[ltp] T60, Gutsy, woes!

Phil linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 03 Dec 2007 13:44:22 +0000


And it takes as long to play sound. Press the 'test' button and nothing 
happens, then around 1 minute later, I hear the sound!

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Cheers
Phil

Phil wrote:
> Yay! - got sound working. PCM input was disabled in volume control. 
> Enabled it and now it works.
> Next problem (!) - Skype takes around 1 minute to display the options 
> dialog - no CPU, network or disk activity - it just sits there. Worked 
> fine with Feisty. Tried reinstalling but no difference.
>
> Cheers
> Phil
>
> Phil wrote:
>> Some progress with this. I've now got X working quite happily, and 
>> good support of ATI card using the proprietary drivers. The trick was 
>> to disable glx by creating a file ~/.config/xserver-xgl/disable. Now 
>> I can login without using the Gnome safe session, and I can switch 
>> between internal and external and both, with desktop spanning. 
>> Suspend to ram and resume also seems to work although I've had a 
>> couple of sporadic hangs.
>>
>> Wifi network manager is still rubbish - I was experiencing some 
>> problems with later feisty versions but gutsy seems to have really 
>> screwed it. I have to unload the ipw3945 module and reload it to be 
>> able to connect, and sometimes it takes multiple goes (or even a reboot).
>>
>> Otherwise everything else I've tried works fine except - SOUND. No 
>> sound at all (T60 has "Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High 
>> Definition Audio Controller" as shown by lspci, but I get no sound 
>> whatever I try. There's also nothing mentioned about sound or the 
>> audio controller in the system logs, should there be?
>>
>> Overall I've not seen any advantage in upgrading to gutsy - and quite 
>> a few disadvantages. However, as Robin says, a clean install may be a 
>> better bet. If things don't improve I might give this a go, but I've 
>> got a lot of packages added that I'll need to go through and load 
>> again - and I'm bound to miss something crucial :-(
>>
>> If anyone can suggest something to sort the sound out I'd be very 
>> grateful.
>>
>> Cheers
>> Phil
>>
>>
>> Robin Randhawa wrote:
>>> Hi Phil.
>>>
>>> I'm a T61p Gutsy user so what I have to say doesn't strictly apply to
>>> you but it sounds like I had similar "woes".
>>>
>>> I had basically performed an upgrade from Feisty and was facing problems
>>> with wireless, arbitrary gnome session failures etc. On a tip from a
>>> friend, I bent over backwards and did a proper install of Gutsy this
>>> time around.
>>>
>>> On the whole, the overall Gutsy experience, especially with respect to
>>> Network Manager was way better.It appears that something broke along the
>>> upgrade path which an fresh install seems to have fixed.
>>>
>>> At the moment, I have 2.6.23.9 working well - no wireless issues at all
>>> - had to compile iwl4965 and associated subsystems by hand. So far as I
>>> stick to vesa, I have hibernate working well too. The latest
>>> thinkpad-acpi patches seem to work fine.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Robin
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 11:31 +0000, Phil wrote:
>>>   
>>>> OK, against my better judgement I upgraded my T60 to Gutsy. Main
>>>> reasons were the wireless was getting flaky (used to work like a charm
>>>> but recently been really difficult to get it to connect) and the
>>>> repeated failure to launch update manager because the password entry
>>>> box would not appear.
>>>>
>>>> Upgrade went very smoothly (I'm impressed with the slickness of this)
>>>> but after upgrade I've got the following major issues:
>>>>      1. wireless is screwed
>>>>      2. gnome won't run (but gnome safe session is fine)
>>>>      3. brightness on battery keeps going dim
>>>> Details below. If anyone can help I'd be grateful.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers
>>>> Phil
>>>>
>>>> # uname -a
>>>> Linux phil-t60-linux 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sun Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT
>>>> 2007 i686 GNU/Linux
>>>>
>>>> 1) Wireless is much worse than before. I've got an Intel Corporation
>>>> PRO/Wireless 3945ABG, and browsing on the net there's lots of people
>>>> having problems and not a lot of good solutoins. In the end I got it
>>>> working by removing network manager, and running the following
>>>> (several times, first time didn't work):
>>>>     modprobe -r ipw3945
>>>>     modprobe ipw3945
>>>>     iwlist scan
>>>>     iwconfig eth1 essid <my network essid>
>>>>     dhclient eth1
>>>>
>>>> I'd love to get network manager running again, but most stuff I've
>>>> read seems to imply it's the cause of the problem.
>>>>
>>>> 2) Gnome fails on startup - I can only run in safe session mode.
>>>> Looking in .xsession-errors I see the following:
>>>>         (process:6198): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently
>>>>         running setuid or setgid.
>>>>         This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
>>>>         program instead. For further details, see:
>>>>         
>>>>             http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
>>>>         
>>>>         Refusing to initialize GTK+.
>>>>         
>>>>         (process:6202): Gtk-WARNING **: This process is currently
>>>>         running setuid or setgid.
>>>>         This is not a supported use of GTK+. You must create a helper
>>>>         program instead. For further details, see:
>>>>         
>>>>             http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html
>>>>         
>>>>         Refusing to initialize GTK+.
>>>>         gdm[6195]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string:
>>>>         daemon/DefaultPath=/bin:/usr/bin
>>>>         
>>>>         gdm[6195]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string:
>>>>         daemon/DefaultPath=/bin:/usr/bin
>>>>         gdm[6195]: DEBUG: Attempting to parse key string:
>>>>         daemon/BaseXsession=/etc/gdm/Xsession
>>>>         gdm[6195]: DEBUG:
>>>>         Running /etc/gdm/Xsession /usr/bin/gnome-session for pshotton
>>>>         on :0
>>>>         /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session setup...
>>>>         Checking for nVidia: not present.
>>>>         Starting Xgl with options:  -accel xv:pbuffer -accel
>>>>         glx:pbuffer -nolisten tcp -fullscreen -br +xinerama
>>>>         
>>>>         Fatal server error:
>>>>         no screens found
>>>>         XIO:  fatal IO error 104 (Connection reset by peer) on X
>>>>         server ":1.0"^M
>>>>               after 0 requests (0 known processed) with 0 events
>>>>         remaining.^M
>>>>         rm: cannot remove `/tmp/.X1-lock': No such file or directory
>>>>         can't lock memory: Cannot allocate memoryWARNING: not using
>>>>         secure memory for passwords
>>>>         cannot open display:
>>>>         Run '/usr/bin/seahorse-agent --help' to see a full list of
>>>>         available command line options.
>>>>
>>>> safe session works fine, but I'm not sure what's blowing me up. XGL?
>>>> What should I do about this?
>>>> I'm using the ATI fglrx driver (latest version pulled of AMD's site) -
>>>> I've got an  ATI Technologies Inc Radeon Mobility X1400
>>>>
>>>> 3) On battery, the display brightness drops very low (ignoring the
>>>> gnome power manager setting). If I up the brightness using the
>>>> keyboard Fn-Home key it gets brighter, but after a few minutes
>>>> something kicks it back down again.
>>>>
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