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Talk:Installing Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on a ThinkPad T61

2007-09-21T15:10:34Z

Brycebaril: Intermittent problems with networking after recent Gutsy patch

==New Nvidia Driver released==

http://www.nvidia.com/object/linux_display_ia32_100.14.19.html

Time to test, supposedly it stabilizes compiz. When I get home tonight I will write up install instructions and what it fixes if someone doesn't beat me to it.

: The new NVIDIA driver doesn't fix the compiz+3d accel bug, causing X to crash, at least not on my system. I have the NVIDIA Quadro FX570M. I've removed compiz from my system since I value a buggy NVIDIA driver more than cheesy desktop effects. [[User:Rybu|Rybu]]

== Core 2 Duo running at 800 mHz? ==
The applications Sysinfo and PowerTOP both say that my CPU is running at 800 MHz. When I first open Sysinfo, it says a number around 2 GHz but it then drops to 800 MHz. Sysinfo says something about laptop CPU frequency changing (being "dynamic"), but it remains static at 800 MHz. [[User:SteveSims|SteveSims]] 00:51, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

This is normal. This is the "frequency scaling" feature of the laptop. Whenever the processors aren't being used they drop down to 800MHz to conserve power. All you have to do is run some CPU-intensive task and you'll see them jump up to 2GHz. There's a little applet that you can add to the top panel called "CPU Frequency Scaling Monitor" that will let you watch the processor speed up and down in real time: Right-click on the top panel bar and select "Add to Panel" to find it; it's under "System and Hardware" --[[User:Mike Richards|Mike Richards]] 06:31, 13 September 2007 (UTC)

==Desktop_Applet crash on login after update (2007-09-16) with x86 and AMD64 versions (Fixed in daily build 20070918, reappears in 20070919.1)==
I found out that my Thinkpad T61 is a 64-bit machine so I installed the 64-bit version of Ubuntu 7.10 Tribe 5. I tried updating the machine, which worked fine until it had to configure and install my updates. With about 12 minutes remaining it hangs up and the terminal within the Update Manager says that some components must be restarted (and the update hangs) so I restart my computer. When I log in, I get an error message that says something about a Deskbar_Applet not working, and it asks me if I want to delete it. Regardless of my selection, I can no longer update the machine nor run Applications --> Add/Remove. I thought it must be a difference between AMD64 and Intel's x86-64 near-clone, so I re-installed the 32-bit version. When I updated, the same thing happened after I updated it. I'm guessing this is a bug withing the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUI GUI] or the package manager.

However, I can load Firefox from my panel just fine. [[User:SteveSims|SteveSims]] 05:01, 17 September 2007 (UTC)

:I had a similar problem. I found if I just avoided updating the system until after a full reboot, things were fine. [[User:Rybu|Rybu]]

::The most recent update (9-18-2007) solves this problem.

:::The problem appears again in 20070919.1, at least the AMD64 version (I haven't tested the x86-32 version). [[User:SteveSims|SteveSims]] 21:49, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

::::And it still exists as of September 20th. [[User:SteveSims|SteveSims]] 04:53, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

==Touchpad issues==
After updating on September 18th from the original x86 Tribe 5, tapping the touchpad hard no longer clicks, and the right edge no longer scrolls. [[User:SteveSims|SteveSims]] 01:59, 19 September 2007 (UTC)
:Go to System -> Preferences -> Mouse. In the Touchpad tab you can activate tap to click and vertical scrolling. --[[User:Aerials|aerials]] 13:05, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

==Daily build 20070918 AMD64 won't install==
Double-clicking on the Install icon in the LiveCD does nothing. No window loads, I can't install it from the LiveCD. [[User:SteveSims|SteveSims]] 01:59, 19 September 2007 (UTC)

==Brightness buttons==

The brightness buttons used to work on my system. But now that I have 2 displays, they don't work anymore. When I first installed Ubuntu 7.10 the brightness buttons did not work but I found some tips on-line to enable them... unfortunately I don't remember what those tips were... silly me... I'll dig up the info and put it into the wiki, soon. [[User:Rybu|Rybu]]

==Compiling existing information==

This [[http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Lenovo_Thinkpad_T61]] link has some useful information that is worthwhile compiling into the wiki here. [[User:Rybu|Rybu]]

==Desktop effects don't consistenly work==
I installed new themes and updated today and suddenly the new desktop effects that were added to 7.10 don't work.

However, Deskbar_Applet doesn't crash with the update, even though it does with today's most current LiveCD. Touchpad issues still exist. [[User:SteveSims|SteveSims]] 06:37, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

==NetworkManger Intermittently Fails To Start, No Networking When It Fails==
After the most recent Kernel patch under Gutsy, NetworkManager doesn't always manage to run when I boot, and when it fails I have no networking. If I try init.d/networking restart, it fails with 'unknown device' for all devices. Looking through the logs, my best guess is ath0 isn't ready when NetworkManager starts, so it starts cycling through other devices until it crashes. Does anyone have any ideas? It seems to only work about 1-2 boots out of 10.

Installing Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) on a ThinkPad T61

2007-06-29T00:40:15Z

Brycebaril: /* NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M (Solved) */

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.

After installing the NVIDIA drivers, your laptop may not wake after suspend or hibernation. I followed these instructions to fix it [https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NvidiaLaptopBinaryDriverSuspend Ubuntu Community Help].

=== 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.
-- 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 :)

==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

2007-06-29T00:36:06Z

Brycebaril: /* '''QUESTIONS!!!''' */

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.
-- 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 :)

==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

2007-06-19T06:01:08Z

Brycebaril:

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

==Pre Installation Notes==
===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?).

===GM965 Woes... (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.

===nVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M Woes... (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.

==Post Installation Notes==
===More GM965 Woes... (Solved Also)===
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?===
I upgraded to alsa 1.0.14 as it claims to have at least some support for the AD1984 chip, but so far it isn't looking good. I found a [https://bugtrack.alsa-project.org/alsa-bug/view.php?id=3163 bug report] on alsa's webpage and added a note about the information I could find, basically just a stack trace, hopefully this will be helpful to the guys at alsa.

==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.