Install Debian Wheezy on a Thinkpad T530 - Revision history

Thearchduke: /* Out-of-the-box Stats */

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‎Out-of-the-box Stats

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‎Out-of-the-box Stats

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‎Hardware Tweaks

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‎Hardware Tweaks

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‎Hardware Tweaks

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‎Out-of-the-box Stats

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‎Wireless - 6300AGN

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 | Volume up/down buttons || Works out-of-box
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-| Volume mute button || Needs Tweaks
+| Volume mute button || Works out-of-box
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 | Optical drive || Works out-of-box

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	There are more options than this, but this will at least do vertical scrolling. You will need to restart x (or just reboot) for this to work.		There are more options than this, but this will at least do vertical scrolling. You will need to restart x (or just reboot) for this to work.
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		+	[[Category:T530]]

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 | Touchpoint || Works out-of-box
 |-
-| Touchpoint Scrolling || Needs Tweaks
+| Touchpoint Scrolling || Needs Tweaks; See below
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 | Trackpad || Works out-of-box

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	# run "sudo apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi"		# run "sudo apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi"
	# reboot your system		# reboot your system
		+	=== Touchpoint Scrolling ===
		+	Create the file "/usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad.conf" and make its contents the following:
		+
		+	Section "InputClass"
		+	Identifier "Trackpoint Wheel Emulation"
		+	MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint\|DualPoint Stick\|Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint"
		+	MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
		+	Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
		+	Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
		+	Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
		+	Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
		+	Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
		+	EndSection
		+
		+	There are more options than this, but this will at least do vertical scrolling. You will need to restart x (or just reboot) for this to work.

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 == Hardware Tweaks ==
 === NVIDIA Graphics ===
 To run the NVIDIA card alongside the built-in Intel Graphics chip, I used bumblebee from wheezy backports
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 For both, to run a program using the nvidia chip, you should prepend "prumusrun" to the command.  EG, if you want to run glxgears you should run "primusrun glxgears"
 You can edit menu entries to include that as well so you don't have to run everything from a terminal emulator.

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	# run "sudo apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi"		# run "sudo apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi"
	# reboot your system		# reboot your system
		+	=== NVIDIA Graphics ===
		+	To run the NVIDIA card alongside the built-in Intel Graphics chip, I used bumblebee from wheezy backports
		+
		+	add the file /etc/apt/sources.list.d/backports.list
		+	deb $(your debian mirror)/debian/ wheezy-backports main
		+
		+	Option 1 (graphical):
		+	# Go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager
		+	# Click the "Reload" button to pull in the backports list
		+	# install the bumblebee-nvidia package (this will pull in the nvidia driver as well as bumblebee)
		+	# reboot your system
		+
		+	Option 2 (command line):
		+	# run "sudo apt-get update"
		+	# run "sudo apt-get install bumblebee-nvidia"
		+	# reboot your system
		+
		+
		+	For both, to run a program using the nvidia chip, you should prepend "prumusrun" to the command. EG, if you want to run glxgears you should run "primusrun glxgears"
		+	You can edit menu entries to include that as well so you don't have to run everything from a terminal emulator.

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 | FN-F8 (Brightness down) || Works out-of-box
 |-
-| FN-F9 (Brightness up) || Needs tweaks
+| FN-F9 (Brightness up) || Works out-of-box
 |-
 | FN-Space (Thinklight/keyboard backlight) || Works out-of-box
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 | SD/MMC Memory card reader || Works out-of-box
 |}
 == Hardware Tweaks ==
 === Wireless - 6300AGN ===

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	\| SD/MMC Memory card reader \|\| Works out-of-box		\| SD/MMC Memory card reader \|\| Works out-of-box
	\|}		\|}
		+	== Hardware Tweaks ==
		+	=== Wireless - 6300AGN ===
		+	This should work for any of the Intel cards that came in the T61p, but I just have the 4965 to test with.
		+	Note: this requites that you are connected to the internet, the on-board Ethernet Adapter works out of the box.
		+
		+	Option 1 (graphical):
		+	# Go to System -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager
		+	# search for "firmware-iwlwifi" in the package manager
		+	# select that package and install it
		+	# reboot your system
		+
		+	Option 2 (command line):
		+	# run "sudo apt-get install firmware-iwlwifi"
		+	# reboot your system

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 == Out-of-the-box Stats==
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 | Fingerprint Reader || Needs tweaks
 |-
-| ACPI - Suspend to Disk (Hibernate) || Needs tweaks
+| ACPI - Suspend to Disk (Hibernate) || Untested
 |-
 | Mini Display port out || Untested
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 | Thinkvantage Button || Untested
 |-
-| FN-Arrows (Media Controls) || Untested
+| Wireless - 6300AGN || Needs tweaks; See below
 |-
 | Front wireless killswitch || Works out-of-box