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Today something odd happened while I was upgrading my Debian distribution, but what I wasn’t prepared on was the outcome that followed.
I just made a complete system upgrade, which resulted in a nonfunctional system, hooray!
I was running an unstable release from Debian, as back when I installed it, the stable version did’t work at all with my ThinkPad. There was simply way too much fixing to get it even somewhat workable.
So of course I goggled and the results that came up where all the same, that the unstable version at that time was the version you should go with if you had a brand new T60, as most things works right out of the install.
Except some minor issues like the fingerprint reader, the short keys, kernel with smp support, and the graphic card didn’t work as it should. It sounds like a lot, but believe me it’s not =P.
However I fixed all the problems, but after today’s upgrade everything I had set up vanished and I ended up with a system just like the one I had right after the install.
It turned out that the upgrade wasn’t to the next unstable release, instead it upgraded to the latest stable release, in which most things did work this time around.
However I had to spend a good one hour to reset and configure everything as I had it before and yes I did save the config files this time around.
Now this might have happened to you too, but I’m writing this post more for the ThinkPad users that haven’t fixed their problems yet.
There is a great site slash community that offers help to people that have problems with their Linux installation.
So if you haven’t visited it yet, and are sitting on a badly working Linux install on your ThinkPad, then hurry and visit Thinkwiki

Take me there!

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