Installing Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Tribe 3 on a ThinkPad T61
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Opening Notes:
1) This is written for Tribe 3, as development moves forward many of the items listed here will (hopefully) no longer be necessary or no longer apply.
2) Use the Alternative Installer, the Desktop installer installs but fails to boot
3) The system is not incredibly stable, things crash at least once per session so if you are look for stability stay with Feisty. ***This has changed lately and things are a lot more stable, disabling Compiz helped and most the random crashes seemed to have cleared up the past week.***
Hard Disk Controller
When the system boots hit F1 to enter the Bios, select Config->Serial ATA (SATA) and set the SATA Controller mode option to "Compatibility".
Video:
Intel:
Must install using the alternate CD or the regular CD and hit F4 to change VGA settings to 1024x768x32 and use regular install.
Intel GMX3100 worked flawlessly at 1200x1024 resolution. Have not yet tried the higher resolution.
Nvidia:
On July 10th the latest nv 2D driver was released that supported the 140m. It should be in the repo's soon: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/gutsy-changes/2007-July/004577.html Once this makes it into the Daily CD's you should be able to install via the Live CD and the instructions below will not be required.
X will fail to start for users running Nvidia cards. Boot into recovery mode and type:
# dkpg-reconfigure xserver-xorg
Accept all the defaults except change the driver from NV to VESA
Type # telinit 3
to boot into a GUI and use Synaptic to install Build-Essentials
Go to Nvidia.com and download the latest Nvidia Drivers to your desktop
When the download completes hit Ctrl-F1 to drop to a console. Login and type:
# sudo /etc/init.d/gdm stop
Then type:
# cd Desktop
# sudo sh NVIDIA-Linux-x86-100.14.11-pkg1.run
If the file you download is newer that 100.14.11 make sure you modify the command appropriately
Reboot:
# sudo shutdown -r now
After Rebooting Gnome should start normally
Wireless:
The Atheros card should be supported by the drivers built into Gutsy.
The Intel a/b/g/n (IPW4965) card requires the iwlwifi drivers from Intel:
Install the necessary prerequisites and get the directories symlinked right.
sudo apt-get install build-essential linux-headers-`uname -r` sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-`uname -r` /lib/modules/`uname -r`/source
Download and install the latest mac80211 from the 8.x.x branch. 8.0.2 is the latest as of this edit. The 9.x.x branch is currently experimental.
wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/mac80211/downloads/mac80211-8.0.2.tgz tar -xzf mac80211-8.0.2.tgz cd mac80211-8.0.2/ sudo make patch_kernel cd ..
Download and install the latest iwlwifi from the 0.0.x branch. 0.0.42 is the latest as of this edit. The 0.1.x branch is currently experimental, but is necessary if you need to use 802.11n. These instructions may or may not work if you want to use 0.1.x.
wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-0.0.42.tgz tar -xzf iwlwifi-0.0.42.tgz cd iwlwifi-0.0.42/ make sudo make install cd ..
Download and install the latest 4965 ucode.
wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17.tgz tar -xzf iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17.tgz cd iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.17/ sudo cp iwlwifi-4965.ucode /lib/firmware/`uname -r`
Make sure the hardware wifi switch is on before doing this.
sudo modprobe iwl4965
After that, you should simply be able to connect to wireless networks using Gnome's network manager.
Audio:
Audio does not work out of the box, download and install the latest version of Alsa from CVS using the instructions here: http://alsa.opensrc.org/index.php/Quick_Install