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# IBM ThinkPad X60s

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The IBM Thinkpad X60s is a small light laptop with a Core Duo or Core 2 Duo processor and Intel graphics. It has no internal optical drive. You can see the specs at ThinkWiki, a wonderful resource with additional information.

## Installation

First note that this laptop is available with two different processors.

- Core Duo

  This processor requires the i686 (32-bit) version of Arch Linux. The two RAM slots physically support 2x2GB=4GB RAM. However with a 32-bit kernel only up to ~3GB will be accessible. Unfortunately due to a chipset limitation, even compiling a kernel with the Physical Address Extension (PAE) option (CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G) [1][dead link 2014-12-30] will not allow access to more than 3GB.

- Core 2 Duo

  This processor can run the x86_64 (64-bit) version of Arch Linux, and this is recommended in this case. The full 4GB RAM will be available with the standard Arch x86_64 kernel.

A basic Arch Linux installation will do just fine for almost everything. Select the i686 or x86_64 version as indicated above. Install from a USB CD drive or a USB flash drive following the instructions in the Installation guide.

It is easiest to do the initial installation with a wired ethernet connection which you can set up in the installation menu. In the base install package selection you can install the packages required for the wireless networking

    [*] wireless-tools
    [*] iwlwifi-3945-ucode

## Graphics

See Intel graphics. The required driver is xf86-video-intel.

Tip: When adjusting the screen backlight with the keyboard, flickering might be encountered. This can be fixed with adding `acpi_backlight=native` to the kernel command options.

## Ethernet

Gigabit ethernet works out of the box with the e1000e kernel module.

## Wireless Networking

See Wireless network configuration#iwl3945.2C iwl4965 and iwl5000-series[broken link: invalid section].

## Special Keys

See http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_get_special_keys_to_work.

## Suspend

### With pm-utils

See the article on pm-utils. This works fine.

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