[opensuse] opensuse 11.1 on a Lenovo Thinkpad T61p

I posted here a week ago with several complaints about 11.1, some of
which were legitimate and others which were just "whines".

Whines:
-taskbar is hard to configure (I'll just get over myself on that)
-Some kde4 application settings (konsole tab button for instance) seem
to get lost between sessions.
-konqueror no longer has a picture view mode, (I installed google
picassa, which is quite nice).


Real problems:
-The kernel shipped with 11.1 locks up on this machine. No messages to
the console log nor anywhere else I looked. it locks up with the caps
lock and wifi leds flashing alternately. The only recourse is to power
cycle the machine. I dealt with this by downloading and installing
kernel 2.6.28-9, which is pretty new, but is very stable so far on this
machine. Note that I had to get nvidia drivers from their beta area for
this kernel, but that is also true of the 2.6.27 kernel shipped with 11.1.

-the machine will not suspend to ram or disk. Suspend to ram fails and
restarts right away. There is a log but nothing in it points to a
culprit. Suspend do disk seems to work, but resume just locks up with a
blank screen. Vt's are not available. I'll just get along without
this until it gets fixed. I would be happy to coordinate and test fixes
as they are available....

-Knetworkmanager simply does not work for wifi connections. My adapter
is an intel 4965. It works perfectly (with kernels 2.6.26,27,28) using
the traditional ifup/ifdown method when configured correctly. But
knetworkmanager will not connect or show any signs of progress when
connecting (you just see the green icon). It eventually prints this
message in the knetworkmanager log:

Dec 29 00:08:34 bilbo NetworkManager: <WARN>
wait_for_connection_expired(): Connection (2)
/org/freedesktop/NetworkManagerSettings/Connection/0 failedto activate
(timeout): (0) Connection was not provided by any settings service

I'll use ifup/down for now. I've no immediate plans to travel... I'll
also "me too" the bug for this.

-Like most people with 64 bit machines I eagerly await a 64 bit java
plugin for firefox. I'm currently running the 32 bit version of firefox
and the plugin. Most things work this way, but not my juniper sslvpn
connection. It gets segfaults in varous places, which I suspect is
related to not having the correct version of some lib somewhere... I
can also use vpnc for my vpn and it connects nicely and is reliable.

Hopefully other Thinkpad owners will find this useful.

wcn


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