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Posted 12-14-2008 at 06:03 PM by zsejk

The ones I find most helpful:

http://pi-ist-genau-3.de/?page_id=344

http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X61s

http://blog.affien.com/archives/2008/03/06/x61s-1/

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Alright. Typing this to you from the Gentoo setup.

Kernel is 2.6.26-gentoo-r4, Gnome is working (iffy font stuffs though), sound is not. Wireless is sorta sometimes working, but mostly it craps out a lot after initial startup.

Google search results for this topic scares me a little though, so I will try to post some links to pages that *do* actually provide help, instead of just babbling on about the lackluster Linux talents of the writer...

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Gentoo on the Thinkpad x61s - Progress

Posted 12-13-2008 at 02:46 PM by zsejk

So, I've made some progress with the Gentoo idea. The basic install went pretty well, following the installation book by Gentoo. After that of course I got in the circular blocking hell, so now I'm running *with* e2fsprogs and -libs, but without ss and com_err. Quite unsure what those do, so I will have to research that soon.

Got wireless working by emerging wpa_supplicant and iwl4965-ucode, just like this friendly guy suggests:

http://www.robertspahr.com/text/x61s.php...

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Gentoo on the Thinkpad x61s

Posted 12-04-2008 at 04:16 AM by zsejk
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To immediately start putting my money where my mouth is, Gentoo will be put on my Thinkpad x61s (currently running Windows Vista Business 64-bit). I tried it before with some luck, but not a lot, as wireless and sound worked, but emerge crapped out after one too many builds. So in order to prevent this...

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[EDIT: before I forget again, to facilitate .mkv: add matroska to USE flags when emerging media players; not needed for mplayer, has it by...

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Posted 12-04-2008 at 01:46 AM by zsejk
Updated 12-04-2008 at 01:51 AM by zsejk

Ah, this is what I missed for all this time.... a sense of community! LQ has shown me the way again, after years of Windows slaving, it is time to return to the fold. I even got me very own blog now!

A brand new distro will be downloaded, and it will be installed.

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