[ltp] T60 64bit

[Ilias Stergiou]

A small correction: the X option is -noacpi as shown in the option:
command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -audit 0 -noacpi
Ilias

Ilias Stergiou wrote:
> I have a T60p (2613hqu) running ubuntu 64 bit 6.10
>
> I present herein my success story and how I got there in hope it will 
> help you and others. In the areas I failed I would appreciate any 
> hints. Also I would be happy to contribute to the community efforts 
> (by testing).
>
> I managed to boot most linux distribution using the -noapic option 
> during boot. You also need to add this to grub after the installation, 
> to be used in all boots.
>
> Touchpad and the "red dot" (I do not know how it is called) works fine 
> without any configuration.
>
> X used to crash when using  brightness up/down (this means to me that 
> it is an Xorg problem not acpi related) but starting X with option 
> -noapic resolved this. For this in Ubuntu you need to update 
> /etc/gdm/gdm.conf-custom as follows:
> command=/usr/X11R6/bin/X -br -audit 0 -noacpi
>
> FN+Home gives me 2 acpi events:
>
> ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00001010
> video LCD0 00000086 00000000
>
> but Fn+End gives me no acpi events. Still both work fine, brightness 
> is increased and decreased (!?!?).
>
> Volume up and down works fine.
>
> Sleep does not work. OK, it works but it does not resume. (any hints?)
>
> Hibernate works most of the times (?!?!). When it fails the "moon" led 
> is blinking, the monitor is on (and brightness up/down works), and 
> some times I can switch terminals with Alt+Ctrl+F1.
>
> Sound works fine without any configuration.
>
> The ATI FireGL works fine (including 3D) using the latest fglrx driver 
> in the ubuntu distribution.
> I have failed to upgrade to the latest proprietary version (released 
> Dec, 2006) since it  was working but video playback failed crashing X. 
> (to resolve this I had to use mplayer -vo gl2 instead of -vo  Xv). I 
> removed this version since I do not want a driver that is crashing my X.
> (BTW, in fgl_glxgears using GLX_SGIX_pbuffer is 500 frames per second 
> good performance for a laptop graphics card? It sounds poor to me 
> since I have seen claims for 2000 FPS in laptops)
> Using the external monitor was working fine following ubuntu 
> installation but I messed it up testing (installing/uninstalling) 
> drivers. Now I can change monitors using the aticonfig command.
>
> The wireless (atheros adapter) seems to work fine (I have not 
> connected to any networks yet, but managed to scan many using kismet :-)
>
> Modem works fine (I have a /dev/modem device and I can send at 
> commands to the modem). I had to install the linuxant driver.
>
> The ubuntu splash screen was not working fine (bad resolution) but I 
> got it fixed by updating the source code and compiling.
>
> My bios version is:
>        Version: 79ETC6WW (2.06 )
>        Release Date: 11/20/2006
>
> Ilias
>
> Michael Gaber wrote:
>> Hi
>>
>> has anybody succeeded in installing a 64bit linux (preferrably 
>> gentoo) onto a t60 with the core2duo processor?
>>
>> i currently have problems with booting any livecd, gentoo will only 
>> do with acpi=off otherwise it will hang after
>> "ACPI: ECDT found"
>> and kubuntu x64 won't boot at all
>>
>> Greets michael
>
>