Great Post Kevin! You need to start a Linux Tech BLOG? On Sat, Sep 3, 2011 at 1:22 AM, KevinO wrote: > My new Thinkpad came Friday morning: A T520, quad Core i7, 8GB RAM, 15.6 > inch > screen, built in WiFi, 3G, Bluetooth, etc.. > > After burning 4 DVDs to create a boot and restore disks for the Win7 Pro > and > other software that came pre-installed, I shrank the main Windows partition > down, > leaving a couple hundred GB of free space for a Linux install. > > I decided it was finally time to give Mageia 1 a try. I burnt a DVD from > the x64 > iso and proceeded to install. I chose Gnome over KDE, this time, because of > the > modestly smaller footprint. (I'm comfortable with both) > > With no CLI tweaking at all, I got everything to work... and I mean > _everything_. > > Sound and video worked immediately. WiFi worked once I was online and the > system > could fetch the correct driver. (No NDISwrapper wanted nor needed here) > > All of the special buttons work. The WiFi toggle button, the volume > buttons, mute > button, sleep mode button. I fired up Firefox and browsed using WiFi to my > music > server. Selecting an album to play, I found that the buttons to pause, skip > tracks forwards and backwards, and stop, all worked correctly with the > default > movie player. > > Making the Bluetooth mouse work required merely using Gnome's Bluetooth > config > tool and pairing the devices. Poof! The mouse was working too. No hand > editing of > Xorg.conf! > > CPU speed-stepping works. Sleep mode kicks in if I either close the lid or > press > the sleep button, and comes back up correctly later. Pressing the lock > button > locks the screen, causing the usual login prompt to appear. Scrolling works > in > both axis if I slide my finger along the edge of the track pad. > > I've done a lot of Linux installs, but I've never seen this much hardware > work > right-out-of-the-box on any machine, let alone a laptop. The Win7 side > couldn't > see the Bluetooth mouse without the driver CD, but Mageia 1 had it covered. > Amazing. > > Tis truly a sweet machine with a very sweet Linux install. > > Long Live Urpmi! > -- > KevinO > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- (602) 791-8002 Android (623) 239-3392 Skype (623) 688-3392 Google Voice ** HomeSmartInternational.com