Running Slackware Linux on Thinkpad T61

Known Issues of Linux on ThinkPad T61

Author: Cherife Li

If there are any solution to the following issues, please let me know, thanks.

Framebuffer

Currently, AFAIK, vesafb doesn't support 1680×1050 mode currently, neither does intelfb.
For more information about VESA, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VESA_BIOS, or Google.
There's a project named vesa-tng, by which, someone said, can manage this mode and other ones. But I haven't tried.

Wlan Led

Currently, the Wlan led never lights on with iwl3945 driver in kernel 2.6.25. This bug is confirmed by some people.
There seems to be some solutions:
http://intellinuxwireless.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1209
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/rchatre/iwlwifi-2.6.git;a=commit;h=ec2ce7fc7890b37d564a274513d8d99ed4edb9ac

Use kernel 2.6.26 and above.

UDF v2.5

Currently, the UDF in Linux Kernel(2.6.25.4) couldn't mount blu-ray or PS3 disks with UDF v2.5, there is a patch solved this problem.

_Newer kernel has fixed this problem. I don't know since which version though, maybe 2.6.26._

Hotkeys

Currently, the volume keys, brightness keys won't work.

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