Problems with ThinkPad T410

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Just bought a Thinkpad T410 and tested it with openSUSE 11.3 M6 running KDE4 LiveCD

To benefit those thinking of getting a T410

  • wireless (Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300) works with WPA2
  • brightness button works
  • volume and mute button works
  • touchpad can control mouse movements only
  • thinklight working

Things that I can’t get it to work and needs help

  • cannot tap on touchpad and use it as mouseclicks
  • cannot off bluetooth (either off or on both wifi & blue together)
  • cannot get it to sleep when closing the laptop lid
  • and others :frowning:

Hope to get the above “problems” working so I can install openSUSE 11.3

Thanks in advance for any advise.

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You do know, 11.3 M6 is a development release? If you want to use the laptop for other than testing, I suggest you download and install the 11.2 release.

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I am going to… move it to our Pre-Release/Beta sub-forum area.

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This thread has now been moved from the “Laptop” subforum area to the “Pre-Release/Beta” subforum area. The thread is now open again for all (including NNTP users) to post. Thankyou for your patience.

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My recollection is Blue tooth is not well implemented in Linux and indeed true for openSUSE.

There is a link here that may help: Bluetooth Daughter Card (14 pins) - ThinkWiki

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Yes, do understand that 11.3 M6 is a development release. Hoping that it has the latest stuff and therefore higher chance of getting the laptop to work.

Will re-download 11.2 LiveCD as advise and retry.
Re-post the status onto the laptop forum by then.

Thanks.

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I think 11.2 is a waste of your time. Your ThinkPad T410 has Intel HD_Graphics. I note this:
Intel HD Graphics - ThinkWiki

A very recent Linux distribution with kernel 2.6.33 and Intel Xorg driver 2.10 or newer is recommended.
openSUSE-11.2 has the 2.6.31 and only 2.9.0 of Intel Xorg driver. ie. you WILL have PROBLEMS with 11.2. I would not waste your bandwidth nor time.

Stick with11.3 which has the 2.6.34 and Intel Xorg driver 2.11.

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oldcpu, thanks for the advise.

The thinkpad T410 that I had bought comes with the Nvidia 3100M 256MB DDR3 Graphics Card, which should work after installing the propriety drivers

The only problem with openSUSE-11.2 is that I’m not sure whether the wireless Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 is supported.

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linlap is a good site.

I note thinkwiki has this to say re: the nVidia 3100M: NVIDIA Quadro NVS 3100M - ThinkWiki

Works with Nouveau git or a recent kernel with this patch respectively. (This fixes the problem, where the driver falsely disabled discrete graphic, which resulted in a black screen.) 2D is supported, while 3D support is under development.
Its possible 11.3’s nouveau has that patch … I don’t know. 11.2 may as you note, work with the proprietary nVidia driver.

linlap says the 6300 wireless will work.

Thinkwiki has this to say:
Intel Centrino Ultimate-N 6300 - ThinkWiki

You may need to find the 6300 firmware. If you do a search here: Software.openSUSE.org for “iwl” you will see firmware for the 6000 series. That may be useful for your 6300.

You probably should post in our wireless section asking for help as I know next to nothing about wireless: Wireless - openSUSE Forums

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Hi,

“- cannot tap on touchpad and use it as mouseclicks”

install synaptiks, reboot.