Installing Arch Linux on a ThinkPad X40 - Revision history

Nuex at 21:04, 3 July 2010

2010-07-03T21:04:22Z

2010-03-07T18:22:36Z

‎Hibernate

2010-03-07T18:21:31Z

‎Suspend

2010-03-07T18:20:39Z

‎Hibernate

2009-02-09T09:51:13Z

‎Postface

2009-01-28T20:55:57Z

‎Enable suspend/hibernate buttons

2009-01-28T20:46:23Z

‎Power Managerment

2009-01-28T20:45:21Z

‎Suspend

2009-01-28T20:34:55Z

‎Suspend

2009-01-28T19:04:20Z

‎Suspend

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 = Wireless =
 My main concern was getting the WIFI to work. As the downloaded ISO also
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 After banging ath5k, the wireless card shows up as ath0. Associating works,
 DHCP doesn't time out. :)
 = Power Management =

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 The drive assigned is the swap partition. The swap partition should be at least big enough to hold your RAM data.
-I also needed to add the ''resume'' hook to the file {{path|/etc/mkinitcpio.conf}}. Then recompile the kernel:
+I also needed to add the ''resume'' hook to the file {{path|/etc/mkinitcpio.conf}} [http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=718892]. Then recompile the kernel:
    mkinitcpio -p kernel26

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 But suspending seems to work even without this.
-The backlight wasn't working when resuming from suspend, but the following fixed it [http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61558]:
+If the backlight is not working when resuming from suspend, the following might fix it [http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=61558]:
    #!/bin/bash

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	The drive assigned is the swap partition. The swap partition should be at least big enough to hold your RAM data.		The drive assigned is the swap partition. The swap partition should be at least big enough to hold your RAM data.
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		+	I also needed to add the ''resume'' hook to the file {{path\|/etc/mkinitcpio.conf}}. Then recompile the kernel:
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		+	mkinitcpio -p kernel26

	=== Enable suspend/hibernate buttons ===		=== Enable suspend/hibernate buttons ===

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 = Postface =
-Don't forget to run:
+Don't forget to run [http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/ALSA]
    {{cmdroot|alsaconf}}

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 === Enable suspend/hibernate buttons ===
-To get the suspend keycombo (fn+f4 and fn+f12) to work, I installed xbindkeys:
+To get the suspend keycombo (fn+f4 and fn+f12) to work, install xbindkeys:
    {{cmdroot|pacman -S xbindkeys}}
-And placed the following in ~/.xbindkeysrc
+And place the following in ~/.xbindkeysrc
    "sudo pm-suspend"
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-The keycode I found out running ''xev'' and looking for the appropriate keycode.
+Adding {{path|xbindkeys}} to a startup script of your windowmanager makesthe keys active. As the name suggests, xbindkeys only works in X.
 = Xorg =

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 DHCP doesn't time out. :)
-= Power Managerment =
+= Power Management =
 The two most important factors of a mobile device are battery life and weight. I'm always a bit disgrunted when an advertisement doesn't mention one or either.

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 Put the script in {{path|/etc/pm/sleep.d/}}. The changing of the virtual terminals with chvt is used to avoid a garbled screen after invoking vbetool in X.
-To get the suspend keycombo (fn+f4) to work, I installed xbindkeys:
+== Hibernate ==
    {{cmdroot|pacman -S xbindkeys}}
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    "sudo pm-suspend"
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 The keycode I found out running ''xev'' and looking for the appropriate keycode.

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    {{cmdroot|pacman -S pm-utils}}
-Add {{bootparm|acpi_sleep|s3_bios}} to the {{path|/boot/grub/menu.lst}}.
+Add {{bootparm|acpi_sleep|s3_bios}} to the file {{path|/boot/grub/menu.lst}} as kernel option.
-I added following modules to the /etc/pm/config.d/config file in the order they are dependant of eachother. The last ones depend on the first modules.
+I added following modules to the {{path|/etc/pm/config.d/config}} file in the order they are dependant of eachother. The last ones depend on the first modules.
    SUSPEND_MODULES="wlan_wep wlan_scan_sta ath_rate_sample ath_pci wlan ath_hal"
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    esac
-Put the script in ''/etc/pm/sleep.d/''. The changing of the virtual terminals with chvt is used to avoid a garbled screen after invoking vbetool in X.
+Put the script in {{path|/etc/pm/sleep.d/}}. The changing of the virtual terminals with chvt is used to avoid a garbled screen after invoking vbetool in X.
 To get the suspend keycombo (fn+f4) to work, I installed xbindkeys:

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	{{cmdroot\|pacman -S pm-utils}}		{{cmdroot\|pacman -S pm-utils}}
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		+	Add {{bootparm\|acpi_sleep\|s3_bios}} to the {{path\|/boot/grub/menu.lst}}.

	I added following modules to the /etc/pm/config.d/config file in the order they are dependant of eachother. The last ones depend on the first modules.		I added following modules to the /etc/pm/config.d/config file in the order they are dependant of eachother. The last ones depend on the first modules.