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Norman Ramsey: explain how to get brightness keys to adjust backlighting

2009-02-13T23:52:45Z

explain how to get brightness keys to adjust backlighting

Lwi: /* e1000e eeprom issue */

2008-11-15T14:18:06Z

‎e1000e eeprom issue

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Bse at 15:45, 9 November 2008

2008-11-09T15:45:11Z

Norman Ramsey: /* X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures, most of which are worked around */

2008-10-10T21:30:51Z

‎X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures, most of which are worked around

Norman Ramsey: /* X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures, most of which are worked around */

2008-10-10T21:20:32Z

‎X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures, most of which are worked around

Norman Ramsey: /* X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures */

2008-10-10T21:15:41Z

‎X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures

Norman Ramsey: /* X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures */

2008-10-04T02:52:31Z

‎X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures

Norman Ramsey: New section: X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures

2008-10-02T18:07:06Z

New section: X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures

Fritz at 00:56, 29 April 2008

2008-04-29T00:56:40Z

Fritz at 16:11, 27 April 2008

2008-04-27T16:11:18Z

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 * Ethernet won't run at 1000MB/s.  Attempts to force it using ethtool lock the machine
 * I had the same suspend problem an earlier user supported.  Adding the e1000e driver in /etc/pm as other user described fixes this.
-* No control over backlight using the hotkeys, although tpb is installed and claims to be changing brightness.  Interestingly, xbacklight can change brightness.  Would like to get this function onto keys.
+* To control backlight using the hotkeys, calling xbacklight on the command line works, and you can use xmodmap to map the keycodes to XF86KbdBrightnessDown and XF86KbdBrightnessUp, which you can then tell your window manager mean it should call xbacklight.  ''Don't'' try to use tpb callbacks to call xbacklight, because calling xbacklight apparently generates events which makes tpb think buttons have been pressed, which sends the machine into a horrid cycle of backlight changes.
 * Getting wifi up is slightly elaborate. I downloaded the firmware-iwlwifi package from Debian, but attempting to bring the wifi up bricked the machine with a blinking CapsLock light.  After rebooting, wifi seems to work.
 * I had trouble with sound in Skype until I realized I needed to use alsamixer to set the input to the ''internal'' mic not just the mic

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		+	== e1000e eeprom issue ==
		+	I was affected by the eeprom corruption issue of kernels 2.6.27-rc*. Could anyone with a 6478-14G please post their eeprom contents so I can find out which bytes have been changed? The first six bytes are the MAC addres, you can remove it if you want to. You can get them with
		+	ethtool -e eth0
		+	Thank you very much! --[[User:Bse\|Bse]] 16:45, 9 November 2008 (CET)
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		+	== First Report ==
	I just bought one of these (model 6478-14G) and have been playing with Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 6 on it. Thus far:		I just bought one of these (model 6478-14G) and have been playing with Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 6 on it. Thus far:

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	* No control over backlight using the hotkeys, although tpb is installed and claims to be changing brightness. Interestingly, xbacklight can change brightness. Would like to get this function onto keys.		* No control over backlight using the hotkeys, although tpb is installed and claims to be changing brightness. Interestingly, xbacklight can change brightness. Would like to get this function onto keys.
	* Getting wifi up is slightly elaborate. I downloaded the firmware-iwlwifi package from Debian, but attempting to bring the wifi up bricked the machine with a blinking CapsLock light. After rebooting, wifi seems to work.		* Getting wifi up is slightly elaborate. I downloaded the firmware-iwlwifi package from Debian, but attempting to bring the wifi up bricked the machine with a blinking CapsLock light. After rebooting, wifi seems to work.
		+	* I had trouble with sound in Skype until I realized I needed to use alsamixer to set the input to the ''internal'' mic not just the mic

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 * I had the same suspend problem an earlier user supported.  Adding the e1000e driver in /etc/pm as other user described fixes this.
 * No control over backlight using the hotkeys, although tpb is installed and claims to be changing brightness.  Interestingly, xbacklight can change brightness.  Would like to get this function onto keys.
-* Haven't yet figured out how to get wifi to work.  I downloaded the firmware-iwlwifi package from Debian, but attempting to bring the wifi up bricked the machine with a blinking CapsLock light.  After rebooting, wifi seems to work.
+* Getting wifi up is slightly elaborate. I downloaded the firmware-iwlwifi package from Debian, but attempting to bring the wifi up bricked the machine with a blinking CapsLock light.  After rebooting, wifi seems to work.

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 Kernel 2.6.23 allowed for S3 mode (suspend to RAM) with the same issue as above (would wake up immediately if ethernet module was not unloaded first). An update to 2.6.24 removed S3 capability altogether, even with acpi_bios=s3_bios. I also noticed that thinkpad_acpi no longer shows a brightness entry in /proc/acpi/ibm unless you explicity pass brightness_enable=1 to the module. Has anyone tried 2.6.24 or 2.6.25 with any luck? --[[User:fritz|fritz]] 8:56, 25 April 2008
-== X300 with Debian Lenny  --- a handful of failures ==
+== X300 with Debian Lenny  --- a handful of failures, most of which are worked around ==
 Using the latest Debian Lenny kernel, I had a host of problems:
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 * I had the same suspend problem an earlier user supported.  Adding the e1000e driver in /etc/pm as other user described fixes this.
 * No control over backlight using the hotkeys, although tpb is installed and claims to be changing brightness.  Interestingly, xbacklight can change brightness.  Would like to get this function onto keys.
-* Haven't yet figured out how to get wifi to work.  I downloaded the firmware-iwlwifi package from Debian, but attempting to bring the wifi up bricked the machine with a blinking CapsLock light.  Have rebooted but not yet tackled wifi again.
+* Haven't yet figured out how to get wifi to work.  I downloaded the firmware-iwlwifi package from Debian, but attempting to bring the wifi up bricked the machine with a blinking CapsLock light.  After rebooting, wifi seems to work.

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	Kernel 2.6.23 allowed for S3 mode (suspend to RAM) with the same issue as above (would wake up immediately if ethernet module was not unloaded first). An update to 2.6.24 removed S3 capability altogether, even with acpi_bios=s3_bios. I also noticed that thinkpad_acpi no longer shows a brightness entry in /proc/acpi/ibm unless you explicity pass brightness_enable=1 to the module. Has anyone tried 2.6.24 or 2.6.25 with any luck? --[[User:fritz\|fritz]] 8:56, 25 April 2008		Kernel 2.6.23 allowed for S3 mode (suspend to RAM) with the same issue as above (would wake up immediately if ethernet module was not unloaded first). An update to 2.6.24 removed S3 capability altogether, even with acpi_bios=s3_bios. I also noticed that thinkpad_acpi no longer shows a brightness entry in /proc/acpi/ibm unless you explicity pass brightness_enable=1 to the module. Has anyone tried 2.6.24 or 2.6.25 with any luck? --[[User:fritz\|fritz]] 8:56, 25 April 2008
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		+	== X300 with Debian Lenny --- a handful of failures ==
		+
		+	Using the latest Debian Lenny kernel, I had a host of problems:
		+	* Ethernet won't run at 1000MB/s. Attempts to force it using ethtool lock the machine
		+	* I had the same suspend problem an earlier user supported. I'll try removing the eth0 driver.
		+	* No control over backlight---any idea how the Ubuntu Hardy release kernel is different from Debian lenny and fixes this?
		+	* Haven't yet figured out how to get wifi to work.

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     * This turns out to be the ethernet driver failing to suspend. Removing it before suspending works fine and can be done by putting SUSPEND_MODULES="e1000" in /etc/pm/config.d/local
   * Backlight control (although this is probably a recently introduced kernel bug in Hardy, which should be reverted before release)
   * WiFi LED
     * [2008-04-24] Wifi LED works fine with 2.6.24 and thinkpad_acpi - fritz

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   * DVD drive
   * Camera (although I have [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/200990 managed] to make the AVC kernel driver oops)
   * Hibernate (works properly with bios 1.02a)
   * RF killswitch (turns off wifi and bluetooth devices)