[ltp] Ubuntu Dapper Drake working fine with Thinkpad T60

[Alfredo Matos]

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Hi, thanks,


One issue. After those setups the laptop feels very unresponsive (saving
a file with gvim takes about a second; openning new windows takes a lot
longer; etc).

Do you experience this, or is it just me ?


BR,

Alfredo


Sean Kelley wrote:
> Hi Alfredo,
> 
> 
> I have universe, multiverse, and backports enabled in my sources.list
> for dapper.  I have attached my sources.list
> 
> On 6/17/06, Alfredo Matos <alfredo.matos@digitalself.org> wrote:
>> Hi, thanks a lot for the tips, but some questions:
>>
>> > sudo apt-get install sysfs
>>
>> You mean sudo apt-get install sysfsutils right ?
> 
> Yes, my mistake, really meant sysfsutils.
> 
>>
>> > sudo apt-get install smartctl
>>
>> here is more like: sudo apt-get install smartmontools, right ?
> 
> Sorry, you are correct.  I was working from memory.
> 
>>
>> And one more question, could your add a few comments on the xorg.conf
>> file, so that i know what is relevant ? Thank would be nice for
>> comprehension purposes, at least :).
> 
> The xorg.conf that I am using was autogenerated by OpenSuse 10.1.
> Since it worked so well in OpenSuse with my T60, I just re-used it.
> 
>>
>> The last issue, could you re-attach the sysfs.conf file ? It didn't make
>> it on the last email (at least on my side).
> 
> Done.
> 
> Make sure that you use only use  linux-image-2.6.15-23-686
> 
> There is a bug report fliled with  linux-image-2.6.15-25-686.
> 
> Sean
>>
>>
>> Best regards, and thanks again for the useful info !
>>
>> Alfredo Matos
>>
>>
>>
>> Sean Kelley wrote:
>> > having gotten things working well with OpenSuse 10.1, I recently
>> > installed Ubuntu Dapper Drake 6.04 on my new T60 Thinkpad.  Overall, I
>> > got everything working well.  no need for anything beyond acpi for
>> > power management really.  Further, there was no need to patch a
>> > kernel.  Here are the steps that I took.
>> >
>> > kernel
>> > These laptops are dual core, so let's get the 686-SMP flavor of the
>> > kernel. sudo apt-get install linux-686-smp
>> >
>> > video
>> > Dapper has the latest compatible ATI drivers so just use apt. sudo
>> > apt-get install xorg-driver-fglrx fglrx-control
>> >
>> > I have also attached my xorg.conf file,
>> >
>> > networking
>> > I recommend using the new network manager, it too is available
>> > through apt. sudo apt-get install network-manager-gnome
>> >
>> > You will want to edit your /etc/network/interface file and comment out
>> > all interfaces except for the loopback.
>> >
>> > auto lo
>> > iface lo inet loopback
>> >
>> > #auto eth0
>> > #iface eth0 inet dhcp
>> >
>> > #auto eth1
>> > #iface eth1 inet dhcp
>> > #wireless-essid Think Different
>> >
>> > #auto eth2
>> > #iface eth2 inet dhcp
>> >
>> > #auto ath0
>> > #iface ath0 inet dhcp
>> >
>> > #auto wlan0
>> > #iface wlan0 inet dhcp
>> >
>> >
>> > Power Management
>> > Now that I had both video and networking going smoothly, I decided to
>> > tackle power management. First off, I am sticking with ACPI. It works,
>> > as you will soon find out. You can enable support for sleep in a few
>> > simple steps:
>> >
>> > 1. Uncomment the line ACPI_SLEEP=true in /etc/default/acpi-support
>> >
>> > 2. Assign the location of your swap partition to the resume variable
>> > in your default kernel options. Also set your acpi_sleep variable to
>> > s3_bios. All of this is added to the # kopt line of your
>> > /boot/grub/mnu.lst file. Remove the splash variable from the line.
>> > This is important. Here is what my kopt line looks like. Remember to
>> > leave it commented out.
>> >
>> > # kopt=root=/dev/sda6 ro resume=/dev/sda5 acpi_sleep=s3_bios
>> >
>> >
>> > 3. Next I want to make use of sysfs to ensure that my cpu scaling mode
>> > is set to my preferences.
>> >
>> > sudo apt-get install sysfs
>> >
>> > I have attached my sysfs.conf file for you to reference.
>> >
>> > 4. It will be necessary to get laptop-mode up and running according to
>> > my needs.
>> > sudo apt-get install laptop-mode
>> >
>> > 5. You will also want to install smartctl for monitoring your drive
>> > along with some power-management.
>> > sudo apt-get install smartctl
>> >
>> > 6. I then modified my /etc/rc.local to make use of these utilities.
>> >
>> > /usr/sbin/smartctl -s on -d ata /dev/sda
>> > /sbin/hdparm -S 1 /dev/sda
>> > /usr/bin/touch /var/run/laptop-mode-enabled
>> > /usr/sbin/laptop_mode start
>> >
>> > That's it.  Video, networking, and power management work like a charm.
>> >
>> > Sean
>>
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