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Installing Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Tribe 3 on a ThinkPad T61

2007-06-30T14:52:00Z

Aboutblank: /* Intel: */

===Opening Notes:===

1) This is written for Tribe 2, as development moves forward many of the items listed here will (hopefully) no longer be necessary or no longer apply.

2) Use the Alternative Installer, the Desktop installer installs but fails to boot

3) The system is not incredibly stable, things crash at least once per session so if you are look for stability stay with Feisty.

===Hard Disk Controller===
When the system boots hit F1 to enter the Bios, select Config->Serial ATA (SATA) and set the SATA Controller mode option to "Compatibility".

===Video:===

====Intel:====
Must install using the alternate CD or the regular CD and hit F4 to change VGA settings to 1024x768x32 and use regular install.

Status of intel driver unknown.

====Nvidia:====

X will fail to start for users running Nvidia cards. Boot into recovery mode and type:

{{cmdroot|dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg}}

Accept all the defaults except change the driver from NV to VESA

Type {{cmdroot|telinit 3}} to boot into a GUI and use Synaptic to install Build-Essentials

Go to Nvidia.com and download the latest Nvidia Drivers to your desktop

When the download completes hit Ctrl-F1 to drop to a console. Login and type:

{{cmdroot|sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop}}

Then type:

{{cmdroot|cd Desktop}}

{{cmdroot|sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run}}

If the file you download is newer that 100.14.11 make sure you modify the command appropriately

Reboot:
{{cmdroot|sudo shutdown -r now}}

After Rebooting Gnome should start normally

{{WARN|After a couple of reboots X won't start until I reinstall the drivers, I am investgating}}

{{NOTE|With each new Kernel release this process must be repeated}}

===Wireless:===

The Atheros card should be supported by the drivers built into Gutsy.

{{HELP|Can someone with an Atheros card confirm this?}}

The Intel a/b/g/n (IPW4965) card requires the iwlwifi drivers from Intel:

{{NOTE|As the release process moves forward the Kernel will be updated so make sure to update the paths below?}}

{{NOTE|With each new Kernel release this process must be repeated}}

{{cmdroot|mkdir wireless}}
{{cmdroot|cd wireless}}

{{cmdroot|wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/mac80211/downloads/mac80211-8.0.1.tgz}}

{{cmdroot|tar xzf mac80211-8.0.1.tgz}}

{{cmdroot|cd mac80211-8.0.1.tgz}}
{{cmdroot|sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-7 /lib/modules/2.6.22-7-generic/source}}
{{cmdroot|sudo make patch_kernel}}

{{cmdroot|wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-0.0.34.tgz}}
{{cmdroot|tar xzf iwlwifi-0.0.34.tgz}}
{{cmdroot|cd ../iwlwifi-0.0.34/}}
{{cmdroot|make}}
{{cmdroot|sudo make install}}

{{cmdroot|wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.15.tgz}}
{{cmdroot|tar xzf iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.15.tgz}}
{{cmdroot|sudo cp ../iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.15/iwlwifi-4965.ucode}}
{{cmdroot|/lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965.ucode}}

{{cmdroot|sudo modprobe iwl4965}}

===Audio:===

Audio does not work out of the box, download and install the latest version of Alsa from CVS using the instructions here:
https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/wiki/wikka.php?wakka=SourceCodeRepository

{{T61}}

Talk:Installing Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on a ThinkPad T61

2007-06-30T14:13:25Z

Aboutblank: /* X3100 Intel Graphics */

Questions should probably go in here (the discussion section). I will update this article a bit later today.

=='''QUESTIONS!!!'''==
'''I think these should be in the discussion section. ~ shadowarts'''

(Sorry if this is not the right way to do this. This page is incredibly helpful, and I just had a few short questions/clarifications.)

First, did you boot into "Safe Graphics Mode" from LILO or Grub, or from a graphical login screen? My installation hangs right before the login screen, and all of the virtual screens are blank. I can log into a recover mode from Grub to get a shell.
-- This was prior to installation, in the boot options of the Ubuntu Live CD

Second, if you could add a little bit of detail as to how you installed a new kernel, why agpgart is necessary, and even what part GM965 is, that would be awesome :)

== Suspending ==

Did anybody had the same issue with suspending ? (System slow)

== X3100 Intel Graphics ==

I booted the regular CD and hit F4 to change the VGA settings to 1024 x 768 x 32 and the installer ran in graphical mode. After rebooting, the GUI loads and I can see that I am using the "vesa" driver.

I have attempted to use an updated intel driver, but I can't seem to get 24-bit color depth.

[[User:Aboutblank|Aboutblank]] 14:13, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Talk:Installing Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on a ThinkPad T61

2007-06-30T14:13:11Z

Aboutblank: X3100 Intel Graphics

Installing Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on a ThinkPad T61

2007-06-28T22:54:38Z

Aboutblank: /* HDAPS */

We'll I got it basically working, so far (will update as i get more thing working).

===SATA Issues===
At first, the Ubuntu Live CD would not start at all, this seems to be a problem with the SATA AHCI driver. I had to go into the BIOS and change the SATA driver from ACHI to compatibility (What is the difference? Am I loosing performance?).

===NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (Solved)===
After initial issues like those explained above in the SATA Issues, I received the xorg error 'fatal error: no screens found'. I was able to boot into Safe Graphics Mode and run the installer, though I had to move both window manager bars to see enough of the install window to use it.

Alternatively, you can download the drivers via wget in a console. Take care to follow the instructions in
[http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490 the NVidia Forum] and uninstall all the packages wit apt-get remove, as descirbed.
Then run the nvidia installer.

Remember that, after you upgrade the kernel, you also have to re-install the drivers.

=== Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (Chipset GM965) (Solved)===
After that the CD seemed to boot but the screen was just garbage [http://shadowarts.nonlogic.org/projects/thinkpad/screen_garbage.jpg Picture]. In order to get around that issue I had to go back and download the Alternate CD, which allows you to install in text only mode. From here, the text-only install went okay. Changing the VGA settings on the regular CD worked for me.

When I booted up after the installation, I was still getting the same garbage on the screen. To resolve this I edited my [http://shadowarts.nonlogic.org/projects/thinkpad/xorg.conf xorg.conf] file as shown. I also had to install the latest kernel for Feisty, as the one off of the install disk did have have /dev/agpgart. And I could then use X11. There were still some issues however. The screen seemed somewhat fuzzy. This was a little more challenging of a fix... I found [http://www.spinics.net/lists/xorg/msg25099.html this] mailing list posting, according to it, there was a small glitch in the driver. To fix it:
<pre>
apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-intel
cd xserver-xorg-video-intel-1.9.94/
vim src/i830_lvds.c
Goto line 230 and delete (PFIT_ENABLE | VERT_AUTSCALE ....);, replacing it with 0; then quit vim
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
cd ..
dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-intel_1.9.94-lubuntu3_amd64.deb (wont be amd64 with a 32-bit install)
</pre>
Now reboot your computer, and it should work. **NOTE: For some reason just restarting X didn't fix it, seems like you must reboot.** At this point you should have a nice, crisp display.

I am still working on aiglx and compiz (switching desktops on a cube doesnt seem to work, though I have some ideas...). There are some issues with OpenGL apps freezing Xorg as well, but the standard 2D desktop works flawlessly.

===ThinkFinger===
Ubuntu does not come with a package for thinkfinger. Downloading the most recent source and building it was simple enough: Download most recent version (0.3 at time of writing)
<pre>
tar xvzf thinkfinger-0.3.tar.gz
cd thinkfinger-0.3/
./configure --with-securedir=/lib/security --with-birdir=/etc/pam_thinkfinger
make -j5 (hey its dual core!)
sudo make install
</pre>

Configuring it is easy as well, open /etc/pam.d/common-auth:
<pre>
auth sufficient pam_thinkfiger.so
auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok_secure
</pre>

Now just run sudo tf-tool --add-user <username> and it will all be setup. (I found this somewhere on the web, I wish I could give a source but I'm afraid I cant find it, thank you Anonymous!).

===HDAPS===
This seems to be working fine now, I just follow the step on [[How_to_protect_the_harddisk_through_APS]]. Using hdaps-gl does the inverse of the accelerometer, though it's not really a big deal, the harddrive protection should still work.

===Can you hear me now?.... What? (Solved!)===
After upgrading to 1.0.14 I still had no sound, and this took about a week to solved (though it was so sadly obvious though). Just upgrading to alsa 1.0.14 will not be enough, there were a few patches released right after the release that fix the Thinkpad's. The reason I missed this was because it was the same day so the release of 1.0.14!

Anyway download the source code to the alsa-driver and apply these patches: (links to the revisions)

* [http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/rev/958b39f3e8dd Fix Oops with AD1984 thinkpad model]
* [http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/rev/47ca87407c84 Fix AD1984 basic model]
* [http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/rev/ca37aeeeb0ea Fix Thinkpad X61/T61 outputs]

After doing a make and make install reboot your computer (or rrmmod snd-hda-intel && modprobe snd-hda-intel). And run alsamixer (for me it only works as root atm). You will have to play with the settings a bit. Make sure the speaker option is not muted and leave the Internal Mic Boost at 0, other wise you will have a really loud microphone feedback sort of sound constantly.

I had to chmod -R 777 /dev/snd/ to get everything work for now. (THIS IS NOT THE CORRECT WAY TO DO IT, IT WILL NOT STAY BETWEEN REBOOTS!).

Audio playback should then work, audio capture (microphone) doesn't seem to work, but I am probably not going to try and fix it, I don't use the capture so I am not concerned with that at the moment.

==Overall==
I initially had some big problems getting this working, but now its working quite well. The wifi card worked at startup (uses madwifi) and I am happy because I don't seem to need any proprietary software to run this system.

=='''QUESTIONS!!!'''==
'''I think these should be in the discussion section. ~ shadowarts'''

(Sorry if this is not the right way to do this. This page is incredibly helpful, and I just had a few short questions/clarifications.)

First, did you boot into "Safe Graphics Mode" from LILO or Grub, or from a graphical login screen? My installation hangs right before the login screen, and all of the virtual screens are blank. I can log into a recover mode from Grub to get a shell.

Second, if you could add a little bit of detail as to how you installed a new kernel, why agpgart is necessary, and even what part GM965 is, that would be awesome :)

==References==
* This guide is listed at the [http://tuxmobil.org/ibm.html TuxMobil Linux laptop and notebook installation guides survey (IBM/Lenovo)].

Installing Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on a ThinkPad T61

2007-06-27T22:25:49Z

Aboutblank: apt-get install source -> apt-get source

We'll I got it basically working, so far (will update as i get more thing working).

===SATA Issues===
At first, the Ubuntu Live CD would not start at all, this seems to be a problem with the SATA AHCI driver. I had to go into the BIOS and change the SATA driver from ACHI to compatibility (What is the difference? Am I loosing performance?).

===NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (Solved)===
After initial issues like those explained above in the SATA Issues, I received the xorg error 'fatal error: no screens found'. I was able to boot into Safe Graphics Mode and run the installer, though I had to move both window manager bars to see enough of the install window to use it.

Alternatively, you can download the drivers via wget in a console. Take care to follow the instructions in
[http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490 the NVidia Forum] and uninstall all the packages wit apt-get remove, as descirbed.
Then run the nvidia installer.

Remember that, after you upgrade the kernel, you also have to re-install the drivers.

=== Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (Chipset GM965) (Solved)===
After that the CD seemed to boot but the screen was just garbage [http://shadowarts.nonlogic.org/projects/thinkpad/screen_garbage.jpg Picture]. In order to get around that issue I had to go back and download the Alternate CD, which allows you to install in text only mode. From here, the text-only install went okay. Changing the VGA settings on the regular CD worked for me.

When I booted up after the installation, I was still getting the same garbage on the screen. To resolve this I edited my [http://shadowarts.nonlogic.org/projects/thinkpad/xorg.conf xorg.conf] file as shown. I also had to install the latest kernel for Feisty, as the one off of the install disk did have have /dev/agpgart. And I could then use X11. There were still some issues however. The screen seemed somewhat fuzzy. This was a little more challenging of a fix... I found [http://www.spinics.net/lists/xorg/msg25099.html this] mailing list posting, according to it, there was a small glitch in the driver. To fix it:
<pre>
apt-get source xserver-xorg-video-intel
cd xserver-xorg-video-intel-1.9.94/
vim src/i830_lvds.c
Goto line 230 and delete (PFIT_ENABLE | VERT_AUTSCALE ....);, replacing it with 0; then quit vim
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
cd ..
dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-intel_1.9.94-lubuntu3_amd64.deb (wont be amd64 with a 32-bit install)
</pre>
Now reboot your computer, and it should work. **NOTE: For some reason just restarting X didn't fix it, seems like you must reboot.** At this point you should have a nice, crisp display.

I am still working on aiglx and compiz (switching desktops on a cube doesnt seem to work, though I have some ideas...). There are some issues with OpenGL apps freezing Xorg as well, but the standard 2D desktop works flawlessly.

===ThinkFinger===
Ubuntu does not come with a package for thinkfinger. Downloading the most recent source and building it was simple enough: Download most recent version (0.3 at time of writing)
<pre>
tar xvzf thinkfinger-0.3.tar.gz
cd thinkfinger-0.3/
./configure --with-securedir=/lib/security --with-birdir=/etc/pam_thinkfinger
make -j5 (hey its dual core!)
sudo make install
</pre>

Configuring it is easy as well, open /etc/pam.d/common-auth:
<pre>
auth sufficient pam_thinkfiger.so
auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok_secure
</pre>

Now just run sudo tf-tool --add-user <username> and it will all be setup. (I found this somewhere on the web, I wish I could give a source but I'm afraid I cant find it, thank you Anonymous!).

===HDAPS===
This seems to be working fine now, I just follow the step on [How_to_protect_the_harddisk_through_APS]. Using hdaps-gl does the inverse of the accelerometer, though it's not really a big deal, the harddrive protection should still work.

===Can you hear me now?.... What? (Solved!)===
After upgrading to 1.0.14 I still had no sound, and this took about a week to solved (though it was so sadly obvious though). Just upgrading to alsa 1.0.14 will not be enough, there were a few patches released right after the release that fix the Thinkpad's. The reason I missed this was because it was the same day so the release of 1.0.14!

Anyway download the source code to the alsa-driver and apply these patches: (links to the revisions)

* [http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/rev/958b39f3e8dd Fix Oops with AD1984 thinkpad model]
* [http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/rev/47ca87407c84 Fix AD1984 basic model]
* [http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/rev/ca37aeeeb0ea Fix Thinkpad X61/T61 outputs]

After doing a make and make install reboot your computer (or rrmmod snd-hda-intel && modprobe snd-hda-intel). And run alsamixer (for me it only works as root atm). You will have to play with the settings a bit. Make sure the speaker option is not muted and leave the Internal Mic Boost at 0, other wise you will have a really loud microphone feedback sort of sound constantly.

I had to chmod -R 777 /dev/snd/ to get everything work for now. (THIS IS NOT THE CORRECT WAY TO DO IT, IT WILL NOT STAY BETWEEN REBOOTS!).

Audio playback should then work, audio capture (microphone) doesn't seem to work, but I am probably not going to try and fix it, I don't use the capture so I am not concerned with that at the moment.

==Overall==
I initially had some big problems getting this working, but now its working quite well. The wifi card worked at startup (uses madwifi) and I am happy because I don't seem to need any proprietary software to run this system.

=='''QUESTIONS!!!'''==
'''I think these should be in the discussion section. ~ shadowarts'''

(Sorry if this is not the right way to do this. This page is incredibly helpful, and I just had a few short questions/clarifications.)

First, did you boot into "Safe Graphics Mode" from LILO or Grub, or from a graphical login screen? My installation hangs right before the login screen, and all of the virtual screens are blank. I can log into a recover mode from Grub to get a shell.

Second, if you could add a little bit of detail as to how you installed a new kernel, why agpgart is necessary, and even what part GM965 is, that would be awesome :)

Installing Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on a ThinkPad T61

2007-06-27T02:25:23Z

Aboutblank:

We'll I got it basically working, so far (will update as i get more thing working).

===SATA Issues===
At first, the Ubuntu Live CD would not start at all, this seems to be a problem with the SATA AHCI driver. I had to go into the BIOS and change the SATA driver from ACHI to compatibility (What is the difference? Am I loosing performance?).

===NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (Solved)===
After initial issues like those explained above in the SATA Issues, I received the xorg error 'fatal error: no screens found'. I was able to boot into Safe Graphics Mode and run the installer, though I had to move both window manager bars to see enough of the install window to use it.

Alternatively, you can download the drivers via wget in a console. Take care to follow the instructions in
[http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=72490 the NVidia Forum] and uninstall all the packages wit apt-get remove, as descirbed.
Then run the nvidia installer.

Remember that, after you upgrade the kernel, you also have to re-install the drivers.

=== Intel Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 (Chipset GM965) (Solved)===
After that the CD seemed to boot but the screen was just garbage [http://shadowarts.nonlogic.org/projects/thinkpad/screen_garbage.jpg Picture]. In order to get around that issue I had to go back and download the Alternate CD, which allows you to install in text only mode. From here, the text-only install went okay. Changing the VGA settings on the regular CD worked for me.

When I booted up after the installation, I was still getting the same garbage on the screen. To resolve this I edited my [http://shadowarts.nonlogic.org/projects/thinkpad/xorg.conf xorg.conf] file as shown. I also had to install the latest kernel for Feisty, as the one off of the install disk did have have /dev/agpgart. And I could then use X11. There were still some issues however. The screen seemed somewhat fuzzy. This was a little more challenging of a fix... I found [http://www.spinics.net/lists/xorg/msg25099.html this] mailing list posting, according to it, there was a small glitch in the driver. To fix it:
<pre>
apt-get install source xserver-xorg-video-intel
cd xserver-xorg-video-intel-1.9.94/
vim src/i830_lvds.c
Goto line 230 and delete (PFIT_ENABLE | VERT_AUTSCALE ....);, replacing it with 0; then quit vim
dpkg-buildpackage -rfakeroot -uc -b
cd ..
dpkg -i xserver-xorg-video-intel_1.9.94-lubuntu3_amd64.deb (wont be amd64 with a 32-bit install)
</pre>
Now reboot your computer, and it should work. **NOTE: For some reason just restarting X didn't fix it, seems like you must reboot.** At this point you should have a nice, crisp display.

I am still working on aiglx and compiz (switching desktops on a cube doesnt seem to work, though I have some ideas...). There are some issues with OpenGL apps freezing Xorg as well, but the standard 2D desktop works flawlessly.

===ThinkFinger===
Ubuntu does not come with a package for thinkfinger. Downloading the most recent source and building it was simple enough: Download most recent version (0.3 at time of writing)
<pre>
tar xvzf thinkfinger-0.3.tar.gz
cd thinkfinger-0.3/
./configure --with-securedir=/lib/security --with-birdir=/etc/pam_thinkfinger
make -j5 (hey its dual core!)
sudo make install
</pre>

Configuring it is easy as well, open /etc/pam.d/common-auth:
<pre>
auth sufficient pam_thinkfiger.so
auth required pam_unix.so try_first_pass nullok_secure
</pre>

Now just run sudo tf-tool --add-user <username> and it will all be setup. (I found this somewhere on the web, I wish I could give a source but I'm afraid I cant find it, thank you Anonymous!).

===HDAPS===
This seems to be working fine now, I just follow the step on [How_to_protect_the_harddisk_through_APS]. Using hdaps-gl does the inverse of the accelerometer, though it's not really a big deal, the harddrive protection should still work.

===Can you hear me now?.... What? (Solved!)===
After upgrading to 1.0.14 I still had no sound, and this took about a week to solved (though it was so sadly obvious though). Just upgrading to alsa 1.0.14 will not be enough, there were a few patches released right after the release that fix the Thinkpad's. The reason I missed this was because it was the same day so the release of 1.0.14!

Anyway download the source code to the alsa-driver and apply these patches: (links to the revisions)

* [http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/rev/958b39f3e8dd Fix Oops with AD1984 thinkpad model]
* [http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/rev/47ca87407c84 Fix AD1984 basic model]
* [http://hg.alsa-project.org/alsa-kernel/rev/ca37aeeeb0ea Fix Thinkpad X61/T61 outputs]

After doing a make and make install reboot your computer (or rrmmod snd-hda-intel && modprobe snd-hda-intel). And run alsamixer (for me it only works as root atm). You will have to play with the settings a bit. Make sure the speaker option is not muted and leave the Internal Mic Boost at 0, other wise you will have a really loud microphone feedback sort of sound constantly.

I had to chmod -R 777 /dev/snd/ to get everything work for now. (THIS IS NOT THE CORRECT WAY TO DO IT, IT WILL NOT STAY BETWEEN REBOOTS!).

Audio playback should then work, audio capture (microphone) doesn't seem to work, but I am probably not going to try and fix it, I don't use the capture so I am not concerned with that at the moment.

==Overall==
I initially had some big problems getting this working, but now its working quite well. The wifi card worked at startup (uses madwifi) and I am happy because I don't seem to need any proprietary software to run this system.

=='''QUESTIONS!!!'''==
'''I think these should be in the discussion section. ~ shadowarts'''

(Sorry if this is not the right way to do this. This page is incredibly helpful, and I just had a few short questions/clarifications.)

First, did you boot into "Safe Graphics Mode" from LILO or Grub, or from a graphical login screen? My installation hangs right before the login screen, and all of the virtual screens are blank. I can log into a recover mode from Grub to get a shell.

Second, if you could add a little bit of detail as to how you installed a new kernel, why agpgart is necessary, and even what part GM965 is, that would be awesome :)