Installing Fedora 12 on a ThinkPad X40 - Revision history

Tonko at 14:43, 13 April 2010

2010-04-13T14:43:52Z

2010-03-22T13:03:17Z

‎Success Chart - Out of the box experience

2010-03-01T16:22:08Z

‎ThinkPad Extra keys

2010-02-15T11:24:43Z

‎Success Chart - Out of the box experience

2010-02-15T11:24:12Z

‎X Server - Intel 855GM

2010-02-15T11:20:26Z

‎Success Chart - Out of the box experience

2010-02-15T10:33:22Z

‎ThinkPad Extra keys

2010-02-15T10:32:51Z

‎Success Chart - Out of the box experience

2009-12-23T16:17:51Z

‎Untested on Fedora 12

2009-12-04T20:57:13Z

‎Success Chart - Out of the box experience

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 == Success Chart - Out of the box experience ==

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 | Ethernet || {{Cyes}} ||
 |-
-| Modem || {{Cno}} || Requires closed-source driver. Install the slmodem rpm from the rpmfusion-nonfree repository, edit /etc/sysconfig/slmodem and set INTERFACE=ALSA and ALSA_DEVICE=hw:1,0 and optionally the country.
+| Modem || {{Cno}} || Requires closed-source driver. Install the slmodem rpm from the rpmfusion-nonfree repository, edit /etc/sysconfig/slmodem and set INTERFACE=alsa and ALSA_DEVICE=modem:1 and optionally the country.
 |-
 | Serial || {{Cyes}} || Requires dock

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 | Fn-PgUp || thinklight || - || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} || no default OSD. Install the tpb rpm as a workaround.
 |-
-| Fn-Space || zoom || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cyes|text=}} HAL || {{Cno}} || Known Xorg limitation, scheduled to be fixed in Xorg 1.8 with the new XKB2 extension in 2Q 2010
+| Fn-Space || zoom || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cyes|text=}} HAL || {{Cno}} || Known Xorg limitation, scheduled to be fixed with the new XKB2 extension, whenever that may be.
 |-
 | VolumeUp || Volume Up || - || {{Cno}} || {{Cyes}} || no default OSD. Install the tpb rpm as a workaround.

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 |rowspan=2|Power Management
-| Software Suspend (hibernate) || {{Cno}} || Works after installing updates
+| Software Suspend (hibernate) || {{Cyes}} || Works after installing updates
 |-
 | Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) || {{Cno}} || Seems like it works, but after resume you get a blinking cursor, switching to another VT works, but you cannot login. This seems to be due to everything segfaulting [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540375 bugzilla]

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	Compiz seems to work (needs more testing)		Compiz seems to work (needs more testing)
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		+	There are some i915_handle_error messages in syslog, and briefly displayed on boot, but they do not seem to have any further effect. [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=552395 bugzilla].

	=== WiFi ===		=== WiFi ===

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 | Software Suspend (hibernate) || {{Cno}} || Works after installing updates
 |-
-| Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) || {{Cno}} || Seems like it works, but after resume you get a blinking cursor, switching to another VT works, but you cannot login. This seems to be due to a segfault (segfault at 7a ip 00868006 sp b7519c1b error 6 in libaudit.so.1.0.0[868000+18000]).
+| Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) || {{Cno}} || Seems like it works, but after resume you get a blinking cursor, switching to another VT works, but you cannot login. This seems to be due to everything segfaulting [https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=540375 bugzilla]
 |-
 |colspan=2| Audio || {{Cyes}} ||

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 | Fn-F3 || lock screen || thinkpad_acpi|| {{Cyes|text=}} HAL|| {{Cyes}} ||
 |-
-| Fn-F4 || suspend || acpi button|| {{Cyes|text=}} HAL|| {{Cno}} || button works, but suspend fails with LVDS off on resume
+| Fn-F4 || suspend || acpi button|| {{Cyes|text=}} HAL|| {{Cyes}} || works after installing updates
 |-
 | Fn-F5 || wireless || thinkpad_acpi || {{Cyes|text=}} HAL|| {{Cno}} || causes HAL 'wlan' event, but has no further effect.

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 = Untested on Fedora 12 =
+* Atheros WiFi
 [[Category:X40]][[Category:Fedora]]

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 |-
 |rowspan=2|Power Management
-| Software Suspend (hibernate) || {{Cno}} || LVDS remains off after resume
+| Software Suspend (hibernate) || {{Cno}} || LVDS remains off after resume (might be a backlight issue)
 |-
 | Suspend to Memory (ACPI sleep) || {{Cno}} || Seems like it works, after some screen corruption on resume you get gnome-screensaver asking for a password, but you cannot login. After some debugging I found this is because of a segfault (segfault at 7a ip 00868006 sp b7519c1b error 6 in libaudit.so.1.0.0[868000+18000]).