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Revision as of 03:58, 29 June 2007

Opening Notes:

1) This is written for Tribe 2, 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

Hard Disk Controller

When the system boots hit F1 to enter the Bios and under Config->Hard Disk-> Set SATA to compatibility mode

Video:

Intel:

Systems with Intel cards should have no issues

Help needed
Can anyone with the Intel X3100 Video confirm this?

Nvidia:

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 the following packages:

1) Install Build-Essentials

2) Remove xserver-xorg-video-nv

ATTENTION!
This will also remove xserver-xorg-video-all and may cause issues down the road as Gutsy development proceeds, I recommend checking the change-log for xserver-xorg-video-nv and see if it adds support for the newer Nvidia chipsets and then reinstall xserver-xorg-video-all

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

NOTE!
With each new Kernel release this process must be repeated

Wireless:

The Atheros card should be supported by the drivers built into Gutsy.

Help needed
Can someone with an Atheros card confirm this?

The Intel a/b/g/n (IPW4965) card requires the iwlwifi drivers from Intel:

NOTE!
As the release process moves forward the Kernel will be updated so make sure to update the paths below?
NOTE!
With each new Kernel release this process must be repeated

# mkdir wireless # cd wireless

# wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/mac80211/downloads/mac80211-8.0.1.tgz

# tar xzf mac80211-8.0.1.tgz

# cd mac80211-8.0.1.tgz # sudo ln -s /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.22-7 /lib/modules/2.6.22-7-generic/source # sudo make patch_kernel

# wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-0.0.34.tgz # tar xzf iwlwifi-0.0.34.tgz # cd ../iwlwifi-0.0.34/ # make # sudo make install

# wget http://intellinuxwireless.org/iwlwifi/downloads/iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.15.tgz # tar xzf iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.15.tgz # sudo cp ../iwlwifi-4965-ucode-4.44.15/iwlwifi-4965.ucode # /lib/firmware/iwlwifi-4965.ucode

# sudo modprobe iwl4965

Audio:

Audio does not work.

This Howto http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_7.04_%28Feisty_Fawn%29_on_a_ThinkPad_T61 describes the same issue under Feisty. Alsa 1.0.14 with some patches seem to fix it. I have not attempted this yet.

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