OpenSUSE 11 for a T61 - should I switch?

[Andreas Siegert]

Hi,

unfortunatley OpenSUSE 11 cam a few day stoo late.
So I have 10.3 on my T61 (nvidia). Works mostly fine apart from wmwave which
crashes the X server, but so what.

Has anyone on this list using a T61 switched from 10.3 to 11?
Is KVM finally getting to a comparable speed vs VMware?
Does the WLAN LED work?
Will the Nvidia (not nv) drivers work?
Any caveats?

thx
afx
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Hi Andreas,

On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Andreas Siegert <afxml@...> wrote:

> unfortunatley OpenSUSE 11 cam a few day stoo late.
> So I have 10.3 on my T61 (nvidia). Works mostly fine apart from wmwave which
> crashes the X server, but so what.
>
> Has anyone on this list using a T61 switched from 10.3 to 11?

Not switched, 11.0 was the first distro I installed on my new T61
(also using the nvidia GPU).

> Is KVM finally getting to a comparable speed vs VMware?

I haven't tried - I am happy with VirtualBox for my purposes.

> Does the WLAN LED work?

Hmm, it does not seem so. But the wireless works just fine.

> Will the Nvidia (not nv) drivers work?

Define "work". They install and 3D acceleration works. I have not done
exhaustive testing of how they cooperate with suspend to Disk/RAM. The
nv driver worked well for me, too. Both support dual-head (external
screens) as well.

> Any caveats?

I found the sound configuration a bit troublesome, removing Pulseaudio
and reverting to native ALSA solved this for me. Also getting Skype to
use the proper microphone too me a while to figure out.

Bye,
    LenZ
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[Andreas Siegert]

Moin Lenz,

Quoting Lenz Grimmer (lenz@...) on Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 02:51:19PM +0200:
> On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 9:23 AM, Andreas Siegert <afxml@...> wrote:
> > Has anyone on this list using a T61 switched from 10.3 to 11?
>
> Not switched, 11.0 was the first distro I installed on my new T61
> (also using the nvidia GPU).
Good.

> > Is KVM finally getting to a comparable speed vs VMware?
>
> I haven't tried - I am happy with VirtualBox for my purposes.
Doest it allow me to run 64bit VMs?

> > Does the WLAN LED work?
> Hmm, it does not seem so. But the wireless works just fine.
Just like on 10.3

> > Will the Nvidia (not nv) drivers work?
>
> Define "work". They install and 3D acceleration works. I have not done
> exhaustive testing of how they cooperate with suspend to Disk/RAM. The
> nv driver worked well for me, too. Both support dual-head (external
> screens) as well.
Suspend to Disk/RAM would be my key issue. Works nicely now with the
latest Nvidia drivers.
The nv driver on 10.3 is a PITA. The NVidia is silly when it comes to
dynamic changes of dual screen configs.

> > Any caveats?
>
> I found the sound configuration a bit troublesome, removing Pulseaudio
> and reverting to native ALSA solved this for me. Also getting Skype to
> use the proper microphone too me a while to figure out.

Ok, that shuld be easy.

thx
afx

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[John Jason Jordan-2]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 16:54:38 +0200
Andreas Siegert <afxml@...> dijo:

> > I haven't tried - I am happy with VirtualBox for my purposes.

> Doest it allow me to run 64bit VMs?

Not yet.
 
> > > Does the WLAN LED work?
> > Hmm, it does not seem so. But the wireless works just fine.

> Just like on 10.3

There was a thread on this list about how to get the LED working on a
T61. It works fine for me now. I am using Hardy x86_64, upgraded from
Gutsy x86_64.
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