you need to get this software:
http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/
for your thinkpad buttons to display on-screen. There also is an xosd
library dependency. Works great and it's easily configured using the
tpbrc configuration file.
On Mon, 2004-07-05 at 00:39, Eben King wrote:
> I got really sick of XP, and I got that nifty DVD from Novell with SuSE
> 9.1 on it, so I went ahead, shrunk XP's partition, repartitioned the HD,
> and put SuSE Linux on there.
>
> So far, what doesn't work are hibernation (ignores Fn-F12), tapping on the
> touchpad (but I usually turn that off anyhow... I do it too often by
> accident) and the on-screen display (the volume / brightness / ThinkLight
> keys work, but no OSD accompanies them). What might work are the modem
> (maybe, haven't tried) and suspension (kb locked up last time). What
> surprisingly works are the 802.11b mini-PCI NIC (I had to compile a driver
> for it, but it was easy once I got a custom kernel going), and the sound.
>
> I expect the list of "don't work"s to shrink. Also, I'm figuring out KDE
> and SuSE (first time on each), so I'll get better at them.
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