Take a look here: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/ThinkWiki
linux knowledge from around the net about Thinkpads accumulates here, a very nice site. And you can log in and add your own information to be archived for future people in your situation. The T410s has Intel graphics: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T410s and there's documentation of Fedora and Suse installs, with few graphics problems: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installation_instructions_for_the_ThinkPad_T410s My general advice though - usually you're far better off going with a Fedora or Ubuntu style distro on laptops, the enterprise-based distributions update too slowly on the hardware driver front for portable computing needs. An immediate suggestion for your problem - go in in rescue mode, edit /etc/inittab, and change the default run level from 5 to 3. That way you can get in on console and tweak stuff, issuing a "startx" command to bring up the desktop at will instead of being forced into a buggy state right away. -- Alec Habig, University of Minnesota Duluth Physics Dept. [email protected] http://neutrino.d.umn.edu/~habig/
