Talk:Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T43p

2005-10-09T20:40:03Z

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can somebody tell me how to activate the dvd drive ?
since using the sata driver unter kernel 2.6 i can't use my dvd ...

You have to include the standard ide drivers, because dvd is ide

Can someone be a little more explicit on the process of upgrading to the 2.6 kernel once the base system is installed and running 2.4. which packages were required to install 2.6, what was the process, did you change just grub's menu.lst and fstab or anything else to sda? What did you change in the kernel config prior to compiling?
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This [http://linux.spiney.org/debian_gnu_linux_on_an_ibm_thinkpad_t43p_cdrw_dvdrw_multi_burner page] offers a nice explanation on how to make the DVD drive work using the SATA driver.

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September, 28, 2005

I have a new T43 with Debian and the 2.6.12 kernel.

I can't get sound to come out the speakers. Drivers appear to be loaded

Also, the system will resume but immediately upon resume, it locks up. It appears to be attempting to hybernate upon resume. I have the SATA patch for power management loaded.

Thanks!

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I also have problems with alsa on a Thinkpad T43p with 2.6.13 on Debian. The intel driver can not be loaded and returns fatal errors. -> Update: Everything is fine after using alsaconf, alsactl and setting the mixer back to the volume it was earlier on...

Talk:Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T43p

2005-10-08T21:26:59Z

212.254.28.113:

Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad T43p

2005-08-01T18:05:38Z

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This is how I installad Debian / Sarge on my new T43p.

==Installation==
I also got a new 100 GB HDS disk, so I swapped out the 60 GB model an plug in my new 100 GB.
When I booted the Sarge Installdisks with the 2.6 Kernel, Linux was not able to recognize the HD.

Then I booted with the old 2.4 Kernel, installed sarge, get a fresh kernel from kernel.org.
After compilation and replacing hda through sda, the T43p boot into 2.6.

==Hardware==
===CPU and frequency scaling===
First you have to activate ACPI and Speedsteep in your Kernel:

<pre>
CONFIG_ACPI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BOOT=y
CONFIG_ACPI_INTERPRETER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_AC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BATTERY=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BUTTON=y
CONFIG_ACPI_FAN=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PROCESSOR=y
CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=y
CONFIG_ACPI_IBM=y
CONFIG_ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR=0
CONFIG_ACPI_BUS=y
CONFIG_ACPI_EC=y
CONFIG_ACPI_POWER=y
CONFIG_ACPI_PCI=y
CONFIG_ACPI_SYSTEM=y
CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI=y
CONFIG_X86_ACPI_CPUFREQ_PROC_INTF=y

CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_ICH=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_LIB=y
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_RELAXED_CAP_CHECK=y
</pre>

apt-get install acpid powernowd

you can test your current cpu frequenc with the following comand:
echo `cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep "^cpu MHz" | cut -d":" -f2` MHZ

===Network===
Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
Works with the tg3 module

{{NOTE|With newer versions of the Kernel there is no tg3 module anymore :(

I read something about licencing issues and stuff and that because of these the Debian project removed that module from their release.

But there is still the painfull way to go:

Install that package: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/bcm5700-source, the kernel header files and the module-assistant. Start the module-assistant and run through that program (satisfying every compiling need) until it asks if you want to install the newly compiled module.

If everything worked,

modprobe bcm5700

and

ifup eth0 (or whatever your network is called)

See http://jriddell.org/thinkpad-r40e.html -> Network, for details.}}

===Bluetooth===
Nothing special here. Working without any problem.

===Sound===
Intel Corp. 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controlle<br>
With ALSA snd_intel8x0 working without any problem.

===Graphics Adapter===
ATI Technologies Inc M24 1T [FireGL M24 GL] (rev 80)

It is a [[ATI Mobility FireGL V3200]] with 128MB

I used the debian packages from [[http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html]] version 8.14.13-2
and followed the instructions on that page.

Nothing special here. (XFree 4.3.0.dfsg)

===Mouse===
I use one external USB Logitech Trackball and both internal, the Touchpad and the Trackpoint.
In my XF86Config-4 are 3 mice.

<pre>
Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Configured Mouse_II"
Driver "mouse"
Option "CorePointer"
Option "Device" "/dev/psaux"
Option "Protocol" "PS/2"
EndSection

Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Generic Mouse"
Driver "mouse"
Option "SendCoreEvents" "true"
Option "Device" "/dev/input/mice"
Option "Protocol" "ImPS/2"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection
</pre>

==Buttons==
{|
|ThinkLight
|Fn + PgUp
|Just worked (can also be toggled through ibm-acpi's /proc/acpi/ibm/light)
|-
|Display brightness up
|Fn + Home
|Just worked (no software necessary)
|-
|Display brightness down
|Fn + End
|Just worked (no software necessary)
|}

KDE Konfigurationtool for the Buttons:
apt-get install kmilo

==Various Information==
===lspci Output===

To have all the hardware show up with its proper name, I had to get a new pci.ids file from the [http://pciids.sourceforge.net/ Linux PCI ID Repostiory] and copy it to /usr/share/misc/pci.ids. I believe newer distributions and kernels won't need that file anymore. -- 2005-07-19 (kernel 2.6.12.2) still need it.
<pre>
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM/GMS/910GML Express Processor to DRAM Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/PM Express PCI Express Root Port (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.3 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03)
0000:00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev d3)
0000:00:1e.2 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Audio Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1e.3 Modem: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) AC'97 Modem Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801FBM (ICH6M) SATA Controller (rev 03)
0000:00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801FB/FBM/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03)
0000:01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc M24 1T [FireGL M24 GL] (rev 80)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5751M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 11)
0000:04:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev 8d)
0000:04:02.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation: Unknown device 4224 (rev 05)
</pre>

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