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Installing Mandriva 2008 x86-64 Powerpack on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-13T16:49:31Z

Gslt: /* Suspend to RAM */

I don't like the dual booting since I have have seen myself and others more often booting into MS Windows. So, I made the Rescue & Recovery CDs for Windows Vista Home Basic that came bundled with the system and installed Mandriva Powerpack x86-64 successfully on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 6465-CTO.

Using the GNOME desktop environment, The problems I am facing are:
* Unable to successfully control the brightness using the brightness keys (Fn + Home/End)
* After suspending & resuming successfully, the screen is blank. I have to switch to a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F12) and then switch back to X (Ctrl+Alt+F7)
* The wireless LED seems to shiver. I think it is constantly scanning for wireless networks. Having had Thinkpads with Linux in the past, I don't think this is normal.

I also have Windows XP Professional installed inside VMWare Workstation 6

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The following is written by:--[[User:Gslt|Gslt]] 17:37, 13 January 2008 (CET)

== Suspend to RAM ==
On our Thinkpad T61 with the Intel GMA X3100 GM965 Intel and Mandriva 2008 Free, we needed to add the following into {{path|/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-lenovo.fdi}}
<pre>
<match key="system.hardware.product" string="765912G">
<merge key="power_management.quirk.s3_bios" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</pre>
{{cmdroot|service haldaemon restart}}

Replace the ''765912G'' with your product no, which can be obtained by doing
<pre>lshal | grep system.hardware.product</pre>
We also tried to use {{bootparm|key|power_management.quirk.s3_mode}} but then the the backlight would be set to zero (0) when resuming from suspend.

A crude way to fix the backlight issue is to create a file {{path|/etc/pm/sleep.d/00crudebacklightfix}} with the following
<pre>
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
hibernate)
;;
suspend)
;;
thaw)
/usr/bin/chvt 1
sleep 1
/usr/bin/chvt 7
;;
resume)
/usr/bin/chvt 1
sleep 1
/usr/bin/chvt 7
;;
*) echo "somebody is calling me totally wrong."
;;
esac
</pre>
{{cmdroot|chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/00crudebacklightfix}}

Installing Mandriva 2008 x86-64 Powerpack on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-13T16:37:07Z

Gslt: Added info on Suspend to RAM

I don't like the dual booting since I have have seen myself and others more often booting into MS Windows. So, I made the Rescue & Recovery CDs for Windows Vista Home Basic that came bundled with the system and installed Mandriva Powerpack x86-64 successfully on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 6465-CTO.

Using the GNOME desktop environment, The problems I am facing are:
* Unable to successfully control the brightness using the brightness keys (Fn + Home/End)
* After suspending & resuming successfully, the screen is blank. I have to switch to a virtual terminal (Ctrl+Alt+F12) and then switch back to X (Ctrl+Alt+F7)
* The wireless LED seems to shiver. I think it is constantly scanning for wireless networks. Having had Thinkpads with Linux in the past, I don't think this is normal.

I also have Windows XP Professional installed inside VMWare Workstation 6

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The following is written by:--[[User:Gslt|Gslt]] 17:37, 13 January 2008 (CET)

== Suspend to RAM ==
On our Thinkpad T61 with the Intel GMA X3100 GM965 Intel and Mandriva 2008 Free, we needed to add the following into {{path|/usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-lenovo.fdi}}
<pre>
<match key="system.hardware.product" string="765912G">
<merge key="power_management.quirk.s3_bios" type="bool">true</merge>
</match>
</pre>
Replace the ''765912G'' with your product no, which can be obtained by doing
<pre>lshal | grep system.hardware.product</pre>
We also tried to use {{bootparm|key|power_management.quirk.s3_mode}} but then the the backlight would be set to zero (0) when resuming from suspend.

A crude way to fix the backlight issue is to create a file {{path|/etc/pm/sleep.d/00crudebacklightfix}} with the following
<pre>
#!/bin/bash
case $1 in
hibernate)
;;
suspend)
;;
thaw)
/usr/bin/chvt 1
sleep 1
/usr/bin/chvt 7
;;
resume)
/usr/bin/chvt 1
sleep 1
/usr/bin/chvt 7
;;
*) echo "somebody is calling me totally wrong."
;;
esac
</pre>
{{cmdroot|chmod +x /etc/pm/sleep.d/00crudebacklightfix}}