This laptop is certified, and the first thing I learned to do before switching was build the kernel, which obviously I’ll be using Suse to do that.
I personally like the fact that Suse instills a different system than usual which is either less of a choice or the amount of effort you put into the system.
I hope to see a good future with it, and plan to have a chroot of Fedora also for whatever it is I decide to do, or decide to take on.
Thanks! It’s a great system, and the Laptop is Certified Compatible, and with effort towards configuration in specifics to fan-speed, performance, audio&video it becomes even better in performing and would seemingly be even more compatible in terms of hardware lifespan and everything in aspects of which Linux is openly advertised as.
Hi and welcome to the forums
Are you clear what you are doing? SUSE is an enterprise distribution for which you pay for support; openSUSE is a community edition for which you get support through these forums. Both are installed using essentially the same installer; thereafter there are significant differences between the applications you can run on them.
If you’re using openSUSE you don’t need to build the kernel. You can get a very recent kernel from the kernel stable repository :
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/stable/standard/
Just install it from packages and don’t waste your time on compiling/recompiling 
So far as I can see, the Thinkpad R61 series were produced between May 2007 and May 2009.
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo (Merom) 4MB L2-Cache FSB-800, 1.66, 1.83 GHz, 2.0 GHz, 2.2 GHz, 2.4 GHz
Graphic Chip: Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 or nVidia Quadro NVS 140m (128 MB).
Possible displays:
- 14,1" 1280x800 WXGA TFT
- 14,1" 1440x900 WXGA+ TFT
- 15" 1024x768 XGA TFT
- 15" 1400x1050 SXGA+ TFT
- 15,4" 1280x800 WXGA TFT
- 15,4" 1680x1050 WSXGA+ TFT
Disk: 2,5" S-ATA
- 60, 80, 100, 120 or 160GB
Any SATA-Disks/-SSDs with a maximum height of 9.5mm can be used.
[HR][/HR]Do not really know why a normal basic Leap 42.1 system could not be installed, with the following caveat:
- Depending on the disk capacity, the default Leap 42.1 partitioning of Btrfs/XFS may have to substituted by a single ext4 partition.
[HR][/HR]Choose your download (4.7GB DVD or Network) here: <https://software.opensuse.org/421/> – change the language bottom right below the “Sponsored by” frame.
IBM x60 being Utilized by OpenSUSE Tumbleweed;)
Not even the slightest problem, Speed demon!
SUSE has been bouncing around these drives since 9.2, every episode gets better and more suspenseful.
Just took a quick look into my archives: my 1st SUSE version was 8.1 “Professional” (Boxed).
Yes, upgrading to newer versions is quite an experience – mainly with respect to the graphics power need for the newer visual effects – which is why the hardware I used then was dropped off at our local recycling depot more than a few years ago.
And, for all the SUSE/openSUSE versions since version 8.1, I have never found it necessary to build an “own” kernel – despite my preference for AMD and ATI (non-Intel) hardware.
That’s great you’ve managed throughout those years:)
It’s a great time to find old hardware, this old IBM X60, i just love it.
**linux-lei1:/home/linuxbeastmaster #** lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 945GT Express
Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 943/940GML Expres
s Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML Express I
ntegrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family High Definition Audio Controlle
r (rev 02)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 1 (rev 02)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 2 (rev 02)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 3 (rev 02)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family PCI Express Port 4 (rev 02)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 0
2)
00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 0
2)
00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 0
2)
00:1d.3 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 0
2)
00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 02)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e2)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7-M Family) SATA Controller
[AHCI mode] (rev 02)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation NM10/ICH7 Family SMBus Controller (rev 02)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b4)
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 09)
15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 1
8)
16:00.0 RAID bus controller: VIA Technologies, Inc. VT6421 IDE/SATA Controller (rev 50)
Aside of Having to configure Xorg with DRI2 and older driver settings
when its playing a videro such as using XINE its actually one
of the ones thats the bare-minimum for the new-api of video-acceleration:
Like you can tell also the unless its specifically set for so itll
just take a immediate performance hit such as using a compositor except xcompmgr:
->: and the CPU they have a #modded #cpu for them which i think makes
them like 200mhz faster … …on the front-side bus of things its not like its
overclocking the cpu its overclocking it for the front-side-bus meaning the gpu gets more overall bandwidth: