linux on a T60 -- no sound, no wireless and no external video

[jarod-ajLrJawYSntWk0Htik3J/w at public.gmane.org (Jarod Wilson)]

On May 11, 2009, at 5:42 PM, Ben Eisenbraun <bene-Gk2boCrsRs1AfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 05:32:27PM -0400, R. Luoma wrote:
>> For a while now, I have been trying to install a linux distribution
>> on a Levono T60
>
> I don't currently have a Thinkpad, but I was under the impression  
> that the
> ThinkWiki remains the best resource for linux on ThinkPads:
>
> http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T60
>
> There are quite a few "how to get distro X running on model Y"  
> howtos on
> that site, including a bunch for your T60.  See the "I" section at the
> bottom for the "Installation" links.
>
> My suspicion is that if you have tried the latest Ubuntu and Fedora,  
> and it
> doesn't work out of the box, you're probably going to have to get  
> dirty and
> muck about under the hood to get everything working.  With the  
> aggressive
> release cycles for those two distributions, I think they tend to  
> have the
> best hardware support.

The T60 is multiple generations old now, any recent distro *should*  
support all the hardware out of the box. Everything in my year-plus  
old T61, which isn't even the latest in the T series Just Works and  
has for ages.

--jarod