4 June 2009 by Lars

Installing OpenSUSE 11.1 on Lenovo X200 Tablet

Used network boot to get into the installer (no DVD with the X200, hit F12 at bootup)
Booted just fine, went fine until the partitioner kicked in
Allowed me to shrink the NTFS Vista partition, but…
… couldn’t work with the resulting partition
Rebooted several times, ended up deleting the new extended partition, rebooting, then creating all from scratch again. Not certain what went wrong there
Configured a default KDE 3.5 desktop, installation (from local repository) took about 20 minutes.
Rebooted, with the following result:
- Screen set up at 60Hz/1280×800
- Mouse works
- Sound works, including hardware buttons
- Brightness buttons work, but no OSD
- Touchscreen does NOT work out of the box – but I chose automatic configuration, may be related.
- Wireless works (although openSUSE still uses the braindead (KDE) network manager – the Ubuntu (Gnome) version is much more user friendly)
I’ll post on further progress..