After 2 days installing gentoo on my great T60 I’ve accomplished quite a lot so far:
- WiFi works. 4 seperate components (userland, firmware, kernel module and yet another kernel module) increase complexity a bit. Although the fifth component caused trouble — I forgot to tweak
conf.d/net - Radeon X1400 and video card worked almost directly after using
aticonf— nice! When I upgraded toxorg-server-1.1, though, I got a few crashes when closing X in a not-so-nice manner. - Using the
synapticsdrivers my touchpad now support drag’n’drop, right and middle mouse click and scrolling emulation. Still got to find a way to bind the thinkpad shortcut to disable/enable the point or pad. - Finally got the DVD rewriter to work. It seems I overlooked one little stupid generic E-IDE option in the kernel config.
- Bluetooth and infrared should work — haven’t got the gadgets to try them out
- Never even saw a PCCard, so didn’t even bother to look into ti
- Software suspend (hibernation) doens’t work yet, but I definitely be working on that.
I know, this entry is quite old. But do you still have a kernel config for the T60? I have also an old T60 an wanted to build a “Linux from Scratch” system and optimize the kernel for it. But I can’t find out all config options.
Sorry, I don’t have it anymore. I do have the kernel config of the x61s I owned: https://w-nz.com/~bas/x61s/config