Installing Debian Lenny on Lenovo X61s My old DELL D410 laptop reached the end of its life and I started to look for some appropriate replacement. DELL is great for its world wide service. You just pick the phone, call a technician, explain the problem and the next day there is a specialist ready to fix the problem knocking on your door. What is not so great on DELL is their Linux support, they somehow support servers but Linux on laptops is not supported at all.

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No matter how expensive X300 is, it is hard to get to one. I completely failed to find a shop in Prague, where I could play with one (I'm speaking about April and May 2008). At the end of May I decided to give it up and start searching in more distant places.

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Finally, I found in Brno. I was very surprised how I was treated by them. They borrowed me X300 for one week, I also got permission to install Linux over pre-installed MS Vista it came with. I'm sure they do not lend X300 to everyone who asks, but still it was great.

We spend a lot of money on the DELL hardware, our server platform is almost uniquely based on the DELL servers, but as far as I know they never lend us a hardware to test before buying it. I really appreciate the service I received from. Why I'm writing about installing Debian on X61s and not on X300? Because of the display.

My eyes are not excellent but also not bad, I'm wearing light glasses - only 0.25 dioptres per eye. The display on X300 have resolution 1400x900 it's perfectly sharp, has a good contrast, but everything is so small on it. I had difficulties when reading wrongly coded web pages with fixed sizes hard coded in pixels. Now with improved zooming in Firefox 3.0 I might be able to use X300, but there are still too many other applications which use bitmap fonts and where it is hard to zoom text. I also do not like wide screen, who is going to watch DVD on laptop? Wide screen display only made the laptop 5cm wider.

X61s offers resolution 1024x768 I'm used to, it has the same physical dimensions of the display as my old D410 but within thinner frame. SSD drive would be very nice, but I could wait year/two until they get cheaper. That is why I decided for X61s over X300. Content • • • • •, • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • My laptop configuration Model Lenovo X61s 7669-3KG CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo @ 1.60GHz (L7500) RAM: 4GB; under 32bit kernel are visible only 3GB, installing amd64 kernel fixes the problem but breaks hibernation HDD: 160GB spinning at 5400rpm (HITACHI HTS542516K9SA00); it's silent and deliver decent speed. Graphics: Intel X3100 + 12.1' TFT display with 1024x768 resolution Network card: Intel Gigabit Ethernet Wireless: Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN Other HW: AD1984 HD Audio, Fingerprint Reader, SD/HSCD card reader, CardBus slot, FireWire, Analog modem Basic installation I did the basic installation from the Debian Etch installation disk using an external USB DVD-ROM drive (the laptop can have DVD-ROM installed in the docking station which I do not own). After booting into the new system I have replaced distribution code name 'etch' by 'lenny' in /etc/apt/source.list and executed commands `apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade` to upgrade to Debian Lenny (at the time of writing in the testing state).

I decided for upgrade, because much needed software, especially the X.org driver for the Intel X3100 video card is missing in Debian Etch. Because I was planning to do final configuration during my business trip to Berlin, I downloaded all 5 Debian Lenny DVDs to save my bandwidth on the trip.