On Tue January 8 2008 19:40:43 Jimmy Wu wrote: > A question for Thinkpad Debian users: > > I will be getting a Lenovo Thinkpad T61 in a few days, which will > become my primary computer for school/home etc. I want to run Debian > etch on it, but am relatively new to Debian and Linux (I started with > Ubuntu about 7 months ago). I have a few questions before I wipe > Vista off the laptop, specifically about the Thinkpad software that > comes preloaded. Does Debian provide similar support for stuff like > the "Client Security" that manages the fingerprint reader, and other > stuff the volume buttons, the Fn keys, the blue "ThinkVantage" button? > Also are there any glaring hardware issues I should be aware of? > > Thanks in advance for your help,
Check out thinkwiki.org. More info there than I can summarize. This email sent from a new Lenovo T61 with about 75% of the h/w currently configured and tested. I kept the recovery partition, shrank the Vista partition (needed for a game) and assigned most of the space to a mostly Lenny install with Sid xserver for nvidia. There are patches available to get sound working in 2.6.22 but I'll simply wait for 2.6.23. You may have difficulty getting some h/w to work in Etch. (Today's Sid nvidia-kernel-source has a bug and needs to be unbzip2'd and untarred before m-a can auto-install.) --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
