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Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-05-26T14:22:37Z

Tp42:

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 Bit) and (amd64, 64 Bit). Overall impression: An installation without severe glitches so far. :-)

==Keyboard==

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option '''acpi_osi="Linux"''' .

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Bluetooth/WLAN Hardware Switch==

The Bluetooth/WLAN Hardware Switch on the backside of the X301 does not work properly, yet. Booting the X301 with Bt/WLAN switched off and turning the switch to "on" lead to a not working wireless connection, although "Enable Wireless" is checked in the network-manager applet. However, if I manually disable/enable "Enable Wireless" in the network-manager applet after such a boot process, the wireless connection starts to work correctly. --> Any hints someone hot to get the hardware switch working correctly?

==Ericsson F3507g Mobile Broadband Module==

Work out of the box on amd64 version, should work therefore on i386 too.

The GPS works too, when sending the commands manually to the card as described in http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Ericsson_F3507g_Mobile_Broadband_Module . However I couln't connect to /dev/ttyACMx with cu. I first had to change the owner of the devices with "sudo chown uucp.uucp /dev/ttyACMx".

==Bluetooth==

untested.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile? I try to but I am not very lucking finding the right profile at the moment).

==Power Management==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

Using a second battery instead of the CD-ROM drive works fine too.

==Display==

Works fine :-)

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Both work out of the box. But there might be a problem with the X Server crashing after resume (see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/340328 )

==Sound==

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)

==Camera==

Works out of the box (tested with [http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ Cheese]) but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

==External Displays==
Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

==Boot time==

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 26. May 2009 by tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-29T14:40:47Z

Tp42: /* Fan */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).
Overall impression: an installation without severe glitches so far :-)

==Keyboard==

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option '''acpi_osi="Linux"''' .

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Bluetooth==

untested.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile? I try to but I am not very lucking finding the right profile at the moment).

On Jaunty "System>Administration Fan Control Panels" does not work. You have to start it manually in the Terminal with
sudo tpfan-admin
A fix for the control panel underway.

==Power Management==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

==Display==

Works fine :-)

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Both work out of the box.

==Sound==

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)

==Camera==

Works out of the box (tested with [http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ Cheese]) but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

==External Displays==
Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

==Boot time==

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 29. April 2009 by tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-29T14:39:28Z

Tp42: /* Fan */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).
Overall impression: an installation without severe glitches so far :-)

==Keyboard==

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option '''acpi_osi="Linux"''' .

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Bluetooth==

untested.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?). On Jaunty "System>Administration Fan Control Panels" does not work. You have to start it manually in the Terminal with
sudo tpfan-admin
A fix for the control panel underway.

==Power Management==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

==Display==

Works fine :-)

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Both work out of the box.

==Sound==

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)

==Camera==

Works out of the box (tested with [http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ Cheese]) but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

==External Displays==
Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

==Boot time==

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 29. April 2009 by tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-29T14:38:35Z

Tp42: /* Credits */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).
Overall impression: an installation without severe glitches so far :-)

==Keyboard==

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option '''acpi_osi="Linux"''' .

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Bluetooth==

untested.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?). On Jaunty System>Administration Fan Control Panels does not work. You have to start it manually in the Terminal with
sudo tpfan-admin
A fix is underway.

==Power Management==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

==Display==

Works fine :-)

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Both work out of the box.

==Sound==

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)

==Camera==

Works out of the box (tested with [http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ Cheese]) but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

==External Displays==
Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

==Boot time==

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 29. April 2009 by tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-29T14:35:52Z

Tp42: /* Fan */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).
Overall impression: an installation without severe glitches so far :-)

==Keyboard==

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option '''acpi_osi="Linux"''' .

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Bluetooth==

untested.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?). On Jaunty System>Administration Fan Control Panels does not work. You have to start it manually in the Terminal with
sudo tpfan-admin
A fix is underway.

==Power Management==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

==Display==

Works fine :-)

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Both work out of the box.

==Sound==

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)

==Camera==

Works out of the box (tested with [http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ Cheese]) but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

==External Displays==
Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

==Boot time==

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by --[[User:Blk|Blk]]
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-29T14:29:03Z

Tp42: /* Fan */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).
Overall impression: an installation without severe glitches so far :-)

==Keyboard==

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option '''acpi_osi="Linux"''' .

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Bluetooth==

untested.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?). On Jaunty System>Administration Fan Control Panels does not work. You have to start it manually in the Terminal with
sudo tpfan-admin

==Power Management==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

==Display==

Works fine :-)

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Both work out of the box.

==Sound==

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)

==Camera==

Works out of the box (tested with [http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ Cheese]) but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

==External Displays==
Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

==Boot time==

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by --[[User:Blk|Blk]]
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-29T14:28:00Z

Tp42: /* Credits */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).
Overall impression: an installation without severe glitches so far :-)

==Keyboard==

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option '''acpi_osi="Linux"''' .

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Bluetooth==

untested.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?). On Jaunty System>Administration Fan Control Panels does not work. You have to start it manually in the Terminal with
sudo tpfan-admin

==Power Management==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

==Display==

Works fine :-)

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Both work out of the box.

==Sound==

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)

==Camera==

Works out of the box (tested with [http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ Cheese]) but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

==External Displays==
Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

==Boot time==

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by --[[User:Blk|Blk]]
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-29T14:23:54Z

Tp42: /* Credits */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).
Overall impression: an installation without severe glitches so far :-)

==Keyboard==

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option '''acpi_osi="Linux"''' .

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Bluetooth==

untested.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?)

==Power Management==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

==Display==

Works fine :-)

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Both work out of the box.

==Sound==

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)

==Camera==

Works out of the box (tested with [http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ Cheese]) but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

==External Displays==
Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

==Boot time==

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by --[[User:Blk|Blk]]
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-29T14:22:07Z

Tp42: /* Camera */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).
Overall impression: an installation without severe glitches so far :-)

==Keyboard==

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option '''acpi_osi="Linux"''' .

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Bluetooth==

untested.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?)

==Power Management==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

==Display==

Works fine :-)

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Both work out of the box.

==Sound==

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)

==Camera==

Works out of the box (tested with [http://projects.gnome.org/cheese/ Cheese]) but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

==External Displays==
Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

==Boot time==

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-29T14:19:55Z

Tp42: /* External Displays */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).
Overall impression: an installation without severe glitches so far :-)

==Keyboard==

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option '''acpi_osi="Linux"''' .

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Bluetooth==

untested.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?)

==Power Management==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

==Display==

Works fine :-)

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Both work out of the box.

==Sound==

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)

==Camera==

Works out of the box but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

==External Displays==
Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

==Boot time==

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:46:32Z

Tp42: /* Overview */

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:45:03Z

Tp42:

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:41:43Z

Tp42: /* Power Mgmt */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).

==Keyboard==

pretty much all of the fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?)

==Power Mgmt==

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

==Display==

Works fine OOB

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Closing the lid puts the machine to sleep, i often managed to resume from ram but i also got frozen (mouse moveable but switching to console doesn't work, screen remains black except for the pointer (i have a black screensaver)) - caution here (solution below) -
The [[Installing_Debian_(stable)_on_an_X300#Suspend_.26_Hibernate]] article suggests removing the e1000e module which i haven't tried but may help.
The 2.6.28-rc3-git1 kernel features a suspend fix for the iwl-agn (wireless) driver, so if that was an issue, it might be gone with the next kernel (not shipped with ubuntu 8.10)

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959712&page=2 This script] offers a solution to the black-freeze-on-resume problem. my suspend now works flawlessly

==Sound==

Works out of the box .

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)
* microphone
* headphone

==Camera==

works fine in ekiga (green LED lights up as well)
if it doesn't work you might want to try
sudo adduser youruser video

==Graphics Chipset and Driver Information==

'''GM45'''

The chipset is called: [http://support.intel.com/Products/Notebook/Chipsets/GM45/GM45-overview.htm Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset]

It was initially referred to as IGD_GM "Intel Integrated Graphics Device" in the Intel driver

Next, support for G4X "Intel 4 series chipsets" was added

IGD_GM was then renamed to it's official name GM45

Finally, the defines IS_GM45 were merged into IS_G4X because they are identical as at 2008-11-06.

'''Direct Rendering Infrastructure'''

DRI is supported with the package libgl1-mesa-dri

The DRI driver is i965 [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel]

$ grep AIGLX:\ Loaded /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so

The DRM driver is i915

$ lsmod | grep drm
drm 110304 3 i915

==External Displays==

vga port works as expected. you can activate it through xrandr or the screen resolution preferences.

with xrandr HDMI-1 shows up as well, but i couldn't test it yet (no adaptor/displayport device)

untested:
* displayport

Display port may not yet be supported by the intel driver: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037375.html.
There have however been commits since then mentioning displayport.

The follow xorg.conf works with an external 24" dell display connected via VGA:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel GM45 Express"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-VGA" "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "monitor-LVDS" "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
# Option "Left Of" "Laptop" # causes crash on intel 2.5
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel GM45 Express"
Monitor "Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 3360 2100
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works OOB, requires p

The Intel i965 driver supports 8192x8192 resolution in the Intrepid packages, however the mesa dri driver libgl1-mesa-dri currently only supports 2048x2048. This means is your combined resolution is greater than that (i.e you have an external display attached), mesa eyecandy will be disabled.

Bug link: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298]

$ glxinfo -l | grep 2048
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048

There is crude patch which has had mostly positive feedback, but no-one seems to be sure: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html]. I've not tested it yet. It's also not clear when it will be fixed upstream.

==Boot time==

* 12sec from power to GRUB
* 22sec to GDM, 18sec with tweaked readahead
* 29sec from GDM into fully loaded session, 28sec with readahead (seems awfully slow to me.. fluxbox takes like 2sec..)

===Improvements===

====Native Upstart boot====

Since i'm using this one i even ditched boot-readahead (still using desktop-readahead though)
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6158642&postcount=38 Described here]

====Concurent loading====

edit ''/etc/init.d/rc'' set ''CONCURRENCY'' from ''none'' to ''shell''
CONCURRENCY=shell

note that after some testing i've switched back to the ''none'' value, as some startups weren't clean

====Readahead====

install readahead
sudo apt-get install readahead

profile your GNOME login (instructions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565651], then filter out all files under 100kb (guessed number, feel free to experiment).
i filtered out small files since access times on SSD is very good, throughput not.
The linked page states about loading in ''Xsession.d'', forget about that and put your profiled files in ''/etc/readahead/boot'' and ''/etc/readahead/desktop''. This will cause the boot process to profit and the desktop-files to load earlier (before X starts)
to create a ''boot'' file, append "profile" to the GRUB prompt

filter out the small files
boot file:
cat boot | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > boot.sorted
now delete any line below the wanted threshold from the sorted file (i took "dash" as masker with 104kb)
since the boot file is ordered, we want to keep that order
cat boot | while read line; do grep "$line" boot.sorted >> boot.new; done;

same for the desktop file:
cat desktop | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > desktop.sorted
remove lines from sorted file...
cat desktop | while read line; do grep "$line" desktop.sorted >> desktop.new; done;

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AthenTec and not a Thompson chip.

==Minimalistic installation instructions==

The system you are installing when following these instructions will be a good starting point if you want a clean ubuntu system without all the bloat (which you may of course add yourself). For a simple installation just download and install the desktop version of ubuntu 8.10 (beta)

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:41:05Z

Tp42: /* Wireless */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).

==Keyboard==

pretty much all of the fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works out of the box.

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?)

==Power Mgmt==

Seems to work fine. The gnome power manager reports ~3h30 which sounds about right. The [Fn] + [F3] combination even causes the applet to pop up info :)

==Display==

Works fine OOB

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Closing the lid puts the machine to sleep, i often managed to resume from ram but i also got frozen (mouse moveable but switching to console doesn't work, screen remains black except for the pointer (i have a black screensaver)) - caution here (solution below) -
The [[Installing_Debian_(stable)_on_an_X300#Suspend_.26_Hibernate]] article suggests removing the e1000e module which i haven't tried but may help.
The 2.6.28-rc3-git1 kernel features a suspend fix for the iwl-agn (wireless) driver, so if that was an issue, it might be gone with the next kernel (not shipped with ubuntu 8.10)

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959712&page=2 This script] offers a solution to the black-freeze-on-resume problem. my suspend now works flawlessly

==Sound==

Works out of the box .

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)
* microphone
* headphone

==Camera==

works fine in ekiga (green LED lights up as well)
if it doesn't work you might want to try
sudo adduser youruser video

==Graphics Chipset and Driver Information==

'''GM45'''

The chipset is called: [http://support.intel.com/Products/Notebook/Chipsets/GM45/GM45-overview.htm Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset]

It was initially referred to as IGD_GM "Intel Integrated Graphics Device" in the Intel driver

Next, support for G4X "Intel 4 series chipsets" was added

IGD_GM was then renamed to it's official name GM45

Finally, the defines IS_GM45 were merged into IS_G4X because they are identical as at 2008-11-06.

'''Direct Rendering Infrastructure'''

DRI is supported with the package libgl1-mesa-dri

The DRI driver is i965 [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel]

$ grep AIGLX:\ Loaded /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so

The DRM driver is i915

$ lsmod | grep drm
drm 110304 3 i915

==External Displays==

vga port works as expected. you can activate it through xrandr or the screen resolution preferences.

with xrandr HDMI-1 shows up as well, but i couldn't test it yet (no adaptor/displayport device)

untested:
* displayport

Display port may not yet be supported by the intel driver: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037375.html.
There have however been commits since then mentioning displayport.

The follow xorg.conf works with an external 24" dell display connected via VGA:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel GM45 Express"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-VGA" "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "monitor-LVDS" "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
# Option "Left Of" "Laptop" # causes crash on intel 2.5
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel GM45 Express"
Monitor "Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 3360 2100
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works OOB, requires p

The Intel i965 driver supports 8192x8192 resolution in the Intrepid packages, however the mesa dri driver libgl1-mesa-dri currently only supports 2048x2048. This means is your combined resolution is greater than that (i.e you have an external display attached), mesa eyecandy will be disabled.

Bug link: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298]

$ glxinfo -l | grep 2048
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048

There is crude patch which has had mostly positive feedback, but no-one seems to be sure: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html]. I've not tested it yet. It's also not clear when it will be fixed upstream.

==Boot time==

* 12sec from power to GRUB
* 22sec to GDM, 18sec with tweaked readahead
* 29sec from GDM into fully loaded session, 28sec with readahead (seems awfully slow to me.. fluxbox takes like 2sec..)

===Improvements===

====Native Upstart boot====

Since i'm using this one i even ditched boot-readahead (still using desktop-readahead though)
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6158642&postcount=38 Described here]

====Concurent loading====

edit ''/etc/init.d/rc'' set ''CONCURRENCY'' from ''none'' to ''shell''
CONCURRENCY=shell

note that after some testing i've switched back to the ''none'' value, as some startups weren't clean

====Readahead====

install readahead
sudo apt-get install readahead

profile your GNOME login (instructions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565651], then filter out all files under 100kb (guessed number, feel free to experiment).
i filtered out small files since access times on SSD is very good, throughput not.
The linked page states about loading in ''Xsession.d'', forget about that and put your profiled files in ''/etc/readahead/boot'' and ''/etc/readahead/desktop''. This will cause the boot process to profit and the desktop-files to load earlier (before X starts)
to create a ''boot'' file, append "profile" to the GRUB prompt

filter out the small files
boot file:
cat boot | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > boot.sorted
now delete any line below the wanted threshold from the sorted file (i took "dash" as masker with 104kb)
since the boot file is ordered, we want to keep that order
cat boot | while read line; do grep "$line" boot.sorted >> boot.new; done;

same for the desktop file:
cat desktop | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > desktop.sorted
remove lines from sorted file...
cat desktop | while read line; do grep "$line" desktop.sorted >> desktop.new; done;

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AthenTec and not a Thompson chip.

==Minimalistic installation instructions==

The system you are installing when following these instructions will be a good starting point if you want a clean ubuntu system without all the bloat (which you may of course add yourself). For a simple installation just download and install the desktop version of ubuntu 8.10 (beta)

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:39:52Z

Tp42: /* Fan */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).

==Keyboard==

pretty much all of the fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works OOB: The Ubuntu 8.10 Kernel (2.6.27) ships with support for the IWL5100 (''iwlagn'' driver)

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?)

==Power Mgmt==

Seems to work fine. The gnome power manager reports ~3h30 which sounds about right. The [Fn] + [F3] combination even causes the applet to pop up info :)

==Display==

Works fine OOB

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Closing the lid puts the machine to sleep, i often managed to resume from ram but i also got frozen (mouse moveable but switching to console doesn't work, screen remains black except for the pointer (i have a black screensaver)) - caution here (solution below) -
The [[Installing_Debian_(stable)_on_an_X300#Suspend_.26_Hibernate]] article suggests removing the e1000e module which i haven't tried but may help.
The 2.6.28-rc3-git1 kernel features a suspend fix for the iwl-agn (wireless) driver, so if that was an issue, it might be gone with the next kernel (not shipped with ubuntu 8.10)

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959712&page=2 This script] offers a solution to the black-freeze-on-resume problem. my suspend now works flawlessly

==Sound==

Works out of the box .

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)
* microphone
* headphone

==Camera==

works fine in ekiga (green LED lights up as well)
if it doesn't work you might want to try
sudo adduser youruser video

==Graphics Chipset and Driver Information==

'''GM45'''

The chipset is called: [http://support.intel.com/Products/Notebook/Chipsets/GM45/GM45-overview.htm Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset]

It was initially referred to as IGD_GM "Intel Integrated Graphics Device" in the Intel driver

Next, support for G4X "Intel 4 series chipsets" was added

IGD_GM was then renamed to it's official name GM45

Finally, the defines IS_GM45 were merged into IS_G4X because they are identical as at 2008-11-06.

'''Direct Rendering Infrastructure'''

DRI is supported with the package libgl1-mesa-dri

The DRI driver is i965 [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel]

$ grep AIGLX:\ Loaded /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so

The DRM driver is i915

$ lsmod | grep drm
drm 110304 3 i915

==External Displays==

vga port works as expected. you can activate it through xrandr or the screen resolution preferences.

with xrandr HDMI-1 shows up as well, but i couldn't test it yet (no adaptor/displayport device)

untested:
* displayport

Display port may not yet be supported by the intel driver: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037375.html.
There have however been commits since then mentioning displayport.

The follow xorg.conf works with an external 24" dell display connected via VGA:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel GM45 Express"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-VGA" "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "monitor-LVDS" "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
# Option "Left Of" "Laptop" # causes crash on intel 2.5
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel GM45 Express"
Monitor "Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 3360 2100
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works OOB, requires p

The Intel i965 driver supports 8192x8192 resolution in the Intrepid packages, however the mesa dri driver libgl1-mesa-dri currently only supports 2048x2048. This means is your combined resolution is greater than that (i.e you have an external display attached), mesa eyecandy will be disabled.

Bug link: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298]

$ glxinfo -l | grep 2048
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048

There is crude patch which has had mostly positive feedback, but no-one seems to be sure: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html]. I've not tested it yet. It's also not clear when it will be fixed upstream.

==Boot time==

* 12sec from power to GRUB
* 22sec to GDM, 18sec with tweaked readahead
* 29sec from GDM into fully loaded session, 28sec with readahead (seems awfully slow to me.. fluxbox takes like 2sec..)

===Improvements===

====Native Upstart boot====

Since i'm using this one i even ditched boot-readahead (still using desktop-readahead though)
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6158642&postcount=38 Described here]

====Concurent loading====

edit ''/etc/init.d/rc'' set ''CONCURRENCY'' from ''none'' to ''shell''
CONCURRENCY=shell

note that after some testing i've switched back to the ''none'' value, as some startups weren't clean

====Readahead====

install readahead
sudo apt-get install readahead

profile your GNOME login (instructions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565651], then filter out all files under 100kb (guessed number, feel free to experiment).
i filtered out small files since access times on SSD is very good, throughput not.
The linked page states about loading in ''Xsession.d'', forget about that and put your profiled files in ''/etc/readahead/boot'' and ''/etc/readahead/desktop''. This will cause the boot process to profit and the desktop-files to load earlier (before X starts)
to create a ''boot'' file, append "profile" to the GRUB prompt

filter out the small files
boot file:
cat boot | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > boot.sorted
now delete any line below the wanted threshold from the sorted file (i took "dash" as masker with 104kb)
since the boot file is ordered, we want to keep that order
cat boot | while read line; do grep "$line" boot.sorted >> boot.new; done;

same for the desktop file:
cat desktop | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > desktop.sorted
remove lines from sorted file...
cat desktop | while read line; do grep "$line" desktop.sorted >> desktop.new; done;

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AthenTec and not a Thompson chip.

==Minimalistic installation instructions==

The system you are installing when following these instructions will be a good starting point if you want a clean ubuntu system without all the bloat (which you may of course add yourself). For a simple installation just download and install the desktop version of ubuntu 8.10 (beta)

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:39:13Z

Tp42: /* Fan */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).

==Keyboard==

pretty much all of the fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works OOB: The Ubuntu 8.10 Kernel (2.6.27) ships with support for the IWL5100 (''iwlagn'' driver)

==Fan==

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP.
To get the X301 silent and cool, [http://www.gambitchess.org/mediawiki/index.php/ThinkPad_Fan_Control ThinkPad Fan Control] may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provia a profile?)

==Power Mgmt==

Seems to work fine. The gnome power manager reports ~3h30 which sounds about right. The [Fn] + [F3] combination even causes the applet to pop up info :)

==Display==

Works fine OOB

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Closing the lid puts the machine to sleep, i often managed to resume from ram but i also got frozen (mouse moveable but switching to console doesn't work, screen remains black except for the pointer (i have a black screensaver)) - caution here (solution below) -
The [[Installing_Debian_(stable)_on_an_X300#Suspend_.26_Hibernate]] article suggests removing the e1000e module which i haven't tried but may help.
The 2.6.28-rc3-git1 kernel features a suspend fix for the iwl-agn (wireless) driver, so if that was an issue, it might be gone with the next kernel (not shipped with ubuntu 8.10)

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959712&page=2 This script] offers a solution to the black-freeze-on-resume problem. my suspend now works flawlessly

==Sound==

Works out of the box .

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)
* microphone
* headphone

==Camera==

works fine in ekiga (green LED lights up as well)
if it doesn't work you might want to try
sudo adduser youruser video

==Graphics Chipset and Driver Information==

'''GM45'''

The chipset is called: [http://support.intel.com/Products/Notebook/Chipsets/GM45/GM45-overview.htm Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset]

It was initially referred to as IGD_GM "Intel Integrated Graphics Device" in the Intel driver

Next, support for G4X "Intel 4 series chipsets" was added

IGD_GM was then renamed to it's official name GM45

Finally, the defines IS_GM45 were merged into IS_G4X because they are identical as at 2008-11-06.

'''Direct Rendering Infrastructure'''

DRI is supported with the package libgl1-mesa-dri

The DRI driver is i965 [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel]

$ grep AIGLX:\ Loaded /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so

The DRM driver is i915

$ lsmod | grep drm
drm 110304 3 i915

==External Displays==

vga port works as expected. you can activate it through xrandr or the screen resolution preferences.

with xrandr HDMI-1 shows up as well, but i couldn't test it yet (no adaptor/displayport device)

untested:
* displayport

Display port may not yet be supported by the intel driver: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037375.html.
There have however been commits since then mentioning displayport.

The follow xorg.conf works with an external 24" dell display connected via VGA:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel GM45 Express"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-VGA" "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "monitor-LVDS" "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
# Option "Left Of" "Laptop" # causes crash on intel 2.5
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel GM45 Express"
Monitor "Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 3360 2100
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works OOB, requires p

The Intel i965 driver supports 8192x8192 resolution in the Intrepid packages, however the mesa dri driver libgl1-mesa-dri currently only supports 2048x2048. This means is your combined resolution is greater than that (i.e you have an external display attached), mesa eyecandy will be disabled.

Bug link: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298]

$ glxinfo -l | grep 2048
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048

There is crude patch which has had mostly positive feedback, but no-one seems to be sure: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html]. I've not tested it yet. It's also not clear when it will be fixed upstream.

==Boot time==

* 12sec from power to GRUB
* 22sec to GDM, 18sec with tweaked readahead
* 29sec from GDM into fully loaded session, 28sec with readahead (seems awfully slow to me.. fluxbox takes like 2sec..)

===Improvements===

====Native Upstart boot====

Since i'm using this one i even ditched boot-readahead (still using desktop-readahead though)
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6158642&postcount=38 Described here]

====Concurent loading====

edit ''/etc/init.d/rc'' set ''CONCURRENCY'' from ''none'' to ''shell''
CONCURRENCY=shell

note that after some testing i've switched back to the ''none'' value, as some startups weren't clean

====Readahead====

install readahead
sudo apt-get install readahead

profile your GNOME login (instructions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565651], then filter out all files under 100kb (guessed number, feel free to experiment).
i filtered out small files since access times on SSD is very good, throughput not.
The linked page states about loading in ''Xsession.d'', forget about that and put your profiled files in ''/etc/readahead/boot'' and ''/etc/readahead/desktop''. This will cause the boot process to profit and the desktop-files to load earlier (before X starts)
to create a ''boot'' file, append "profile" to the GRUB prompt

filter out the small files
boot file:
cat boot | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > boot.sorted
now delete any line below the wanted threshold from the sorted file (i took "dash" as masker with 104kb)
since the boot file is ordered, we want to keep that order
cat boot | while read line; do grep "$line" boot.sorted >> boot.new; done;

same for the desktop file:
cat desktop | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > desktop.sorted
remove lines from sorted file...
cat desktop | while read line; do grep "$line" desktop.sorted >> desktop.new; done;

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AthenTec and not a Thompson chip.

==Minimalistic installation instructions==

The system you are installing when following these instructions will be a good starting point if you want a clean ubuntu system without all the bloat (which you may of course add yourself). For a simple installation just download and install the desktop version of ubuntu 8.10 (beta)

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:34:53Z

Tp42: /* Sound */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).

==Keyboard==

pretty much all of the fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works OOB: The Ubuntu 8.10 Kernel (2.6.27) ships with support for the IWL5100 (''iwlagn'' driver)

==Fan==

Works fine. It is spinning lightly almost all the time, but acceptable (like in windows)

==Power Mgmt==

Seems to work fine. The gnome power manager reports ~3h30 which sounds about right. The [Fn] + [F3] combination even causes the applet to pop up info :)

==Display==

Works fine OOB

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Closing the lid puts the machine to sleep, i often managed to resume from ram but i also got frozen (mouse moveable but switching to console doesn't work, screen remains black except for the pointer (i have a black screensaver)) - caution here (solution below) -
The [[Installing_Debian_(stable)_on_an_X300#Suspend_.26_Hibernate]] article suggests removing the e1000e module which i haven't tried but may help.
The 2.6.28-rc3-git1 kernel features a suspend fix for the iwl-agn (wireless) driver, so if that was an issue, it might be gone with the next kernel (not shipped with ubuntu 8.10)

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959712&page=2 This script] offers a solution to the black-freeze-on-resume problem. my suspend now works flawlessly

==Sound==

Works out of the box .

Untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)
* microphone
* headphone

==Camera==

works fine in ekiga (green LED lights up as well)
if it doesn't work you might want to try
sudo adduser youruser video

==Graphics Chipset and Driver Information==

'''GM45'''

The chipset is called: [http://support.intel.com/Products/Notebook/Chipsets/GM45/GM45-overview.htm Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset]

It was initially referred to as IGD_GM "Intel Integrated Graphics Device" in the Intel driver

Next, support for G4X "Intel 4 series chipsets" was added

IGD_GM was then renamed to it's official name GM45

Finally, the defines IS_GM45 were merged into IS_G4X because they are identical as at 2008-11-06.

'''Direct Rendering Infrastructure'''

DRI is supported with the package libgl1-mesa-dri

The DRI driver is i965 [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel]

$ grep AIGLX:\ Loaded /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so

The DRM driver is i915

$ lsmod | grep drm
drm 110304 3 i915

==External Displays==

vga port works as expected. you can activate it through xrandr or the screen resolution preferences.

with xrandr HDMI-1 shows up as well, but i couldn't test it yet (no adaptor/displayport device)

untested:
* displayport

Display port may not yet be supported by the intel driver: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037375.html.
There have however been commits since then mentioning displayport.

The follow xorg.conf works with an external 24" dell display connected via VGA:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel GM45 Express"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-VGA" "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "monitor-LVDS" "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
# Option "Left Of" "Laptop" # causes crash on intel 2.5
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel GM45 Express"
Monitor "Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 3360 2100
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works OOB, requires p

The Intel i965 driver supports 8192x8192 resolution in the Intrepid packages, however the mesa dri driver libgl1-mesa-dri currently only supports 2048x2048. This means is your combined resolution is greater than that (i.e you have an external display attached), mesa eyecandy will be disabled.

Bug link: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298]

$ glxinfo -l | grep 2048
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048

There is crude patch which has had mostly positive feedback, but no-one seems to be sure: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html]. I've not tested it yet. It's also not clear when it will be fixed upstream.

==Boot time==

* 12sec from power to GRUB
* 22sec to GDM, 18sec with tweaked readahead
* 29sec from GDM into fully loaded session, 28sec with readahead (seems awfully slow to me.. fluxbox takes like 2sec..)

===Improvements===

====Native Upstart boot====

Since i'm using this one i even ditched boot-readahead (still using desktop-readahead though)
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6158642&postcount=38 Described here]

====Concurent loading====

edit ''/etc/init.d/rc'' set ''CONCURRENCY'' from ''none'' to ''shell''
CONCURRENCY=shell

note that after some testing i've switched back to the ''none'' value, as some startups weren't clean

====Readahead====

install readahead
sudo apt-get install readahead

profile your GNOME login (instructions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565651], then filter out all files under 100kb (guessed number, feel free to experiment).
i filtered out small files since access times on SSD is very good, throughput not.
The linked page states about loading in ''Xsession.d'', forget about that and put your profiled files in ''/etc/readahead/boot'' and ''/etc/readahead/desktop''. This will cause the boot process to profit and the desktop-files to load earlier (before X starts)
to create a ''boot'' file, append "profile" to the GRUB prompt

filter out the small files
boot file:
cat boot | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > boot.sorted
now delete any line below the wanted threshold from the sorted file (i took "dash" as masker with 104kb)
since the boot file is ordered, we want to keep that order
cat boot | while read line; do grep "$line" boot.sorted >> boot.new; done;

same for the desktop file:
cat desktop | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > desktop.sorted
remove lines from sorted file...
cat desktop | while read line; do grep "$line" desktop.sorted >> desktop.new; done;

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AthenTec and not a Thompson chip.

==Minimalistic installation instructions==

The system you are installing when following these instructions will be a good starting point if you want a clean ubuntu system without all the bloat (which you may of course add yourself). For a simple installation just download and install the desktop version of ubuntu 8.10 (beta)

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:28:54Z

Tp42: /* Ethernet */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).

==Keyboard==

pretty much all of the fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

==Ethernet==

Works out of the box.

==Wireless==

Works OOB: The Ubuntu 8.10 Kernel (2.6.27) ships with support for the IWL5100 (''iwlagn'' driver)

==Fan==

Works fine. It is spinning lightly almost all the time, but acceptable (like in windows)

==Power Mgmt==

Seems to work fine. The gnome power manager reports ~3h30 which sounds about right. The [Fn] + [F3] combination even causes the applet to pop up info :)

==Display==

Works fine OOB

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Closing the lid puts the machine to sleep, i often managed to resume from ram but i also got frozen (mouse moveable but switching to console doesn't work, screen remains black except for the pointer (i have a black screensaver)) - caution here (solution below) -
The [[Installing_Debian_(stable)_on_an_X300#Suspend_.26_Hibernate]] article suggests removing the e1000e module which i haven't tried but may help.
The 2.6.28-rc3-git1 kernel features a suspend fix for the iwl-agn (wireless) driver, so if that was an issue, it might be gone with the next kernel (not shipped with ubuntu 8.10)

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959712&page=2 This script] offers a solution to the black-freeze-on-resume problem. my suspend now works flawlessly

==Sound==

Works out of the box on the generic kernel, i've run into some trouble with my custom kernel - feel free to report on what i'm missing.
alsamixer reports the Conexant chip being used so i've selected that one in the snd-hda-intel driver (selecting them all didn't help either)

i haven't extensively tested this feature untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)
* microphone
* headphone

-works correct so far with pulseaudio

-headphone port works

If no sound in applications such as Firefox, check the following: User name may be missing from audio group. Add it with:

sudo vi /etc/group

and add your user name to the audio group:

audio:x:29:[USERNAME]

In addition the PCM channel may be on zero. Slide it to maximum. Do this by double clicking the speaker icon and then clicking "mixer". Push the slider to max. Alternatively in a terminal session run:

alsamixer

Select PCM and set to maximum output.

==Camera==

works fine in ekiga (green LED lights up as well)
if it doesn't work you might want to try
sudo adduser youruser video

==Graphics Chipset and Driver Information==

'''GM45'''

The chipset is called: [http://support.intel.com/Products/Notebook/Chipsets/GM45/GM45-overview.htm Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset]

It was initially referred to as IGD_GM "Intel Integrated Graphics Device" in the Intel driver

Next, support for G4X "Intel 4 series chipsets" was added

IGD_GM was then renamed to it's official name GM45

Finally, the defines IS_GM45 were merged into IS_G4X because they are identical as at 2008-11-06.

'''Direct Rendering Infrastructure'''

DRI is supported with the package libgl1-mesa-dri

The DRI driver is i965 [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel]

$ grep AIGLX:\ Loaded /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so

The DRM driver is i915

$ lsmod | grep drm
drm 110304 3 i915

==External Displays==

vga port works as expected. you can activate it through xrandr or the screen resolution preferences.

with xrandr HDMI-1 shows up as well, but i couldn't test it yet (no adaptor/displayport device)

untested:
* displayport

Display port may not yet be supported by the intel driver: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037375.html.
There have however been commits since then mentioning displayport.

The follow xorg.conf works with an external 24" dell display connected via VGA:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel GM45 Express"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-VGA" "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "monitor-LVDS" "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
# Option "Left Of" "Laptop" # causes crash on intel 2.5
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel GM45 Express"
Monitor "Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 3360 2100
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works OOB, requires p

The Intel i965 driver supports 8192x8192 resolution in the Intrepid packages, however the mesa dri driver libgl1-mesa-dri currently only supports 2048x2048. This means is your combined resolution is greater than that (i.e you have an external display attached), mesa eyecandy will be disabled.

Bug link: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298]

$ glxinfo -l | grep 2048
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048

There is crude patch which has had mostly positive feedback, but no-one seems to be sure: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html]. I've not tested it yet. It's also not clear when it will be fixed upstream.

==Boot time==

* 12sec from power to GRUB
* 22sec to GDM, 18sec with tweaked readahead
* 29sec from GDM into fully loaded session, 28sec with readahead (seems awfully slow to me.. fluxbox takes like 2sec..)

===Improvements===

====Native Upstart boot====

Since i'm using this one i even ditched boot-readahead (still using desktop-readahead though)
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6158642&postcount=38 Described here]

====Concurent loading====

edit ''/etc/init.d/rc'' set ''CONCURRENCY'' from ''none'' to ''shell''
CONCURRENCY=shell

note that after some testing i've switched back to the ''none'' value, as some startups weren't clean

====Readahead====

install readahead
sudo apt-get install readahead

profile your GNOME login (instructions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565651], then filter out all files under 100kb (guessed number, feel free to experiment).
i filtered out small files since access times on SSD is very good, throughput not.
The linked page states about loading in ''Xsession.d'', forget about that and put your profiled files in ''/etc/readahead/boot'' and ''/etc/readahead/desktop''. This will cause the boot process to profit and the desktop-files to load earlier (before X starts)
to create a ''boot'' file, append "profile" to the GRUB prompt

filter out the small files
boot file:
cat boot | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > boot.sorted
now delete any line below the wanted threshold from the sorted file (i took "dash" as masker with 104kb)
since the boot file is ordered, we want to keep that order
cat boot | while read line; do grep "$line" boot.sorted >> boot.new; done;

same for the desktop file:
cat desktop | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > desktop.sorted
remove lines from sorted file...
cat desktop | while read line; do grep "$line" desktop.sorted >> desktop.new; done;

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AthenTec and not a Thompson chip.

==Minimalistic installation instructions==

The system you are installing when following these instructions will be a good starting point if you want a clean ubuntu system without all the bloat (which you may of course add yourself). For a simple installation just download and install the desktop version of ubuntu 8.10 (beta)

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:28:24Z

Tp42: /* Overview */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit).

==Keyboard==

pretty much all of the fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

==Ethernet==

Works OOB

==Wireless==

Works OOB: The Ubuntu 8.10 Kernel (2.6.27) ships with support for the IWL5100 (''iwlagn'' driver)

==Fan==

Works fine. It is spinning lightly almost all the time, but acceptable (like in windows)

==Power Mgmt==

Seems to work fine. The gnome power manager reports ~3h30 which sounds about right. The [Fn] + [F3] combination even causes the applet to pop up info :)

==Display==

Works fine OOB

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Closing the lid puts the machine to sleep, i often managed to resume from ram but i also got frozen (mouse moveable but switching to console doesn't work, screen remains black except for the pointer (i have a black screensaver)) - caution here (solution below) -
The [[Installing_Debian_(stable)_on_an_X300#Suspend_.26_Hibernate]] article suggests removing the e1000e module which i haven't tried but may help.
The 2.6.28-rc3-git1 kernel features a suspend fix for the iwl-agn (wireless) driver, so if that was an issue, it might be gone with the next kernel (not shipped with ubuntu 8.10)

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959712&page=2 This script] offers a solution to the black-freeze-on-resume problem. my suspend now works flawlessly

==Sound==

Works out of the box on the generic kernel, i've run into some trouble with my custom kernel - feel free to report on what i'm missing.
alsamixer reports the Conexant chip being used so i've selected that one in the snd-hda-intel driver (selecting them all didn't help either)

i haven't extensively tested this feature untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)
* microphone
* headphone

-works correct so far with pulseaudio

-headphone port works

If no sound in applications such as Firefox, check the following: User name may be missing from audio group. Add it with:

sudo vi /etc/group

and add your user name to the audio group:

audio:x:29:[USERNAME]

In addition the PCM channel may be on zero. Slide it to maximum. Do this by double clicking the speaker icon and then clicking "mixer". Push the slider to max. Alternatively in a terminal session run:

alsamixer

Select PCM and set to maximum output.

==Camera==

works fine in ekiga (green LED lights up as well)
if it doesn't work you might want to try
sudo adduser youruser video

==Graphics Chipset and Driver Information==

'''GM45'''

The chipset is called: [http://support.intel.com/Products/Notebook/Chipsets/GM45/GM45-overview.htm Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset]

It was initially referred to as IGD_GM "Intel Integrated Graphics Device" in the Intel driver

Next, support for G4X "Intel 4 series chipsets" was added

IGD_GM was then renamed to it's official name GM45

Finally, the defines IS_GM45 were merged into IS_G4X because they are identical as at 2008-11-06.

'''Direct Rendering Infrastructure'''

DRI is supported with the package libgl1-mesa-dri

The DRI driver is i965 [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel]

$ grep AIGLX:\ Loaded /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so

The DRM driver is i915

$ lsmod | grep drm
drm 110304 3 i915

==External Displays==

vga port works as expected. you can activate it through xrandr or the screen resolution preferences.

with xrandr HDMI-1 shows up as well, but i couldn't test it yet (no adaptor/displayport device)

untested:
* displayport

Display port may not yet be supported by the intel driver: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037375.html.
There have however been commits since then mentioning displayport.

The follow xorg.conf works with an external 24" dell display connected via VGA:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel GM45 Express"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-VGA" "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "monitor-LVDS" "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
# Option "Left Of" "Laptop" # causes crash on intel 2.5
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel GM45 Express"
Monitor "Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 3360 2100
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works OOB, requires p

The Intel i965 driver supports 8192x8192 resolution in the Intrepid packages, however the mesa dri driver libgl1-mesa-dri currently only supports 2048x2048. This means is your combined resolution is greater than that (i.e you have an external display attached), mesa eyecandy will be disabled.

Bug link: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298]

$ glxinfo -l | grep 2048
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048

There is crude patch which has had mostly positive feedback, but no-one seems to be sure: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html]. I've not tested it yet. It's also not clear when it will be fixed upstream.

==Boot time==

* 12sec from power to GRUB
* 22sec to GDM, 18sec with tweaked readahead
* 29sec from GDM into fully loaded session, 28sec with readahead (seems awfully slow to me.. fluxbox takes like 2sec..)

===Improvements===

====Native Upstart boot====

Since i'm using this one i even ditched boot-readahead (still using desktop-readahead though)
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6158642&postcount=38 Described here]

====Concurent loading====

edit ''/etc/init.d/rc'' set ''CONCURRENCY'' from ''none'' to ''shell''
CONCURRENCY=shell

note that after some testing i've switched back to the ''none'' value, as some startups weren't clean

====Readahead====

install readahead
sudo apt-get install readahead

profile your GNOME login (instructions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565651], then filter out all files under 100kb (guessed number, feel free to experiment).
i filtered out small files since access times on SSD is very good, throughput not.
The linked page states about loading in ''Xsession.d'', forget about that and put your profiled files in ''/etc/readahead/boot'' and ''/etc/readahead/desktop''. This will cause the boot process to profit and the desktop-files to load earlier (before X starts)
to create a ''boot'' file, append "profile" to the GRUB prompt

filter out the small files
boot file:
cat boot | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > boot.sorted
now delete any line below the wanted threshold from the sorted file (i took "dash" as masker with 104kb)
since the boot file is ordered, we want to keep that order
cat boot | while read line; do grep "$line" boot.sorted >> boot.new; done;

same for the desktop file:
cat desktop | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > desktop.sorted
remove lines from sorted file...
cat desktop | while read line; do grep "$line" desktop.sorted >> desktop.new; done;

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AthenTec and not a Thompson chip.

==Minimalistic installation instructions==

The system you are installing when following these instructions will be a good starting point if you want a clean ubuntu system without all the bloat (which you may of course add yourself). For a simple installation just download and install the desktop version of ubuntu 8.10 (beta)

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:26:50Z

Tp42: /* Credits */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Now that Intrepid is out the door, get it while it's fresh!

==Keyboard==

pretty much all of the fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

==Ethernet==

Works OOB

==Wireless==

Works OOB: The Ubuntu 8.10 Kernel (2.6.27) ships with support for the IWL5100 (''iwlagn'' driver)

==Fan==

Works fine. It is spinning lightly almost all the time, but acceptable (like in windows)

==Power Mgmt==

Seems to work fine. The gnome power manager reports ~3h30 which sounds about right. The [Fn] + [F3] combination even causes the applet to pop up info :)

==Display==

Works fine OOB

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Closing the lid puts the machine to sleep, i often managed to resume from ram but i also got frozen (mouse moveable but switching to console doesn't work, screen remains black except for the pointer (i have a black screensaver)) - caution here (solution below) -
The [[Installing_Debian_(stable)_on_an_X300#Suspend_.26_Hibernate]] article suggests removing the e1000e module which i haven't tried but may help.
The 2.6.28-rc3-git1 kernel features a suspend fix for the iwl-agn (wireless) driver, so if that was an issue, it might be gone with the next kernel (not shipped with ubuntu 8.10)

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959712&page=2 This script] offers a solution to the black-freeze-on-resume problem. my suspend now works flawlessly

==Sound==

Works out of the box on the generic kernel, i've run into some trouble with my custom kernel - feel free to report on what i'm missing.
alsamixer reports the Conexant chip being used so i've selected that one in the snd-hda-intel driver (selecting them all didn't help either)

i haven't extensively tested this feature untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)
* microphone
* headphone

-works correct so far with pulseaudio

-headphone port works

If no sound in applications such as Firefox, check the following: User name may be missing from audio group. Add it with:

sudo vi /etc/group

and add your user name to the audio group:

audio:x:29:[USERNAME]

In addition the PCM channel may be on zero. Slide it to maximum. Do this by double clicking the speaker icon and then clicking "mixer". Push the slider to max. Alternatively in a terminal session run:

alsamixer

Select PCM and set to maximum output.

==Camera==

works fine in ekiga (green LED lights up as well)
if it doesn't work you might want to try
sudo adduser youruser video

==Graphics Chipset and Driver Information==

'''GM45'''

The chipset is called: [http://support.intel.com/Products/Notebook/Chipsets/GM45/GM45-overview.htm Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset]

It was initially referred to as IGD_GM "Intel Integrated Graphics Device" in the Intel driver

Next, support for G4X "Intel 4 series chipsets" was added

IGD_GM was then renamed to it's official name GM45

Finally, the defines IS_GM45 were merged into IS_G4X because they are identical as at 2008-11-06.

'''Direct Rendering Infrastructure'''

DRI is supported with the package libgl1-mesa-dri

The DRI driver is i965 [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel]

$ grep AIGLX:\ Loaded /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so

The DRM driver is i915

$ lsmod | grep drm
drm 110304 3 i915

==External Displays==

vga port works as expected. you can activate it through xrandr or the screen resolution preferences.

with xrandr HDMI-1 shows up as well, but i couldn't test it yet (no adaptor/displayport device)

untested:
* displayport

Display port may not yet be supported by the intel driver: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037375.html.
There have however been commits since then mentioning displayport.

The follow xorg.conf works with an external 24" dell display connected via VGA:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel GM45 Express"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-VGA" "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "monitor-LVDS" "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
# Option "Left Of" "Laptop" # causes crash on intel 2.5
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel GM45 Express"
Monitor "Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 3360 2100
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works OOB, requires p

The Intel i965 driver supports 8192x8192 resolution in the Intrepid packages, however the mesa dri driver libgl1-mesa-dri currently only supports 2048x2048. This means is your combined resolution is greater than that (i.e you have an external display attached), mesa eyecandy will be disabled.

Bug link: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298]

$ glxinfo -l | grep 2048
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048

There is crude patch which has had mostly positive feedback, but no-one seems to be sure: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html]. I've not tested it yet. It's also not clear when it will be fixed upstream.

==Boot time==

* 12sec from power to GRUB
* 22sec to GDM, 18sec with tweaked readahead
* 29sec from GDM into fully loaded session, 28sec with readahead (seems awfully slow to me.. fluxbox takes like 2sec..)

===Improvements===

====Native Upstart boot====

Since i'm using this one i even ditched boot-readahead (still using desktop-readahead though)
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6158642&postcount=38 Described here]

====Concurent loading====

edit ''/etc/init.d/rc'' set ''CONCURRENCY'' from ''none'' to ''shell''
CONCURRENCY=shell

note that after some testing i've switched back to the ''none'' value, as some startups weren't clean

====Readahead====

install readahead
sudo apt-get install readahead

profile your GNOME login (instructions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565651], then filter out all files under 100kb (guessed number, feel free to experiment).
i filtered out small files since access times on SSD is very good, throughput not.
The linked page states about loading in ''Xsession.d'', forget about that and put your profiled files in ''/etc/readahead/boot'' and ''/etc/readahead/desktop''. This will cause the boot process to profit and the desktop-files to load earlier (before X starts)
to create a ''boot'' file, append "profile" to the GRUB prompt

filter out the small files
boot file:
cat boot | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > boot.sorted
now delete any line below the wanted threshold from the sorted file (i took "dash" as masker with 104kb)
since the boot file is ordered, we want to keep that order
cat boot | while read line; do grep "$line" boot.sorted >> boot.new; done;

same for the desktop file:
cat desktop | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > desktop.sorted
remove lines from sorted file...
cat desktop | while read line; do grep "$line" desktop.sorted >> desktop.new; done;

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AthenTec and not a Thompson chip.

==Minimalistic installation instructions==

The system you are installing when following these instructions will be a good starting point if you want a clean ubuntu system without all the bloat (which you may of course add yourself). For a simple installation just download and install the desktop version of ubuntu 8.10 (beta)

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:26:23Z

Tp42: /* Credits */

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

==Overview==

Now that Intrepid is out the door, get it while it's fresh!

==Keyboard==

pretty much all of the fn+... keys work (not all tested yet)
tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

==Ethernet==

Works OOB

==Wireless==

Works OOB: The Ubuntu 8.10 Kernel (2.6.27) ships with support for the IWL5100 (''iwlagn'' driver)

==Fan==

Works fine. It is spinning lightly almost all the time, but acceptable (like in windows)

==Power Mgmt==

Seems to work fine. The gnome power manager reports ~3h30 which sounds about right. The [Fn] + [F3] combination even causes the applet to pop up info :)

==Display==

Works fine OOB

==Suspend and Hibernate==

Closing the lid puts the machine to sleep, i often managed to resume from ram but i also got frozen (mouse moveable but switching to console doesn't work, screen remains black except for the pointer (i have a black screensaver)) - caution here (solution below) -
The [[Installing_Debian_(stable)_on_an_X300#Suspend_.26_Hibernate]] article suggests removing the e1000e module which i haven't tried but may help.
The 2.6.28-rc3-git1 kernel features a suspend fix for the iwl-agn (wireless) driver, so if that was an issue, it might be gone with the next kernel (not shipped with ubuntu 8.10)

[http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=959712&page=2 This script] offers a solution to the black-freeze-on-resume problem. my suspend now works flawlessly

==Sound==

Works out of the box on the generic kernel, i've run into some trouble with my custom kernel - feel free to report on what i'm missing.
alsamixer reports the Conexant chip being used so i've selected that one in the snd-hda-intel driver (selecting them all didn't help either)

i haven't extensively tested this feature untested remain:
* usage with a sound server (esd)
* microphone
* headphone

-works correct so far with pulseaudio

-headphone port works

If no sound in applications such as Firefox, check the following: User name may be missing from audio group. Add it with:

sudo vi /etc/group

and add your user name to the audio group:

audio:x:29:[USERNAME]

In addition the PCM channel may be on zero. Slide it to maximum. Do this by double clicking the speaker icon and then clicking "mixer". Push the slider to max. Alternatively in a terminal session run:

alsamixer

Select PCM and set to maximum output.

==Camera==

works fine in ekiga (green LED lights up as well)
if it doesn't work you might want to try
sudo adduser youruser video

==Graphics Chipset and Driver Information==

'''GM45'''

The chipset is called: [http://support.intel.com/Products/Notebook/Chipsets/GM45/GM45-overview.htm Mobile Intel® GM45 Express Chipset]

It was initially referred to as IGD_GM "Intel Integrated Graphics Device" in the Intel driver

Next, support for G4X "Intel 4 series chipsets" was added

IGD_GM was then renamed to it's official name GM45

Finally, the defines IS_GM45 were merged into IS_G4X because they are identical as at 2008-11-06.

'''Direct Rendering Infrastructure'''

DRI is supported with the package libgl1-mesa-dri

The DRI driver is i965 [http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel http://dri.freedesktop.org/wiki/Intel]

$ grep AIGLX:\ Loaded /var/log/Xorg.0.log
(II) AIGLX: Loaded and initialized /usr/lib/dri/i965_dri.so

The DRM driver is i915

$ lsmod | grep drm
drm 110304 3 i915

==External Displays==

vga port works as expected. you can activate it through xrandr or the screen resolution preferences.

with xrandr HDMI-1 shows up as well, but i couldn't test it yet (no adaptor/displayport device)

untested:
* displayport

Display port may not yet be supported by the intel driver: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-July/037375.html.
There have however been commits since then mentioning displayport.

The follow xorg.conf works with an external 24" dell display connected via VGA:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel GM45 Express"
Driver "intel"
Option "monitor-VGA" "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "monitor-LVDS" "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "DELL2407WFPHC"
Option "PreferredMode" "1920x1200"
# Option "Left Of" "Laptop" # causes crash on intel 2.5
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Laptop"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "HDMI-1"
Option "Ignore" "true"
EndSection
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel GM45 Express"
Monitor "Laptop"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Virtual 3360 2100
EndSubSection
EndSection
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "Default Layout"
Screen "Default Screen"
EndSection

==Compiz / 3D Acceleration==

Works OOB, requires p

The Intel i965 driver supports 8192x8192 resolution in the Intrepid packages, however the mesa dri driver libgl1-mesa-dri currently only supports 2048x2048. This means is your combined resolution is greater than that (i.e you have an external display attached), mesa eyecandy will be disabled.

Bug link: [https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/146298]

$ glxinfo -l | grep 2048
GL_MAX_TEXTURE_SIZE = 2048

There is crude patch which has had mostly positive feedback, but no-one seems to be sure: [http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-April/034707.html]. I've not tested it yet. It's also not clear when it will be fixed upstream.

==Boot time==

* 12sec from power to GRUB
* 22sec to GDM, 18sec with tweaked readahead
* 29sec from GDM into fully loaded session, 28sec with readahead (seems awfully slow to me.. fluxbox takes like 2sec..)

===Improvements===

====Native Upstart boot====

Since i'm using this one i even ditched boot-readahead (still using desktop-readahead though)
[http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=6158642&postcount=38 Described here]

====Concurent loading====

edit ''/etc/init.d/rc'' set ''CONCURRENCY'' from ''none'' to ''shell''
CONCURRENCY=shell

note that after some testing i've switched back to the ''none'' value, as some startups weren't clean

====Readahead====

install readahead
sudo apt-get install readahead

profile your GNOME login (instructions: [http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=565651], then filter out all files under 100kb (guessed number, feel free to experiment).
i filtered out small files since access times on SSD is very good, throughput not.
The linked page states about loading in ''Xsession.d'', forget about that and put your profiled files in ''/etc/readahead/boot'' and ''/etc/readahead/desktop''. This will cause the boot process to profit and the desktop-files to load earlier (before X starts)
to create a ''boot'' file, append "profile" to the GRUB prompt

filter out the small files
boot file:
cat boot | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > boot.sorted
now delete any line below the wanted threshold from the sorted file (i took "dash" as masker with 104kb)
since the boot file is ordered, we want to keep that order
cat boot | while read line; do grep "$line" boot.sorted >> boot.new; done;

same for the desktop file:
cat desktop | xargs -i ls -lk {} | sort -rn -k +5 | awk "{print(\$8)}" > desktop.sorted
remove lines from sorted file...
cat desktop | while read line; do grep "$line" desktop.sorted >> desktop.new; done;

==Fingerprint Reader==

Doesn't currently work as it's an AthenTec and not a Thompson chip.

==Minimalistic installation instructions==

The system you are installing when following these instructions will be a good starting point if you want a clean ubuntu system without all the bloat (which you may of course add yourself). For a simple installation just download and install the desktop version of ubuntu 8.10 (beta)

==Credits==
Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work.
Last Revision 24. April 2009 by User tp42.
[[Category:X301]]

Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

2009-04-24T09:25:10Z

Tp42: â†Created page with 'Please improve on this preliminary effort. ==Overview== Now that Intrepid is out the door, get it while it's fresh! ==Keyboard== pretty much all of the fn+... keys wo...'

Installation instructions for the ThinkPad X301

2009-04-24T09:19:47Z

Tp42: /* Installation Instructions */

[[Category: X301]]
==Installation Instructions==
*[[Installing Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) on an X301]]
* [http://binaryground.com/install-debian-lenny-thinkpad-x301 Install Debian Lenny (testing) on a ThinkPad X301]
*[[Installing openSuSE 11.1 on an X301]]
*[[Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301]]