[opensuse] Suspend resume ( hibernate ) not working with my new Thinkpad t61p

I have a new thinkpad t51p courtesy of my boss and installing suse 10.3
has been a nightmare so far. It was quite difficult to get a video
driver working (out of the box it hung and had to be hard booted into
single mode). Eventually I got sax to stop hanging the machine by
installing the nvidia binary drivers and running:
sax -r -m 0=nv
or
sax -r -m 0=nvidia

If you let the module default it will load some bull*** module and hang
the system solid!

I could create usable xorg.conf's this way but it took a LONG time to
get it so that it would display on my large external monitor. Even now
if I power the laptop up without the monitor connected I have to restart
x (which I assume reloads the driver) to get the external monitor to
work. Worse yet, I don't seem to have a tool to switch between monitors
(which I could bind to the laptop key).

The cd writer completly hangs. I haven't figured that out yet.

The fingerprint scanner cause the yast program that reads your
fingerprint to hang. If I run the tool in a shell I get:
Initializing... done.
tf-tool --acquire
Please swipe your finger (successful swipes 3/3, failed swipes: 2)... done.
Storing data (/tmp/test.bir)...Warning: usb_bulk_read expected to read
0x40 (read 0x2c bytes).
I can live without that I guess...

The most agrivating thing of all is that I cannot get it to suspend to
disk or ram with X started. From runlevel 3 it will suspend and resume,
however from runlevel 5 it hangs during resume after all the drivers
have been reloaded (ie it writes "done running thaw hooks" in the
pm-suspend.log). I have a program that takes me about 30 minutes to
get up and running properly and another 30 to shut down (old mvs system
in hercules emulator). It is important that suspend resume works so
that I don't have to waste 1 or 2 hours a day restarting it!

It seems the universe (or the linux one anyway) punishes the owners of
any new tech...
wcn

p.s. I have not been brave enough to try to bind my bluetooth to any
devices. I'll leave that for a time when my wine rack isn't so empty....
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