Got my T61 in and up and running

T61 came in yesterday morning. I've got Fedora 7 64 running on it and it absolutely rips! The 4965n wireless intel card works great.

Fingerprinter reader, sound and and bluetooth are all working. I'm pretty impressed with the performance of the 2.4 proc, 7200 rpm drive and 4GB of ram. I kicked 25 simultaneous, avi files (Season 2 of Star Trek Enterprise) and it didn't miss a beat. 25 video streams spread across 4 desktops. For anyone complaining about the performance of their T61, giving Linux a look might be your ticket

 

I assume you have the nvidia card?

I also assume you were spinning the desktops around on a cube in beryl at the time.

Very impressive.

 

Nice, I have a Red Hat Ent 5 release I'd like to load, I'm sure it's going to smoke it.

 

Nope.... I have the X3100 card... I haven't turned Beryl/Compiz on as yet The performance with the nvidia card would at least be as good and probably a bit better. At some point, the hard drive will become the bottleneck. GridGI: RHEL5 should run very nicely on it. Are you going to run the i386 or x86_64 build? There are a few hacks that you should be aware of to get sound working and to get the most out of the display.

 

I'll start with x64, if I have issues I'll drop to 32-bit but I should be OK. I know, it's going to take some tweaking but it's ok, I'll just take it one step at a time.

 

Nice report; I haven't seen anyone else really talk about Fedora 7 and the T61. Did you report your results to fedoraforum.org?

Sound: did you have to download the latest alsa cvs and recompile to get it working?

Wireless: via native intel driver, or ndiswrapper?

Also, did you test suspend and suspend2disk? I've read those are kinda difficult to get working. Recovering from hibernation with still-functional network, things like that. Thanks!

 

Wireless via the native intel driver. I downloaded alsa and manually applied the need patch to the file needed file. If you decide to run x86_64 I can also supply you with the modified intel_drv xorg module that you'll need to get rid of some of the fuziness that's on the screen. I also didn't use the kernel that came with the fedora install so I can send you my .config file if you'd like too. I'lll work on suspend2disk tonight. I honestly haven't worked on those things because I never use them, but I'll get on it tonight when I get off work.

 

The procedure for getting the 4965 card working under fedora is here

http://forums.fedoraforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=159550