Fedora 9 x86_64 on a Lenovo T61 (Heads up South American users)

[danielito]

Good evening dears members of this forum.

I've just installed fedora 9-x64_86 on a lenovo T61, and almost everything is working fine. I've chosen to make a fresh install, instead of an update, and If I had to pay special attention to a couple of things (like the network manager behaviour, or the livna repo, for example), I did it not because this things were wrong, but just because they were different.

Please know that I'm a newbie, that I'm using a truly power horse, and that still there are lots of things that I can't get to work properly, even on Fedora 8 (fingerprint reader and brightness control with Fn key, for example). I suppose that ciphermonk or any other of the members that know a lot more than I do, will probably give us a better report.

Anyway, the main reason of this thread is to give an advice for those who use a latin american keyboard layout. Do not choose it when you´re making a fresh install, because you won't be able to move along the different screens once the program loads. It seems that it's mixed with some other keyboard layout, and unless that you can recognize the characters that you're typing, you will get stuck on the users registration screen. Solution: Choose a spanish or an english keyboard layout instead, and change your configurations later from your hardware preferences menu, once you have everything up and running.

That's all, see you around, and as usual, I wish to thank once again all the efforts you guys are doing to keep things free and simple.

[xinix]

hey, i have freshly installed fedora 9 on my T61 too, and i noticed the middle scroll button stopped working; eagerly waiting for other linux-savvy members to post their reviews on Fedora 9 on T61~

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Intel Core 2 Duo T7300, 2.0 GHz, 2GB RAM
Intel X3100
Fedora 2.6.25

[danielito]

Update:

I didn't try to run compiz fusion or anything that needs direct rendering, because 1) I've heard that up today there are no NVidia drivers compatible with the Xorg released in F9. Even I don't have a NVidia card, my Intel X3100 is compatible to NVidia, so I guess is the same. And 2), there's a bug with Intel driver in Fedora 9 .

If I'm wrong, and someone has updated info, it's obviously welcome.

See you around.

[eellis]

Originally Posted by xinix

hey, i have freshly installed fedora 9 on my T61 too, and i noticed the middle scroll button stopped working; eagerly waiting for other linux-savvy members to post their reviews on Fedora 9 on T61~

Just upgraded to FC9 and very unfortunately, the red track button no longer scrolls. This is going to be sooooooo annoying (one of the reasons I buy thinkpads). I wish I had the technical expertise to fix this myself. The best I can do is post my xorg.conf which worked scrolling horizontally and vertically under FC8 (using the center button). If anyone can help... the T61 (thinkpad) users will all buy you a virtual beer

Lenovo T61
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7700 @ 2.40GHz
2.6.25.3-18.fc9.i686

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# Xorg configuration created by system-config-display

Section "ServerLayout"

# InputDevice "Synaptics" "CorePointer"
Identifier "single head configuration"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
InputDevice "Keyboard0" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Trackpoint" "CorePointer"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Keyboard0"
Driver "kbd"
Option "XkbModel" "pc105"
Option "XkbLayout" "us+inet"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Trackpoint"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ExplorerPS/2"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "off"
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelTimeOut" "200"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "TVOutput"
Option "Disable" "true"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "Videocard0"
Driver "intel"
Option "BiosHotKeys" "on"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "Screen0"
Device "Videocard0"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Viewport 0 0
Depth 24
EndSubSection
EndSection

[eellis]

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=443608 This seems to be what we're looking for. Glad someone is on it (very much appreciated)..

[eellis]

http://vbraun.name/cms/node/7
Valker gets 16 virgins in heaven for this. Add the following lines to the top of your /etc/X11/xorg.conf file (also using the settings from my above post).

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Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AutoAddDevices" "false"
EndSection