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Fedora 15 adds ThinkPad x220 touchpad toggle.

By Paul Frields 10th Sep 2011 8th May 2022 4

I was really happy to see that the latest round of Fedora 15 updates brought something for which I’ve been yearning. On my new ThinkPad x220, the Fn+F8 toggle for turning off the touchpad now works. YAY! My right palm often hits the touchpad when I’m typing, causing the mouse …

Fedora 15 rocks on ThinkPad.

By Paul Frields 21st Jun 2011 8th May 2022 8

On Friday my new Lenovo ThinkPad x220 arrived and of course in the evening after I finished work, I was jonesing to put Fedora 15 on it. The machine is a type 4286CTO (Smolt info here). I started by booting into the BIOS and checking the options as shipped by …