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Installing Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on a ThinkPad X201

2010-11-01T20:14:38Z

Loxo: /* What works out of the box */

[[Category: X201]]
[[Category: Ubuntu 10.04]]
{{Todo|Very preliminary installation report, will write more hopefully soon}}

= Installation =

I used an USB CD/DVD drive (41N5629, USB 2.0 Super Multi-Burner Drive with LightScribe) to install from the desktop CD.

== Dual-booting Windows 7 ==

Telling the Ubuntu installer's partitioner to put Ubuntu and Windows side by side will leave the pre-installed Windows 7 operational.
The [[Rescue and Recovery]] partition cannot, however, be booted. If you ever think that you will be needing to reinstall your Windows or use Rescue and Recovery, please make the rescue discs from Windows before installing Ubuntu.

= What works out of the box =

* Ethernet [[Intel Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000) PCI-Express]]
* WLAN [[Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200]]
* Touchpad and
* [[UltraNav]] (TrackPoint / Touchpad combo)
* Display [[Intel HD Graphics]]
* Special keys (at least most)
* Suspend and resume (although there is an approx. 3 s delay before the keyboard is activated after resume: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/346310 )

= What needs some tweaking =

== [[Qualcomm Gobi 2000]] WWAN ==

The Mobile broadband can be made to work with Network Manager with

sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-wwan-lucid-generic
sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/gobi
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/UMTS/amss.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/UMTS/apps.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/6/UQCN.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/

and rebooting. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bug/554099

Installing Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on a ThinkPad X201

2010-11-01T20:14:12Z

Loxo:

[[Category: X201]]
[[Category: Ubuntu 10.04]]
{{Todo|Very preliminary installation report, will write more hopefully soon}}

= Installation =

I used an USB CD/DVD drive (41N5629, USB 2.0 Super Multi-Burner Drive with LightScribe) to install from the desktop CD.

== Dual-booting Windows 7 ==

Telling the Ubuntu installer's partitioner to put Ubuntu and Windows side by side will leave the pre-installed Windows 7 operational.
The [[Rescue and Recovery]] partition cannot, however, be booted. If you ever think that you will be needing to reinstall your Windows or use Rescue and Recovery, please make the rescue discs from Windows before installing Ubuntu.

= What works out of the box =

* Ethernet [[Intel Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000) PCI-Express]]
* WLAN [[Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200]]
* Touchpad and
* [[UltraNav]] (TrackPoint / Touchpad combo)
* Display [[Intel HD Graphics]]
* Special keys (at least most)
* Suspend and resume (although there is an approx. 3 s delay before the keyboard is activated after resume: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/346310

= What needs some tweaking =

== [[Qualcomm Gobi 2000]] WWAN ==

The Mobile broadband can be made to work with Network Manager with

sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-wwan-lucid-generic
sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/gobi
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/UMTS/amss.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/UMTS/apps.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/6/UQCN.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/

and rebooting. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bug/554099

Installing Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on a ThinkPad X201

2010-10-30T06:07:18Z

Loxo: /* Qualcomm Gobi 2000 WWAN */

[[Category: X201]]
[[Category: Ubuntu 10.04]]
{{Todo|Very preliminary installation report, will write more hopefully soon}}

= Installation =

I used an USB CD/DVD drive (41N5629, USB 2.0 Super Multi-Burner Drive with LightScribe) to install from the desktop CD.

== Dual-booting Windows 7 ==

Telling the Ubuntu installer's partitioner to put Ubuntu and Windows side by side will leave the pre-installed Windows 7 operational.
The [[Rescue and Recovery]] partition cannot, however, be booted. If you ever think that you will be needing to reinstall your Windows or use Rescue and Recovery, please make the rescue discs from Windows before installing Ubuntu.

= What works out of the box =

* Ethernet [[Intel Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000) PCI-Express]]
* WLAN [[Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200]]
* Suspend and resume
* Touchpad and
* [[UltraNav]] (TrackPoint / Touchpad combo)
* Display [[Intel HD Graphics]]
* Special keys (at least most)

= What needs some tweaking =

== [[Qualcomm Gobi 2000]] WWAN ==

The Mobile broadband can be made to work with Network Manager with

sudo aptitude install linux-backports-modules-wwan-lucid-generic
sudo mkdir /lib/firmware/gobi
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/UMTS/amss.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/UMTS/apps.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/6/UQCN.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/

and rebooting. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bug/554099

Installing Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) on a ThinkPad X201

2010-10-29T20:03:59Z

Loxo: 1

[[Category: X201]]
[[Category: Ubuntu]]
{{Todo|Very preliminary installation report, will write more hopefully soon}}

= Installation =

I used an USB CD/DVD drive (41N5629, USB 2.0 Super Multi-Burner Drive with LightScribe) to install from the desktop CD.

== Dual-booting Windows 7 ==

Telling the Ubuntu installer's partitioner to put Ubuntu and Windows side by side will leave the pre-installed Windows 7 operational.
The [[Rescue and Recovery]] partition cannot, however, be booted. If you ever think that you will be needing to reinstall your Windows or use Rescue and Recovery, please make the rescue discs from Windows before installing Ubuntu.

= What works out of the box =

* Ethernet [[Intel Gigabit Ethernet (10/100/1000) PCI-Express]]
* WLAN [[Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6200]]
* Suspend and resume
* Touchpad and
* [[UltraNav]] (TrackPoint / Touchpad combo)
* Display [[Intel HD Graphics]]
* Special keys (at least most)

= What needs some tweaking =

== [[Qualcomm Gobi 2000]] WWAN ==

The Mobile broadband can be made to work with Network Manager using:

aptitude install linux-backports-modules-wwan-lucid-generic
mkdir /lib/firmware/gobi
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/UMTS/amss.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/UMTS/apps.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/
sudo cp -p '/windows/c/Program Files/QUALCOMM/Images/Lenovo/6/UQCN.mbn' /lib/firmware/gobi/
reboot

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/lucid/+bug/554099

ATI Mobility Radeon X1400

2010-09-24T12:33:38Z

Loxo: /* Proprietary ATI driver on Ubuntu Feisty */

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This is an ATI video adapter.
== Features ==
* Chipset: ATI M54
* PCI ID: 1002:7145
* PCI Express x16
* 128MB GDDR1 video memory
* Up to 512Mb [[HyperMemory]]
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== Linux X.Org driver ==
Supported.

There is the [[radeonhd]] which is developed based on the published specs by AMD/ATI. It appears that most of this work is being merged into the [[radeon]] (aka, [http://www.x.org/wiki/radeon ati]) driver. On my system, the [[radeon]] driver has better 3D performance and is more stable than the [[radeonhd]] driver.

There is also the deprecated experimental [http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=avivo/xf86-video-avivo.git;a=summary avivo driver] which works, but does not yet support any 3D acceleration.

== ThinkPad LCD ==
Display on the internal LCD works as long as you set the monitor settings correct.

=== External VGA port ===
({{Z61m}}): Works, but only if the X-server detects something plugged in here, eg. before X started or after a restart.

({{T60}}): use '''aticonfig --enable-monitor=lvds,crt1''' to clone onto the VGA port. I use this to drive projectors all the time. Note that only the physical resolutions of the VGA port and the LVDS can differ (that means that if you use clone mode, you can have a 1400x1050 internal screen and 1680x1050 external and use both of them at the same time, but the internal screen will show only a portion of the real "desktop"; this area shifts when you move your mouse towards the edge of the viewport).

=== SVideo port ===
??

=== DVI port ===
??

== Linux X.org vesa driver ==

The vesa driver works out of the box. If you can't make it to show higher resolutions, you may try to use lower color depth -- the best fonts sizes on 15.4 widescreen were achieved with 1400x1050 at 16 depth (highcolor).

== Proprietary ATI driver ==
Proprietary [[fglrx]] driver version 8.24.8 adds support for the x1400 chipset (according to ATI changelog). It works, including dualhead, 3d and video (XV) acceleration, when using the fglrx kernel module. (Without it, you get screen corruption including underlined mouse pointers.)

Sample "Device" section for xorg.conf:

Section "Device"
Identifier "ATI Graphics Adapter 0"
Driver "fglrx"
Option "ForceMonitors" "lvds,crt1"
Option "Centermode" "off"
Option "VideoOverlay" "on"
Option "OpenGLOverlay" "off"
Option "OverlayOnCRTC2" "0"
Option "PseudoColorVisuals" "off"
Option "HSync2" "31-64"
Option "VRefresh2" "56-75"
Option "UseFastTLS" "off"
Option "Mode2" "1280x1024,1024x768,800x600,640x480"
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
EndSection

XVideo support using the VideoOverlay option may not work with recent drivers. With version 8.29.6 of the fglrx driver, you can instead use

Option "TexturedVideo" "on"

Use the '''xvinfo''' utility to verify if XVideo support is available.

=== Proprietary ATI driver on Ubuntu Feisty ===
On my Lenovo R60 (9641HYM) I had a similar system hang (on return from sleep) as described on the [[ATI_Mobility_FireGL_V5200]] , and a similar fix (Step 3) seemed to get my laptop to wake up safely.

That fix is to edit /etc/default/acpi-support. Change the line POST_VIDEO=true to read POST_VIDEO=.

=== Proprietary ATI driver on Ubuntu Lucid ===
On my Lenovo T60 (2007-G5G), the screen remained full of white vertical lines on a black background after resume. A double VT switch (Ctrl-Alt-F1, Ctrl-Alt-F7) was needed to make the screen work again.

A fix that worked for me was to edit /etc/default/grub, replace the line GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="" with

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="nomodeset"

and run update-grub. (See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/425264 .)

=== Proprietary ATI driver and suspend2 ===
It works perfetctly, but you need to set this parameter:
echo 20000 >/sys/power/suspend2/extra_pages_allowance

== Linux kernel Framebuffer driver ==
Works with the VESA driver at 1280x1024 (you have to append {{bootparm|vga|794}} to the kernel boot parameters) and 1400x1050 ({{bootparm|vga|837}}). Does not work wirh vesa-tng at more than 1024x768 :(

== ThinkPads this chip may be found in ==
* {{T60}}
* {{Z61m}}
* {{R60}} - Lenovo R60 contains X1400 chipset

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