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 is a 32-bit processor, which is not supported by Arch Linux. Have a look at Arch Linux 32 instead.

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. 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 Network configuration/Wireless#iwlegacy.

Special Keys

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