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Hello everybody,
The T60 can now be used in complete freedom now that the non-free VGA BIOS has been replaced by free graphics - libreboot now supports the T60.
The QXGA resolution (2056x1536) 15" version with intel graphics is probably the best free software laptop that one can assemble today.
I'm currently using one with QXGA resolution and it is great. It's a shame that most laptops have much worse screens considering that tablets and phones with high resolution screens are easy to find.
It's not in libreboot yet, but it will be soon.
However, it's possible to build a coreboot ROM for T60 that is deblobbed (with native graphics instead of VGA option ROM (VBIOS), and with non-free microcode updates removed (not included in ROM)).
It also has backlight support (Fn+Home and Fn+End).
The source code in question is still coreboot, but work on the next libreboot release is well underway, which will have these changes.
X60 is also improved: backlight controls! (Fn+Home and Fn+End)
See here for more details:
http://libreboot.org/howto.html#x60_native_notes
http://libreboot.org/howto.html#t60_native_notes
- these are for coreboot, but the changes there will be in next libreboot release, once deblobbing of latest coreboot git revisions is complete. stay tuned!
Sweeet!
Hugs and kisses!