I'm also rebuilding my T60p in place (meaning I started half of it while chrooted, and have now switched over to the newer half...).

I've run into anew issue loading the dri drivers: AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __glXFindDRIScreen). Moving to the latest ati driver seemed to fix that (8.37.6-r1).

• ATI Linux drivers for debian has great information around how to configure X11 to work with the proprietary ati drivers.
• Fglrx - ThinkWiki is a good source for how this stuff all works with thinkpads...

Getting networking up and running on the T60p has been a mixed bag. On one hand, the wired connection was easy (expected). The wireless was at first REALLY flaky, then after some fiddling the connection at home (WEP) was functional, and as of now (when I'm finally posting this thing) it still doesn't work at work (LEAP).

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I have what I tried below, but I eventually dropped the attempt. The Lenovo modules hung up VMWare any time I tried to boot it that way, and while I could mount the NTFS partition used by WinXP R/W with the tools below, I could not easily get WinXP to look at the lion's share of the drive. (My fault, really - if I weren't so attached to other filesystem types, I could probably have made this work).

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Got a new T60 yay!, here's my brain dump on getting it to work with gentoo (2006.1).

See also (Updated as new parts are added):

• Part 2: NTFS
• Part 3: Networking
  

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