

Posted Feb 21, 2008 15:04 UTC (Thu) by SiliconSlick (subscriber, #39955) [Link]

I recently installed CentOS 5.1 on the bosses X60s and, for the most part, it just works (at
least well enough for him, which isn't always easy). 

However, CentOS didn't come with tp_smapi or the configure-trackpoint packages from
http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/ so I had to add those afterwards (along with an init script to
rebuild tp_smapi module on kernel upgrades).  The only thing not currently working is hard
disk parking via HDAPS due to the needed kernel patch (I'd prefer to stick with the latest
CentOS kernels for security updates and I won't necessarily have time to patch the kernel RPM
with the disk parking code each time an update is released).

http://ThinkWiki.org ROCKS!  Couldn't have accomplished the install in a timely manner without
them.

Lenovo Launches Linux Laptop and Leaves Lots of Questions (eWeek)

Posted Feb 21, 2008 15:10 UTC (Thu) by SiliconSlick (subscriber, #39955) [Link]

Oh yeah... (remembering one other item)...

I also snagged/rebuilt the thinkfinger RPM from Fedora Extras that wasn't included with
CentOS, but that was mostly trivial.