[ltp] ThinkPad T520 first experiences
Martin Steigerwald
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 21 May 2011 10:54:46 +0200
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Hi!
Ok, so my first experiences with the ThinkPad T520 and Intel SSD 320:
I really like that 15.4 inch FHD display with 1920x1080 pixels. Its very=20
bright and colorful! And crystal clear, I think due to the high dpi. Its=20
143x143 according to the displaysize I measured.
root@merkaba:/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d# cat display.conf=20
Section "Device"
Identifier "Grafikkern"
# Monitore
Option "Monitor-LVDS1" "Notebook-Display"
EndSection
Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Notebook-Display"
DisplaySize 340 192
EndSection
Great display. Intel HD 3000 graphics works out of the box with Debian=20
unstable, I have some X.org packages from experimental, but I think they=20
are not required, the intel driver is from sid.
I am currently using 2.6.39-rc7 which feels a bit snappier, but I am not=20
sure about it. After some hibernation cycles I had some i915 hang messages=
=20
with 2.6.38 where the gfx performance with KDE kwin compositing crawled.
root@merkaba:/var/log# zgrep hangcheck syslog*
syslog.1:May 20 18:06:57 merkaba kernel: [ 5214.465646]=20
[drm:i915_hangcheck_ring_idle] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... blt ring=
=20
idle [waiting on 108277, at 108277], missed IRQ?
[...]
[drm:i915_hangcheck_ring_idle] *ERROR* Hangcheck timer elapsed... blt ring=
=20
idle [waiting on 947907, at 947907], missed IRQ?
root@merkaba:/var/log#=20
Didn=B4t see these with 2.6.39-rc7 so far *knock wood*.
Otherwise than that Sandybridge gfx works without any visible glitches.=20
Compositing is at 50-60 fps in KWin, except for desktop cube where it is=20
at about 25-30 according to KWin itself. Well its full hd.
The Intel SSD 320 is just *awesome*. I have seen peek values of about=20
270000 block out in vmstat 1 while rsync=B4ing the data from my backup driv=
e=20
via eSATA to it. Starting LibreOffice, Amarok, Digikam, KMail is quite=20
snappy. Digikam takes some time but it is way faster initialized than on=20
my ThinkPad T42 with wd 320 GB IDE harddisk.
Sound is working out of the box as well, also with PulseAudio. The=20
speakers sound crystal clear and quite good IMHO.
Hibernation is working out of the box and seems to use userspace software=20
suspend by default on Debian. I think its done via pm-utils. Suspend seems=
=20
to work too.
Battery time seems to be okay:
root@merkaba:~# while true; do date; acpi -b; sleep 120 ; done
Sa 21. Mai 09:17:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 97%, 03:32:22 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:19:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 96%, 03:52:30 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:21:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 95%, 03:31:42 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:23:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 93%, 03:08:53 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:25:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 92%, 03:24:06 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:27:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 91%, 03:04:44 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:29:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 89%, 03:07:29 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:31:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 88%, 03:04:33 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:33:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 87%, 03:04:15 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:35:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 86%, 02:52:17 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:37:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 84%, 02:41:59 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:39:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 83%, 02:49:35 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:41:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 82%, 02:57:30 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:43:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 80%, 02:41:55 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:45:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 79%, 02:45:25 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:47:11 CEST 2011
Until here its with display at full brightness. Now I reduce to about 2/5=20
of the slider in the applet in KDE:
Battery 0: Discharging, 78%, 05:00:11 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:49:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 78%, 03:47:51 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:51:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 77%, 04:23:19 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:53:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 76%, 04:26:24 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:55:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 76%, 04:34:20 remaining
And here to 1/5:
Sa 21. Mai 09:57:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 75%, 04:50:15 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 09:59:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 74%, 04:37:08 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 10:01:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 73%, 04:46:21 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 10:03:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 73%, 03:57:24 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 10:05:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 72%, 03:53:31 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 10:07:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 71%, 02:58:08 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 10:09:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 70%, 03:44:46 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 10:11:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 69%, 03:41:07 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 10:13:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 69%, 04:01:25 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 10:15:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 68%, 03:12:45 remaining
Sa 21. Mai 10:17:11 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Discharging, 67%, 03:31:53 remaining
^C
Now charging again:
root@merkaba:~# while true; do date; acpi -b; sleep 120 ; done
Sa 21. Mai 10:18:07 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Charging, 66%, charging at zero rate - will never fully charge.
Seems the battery will not be charging up to its maximum capacity?
^C
root@merkaba:~# while true; do date; acpi -b; sleep 120 ; done
Sa 21. Mai 10:18:32 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Charging, 67%, 01:59:37 until charged
Sa 21. Mai 10:20:32 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Charging, 68%, 00:59:33 until charged
Sa 21. Mai 10:22:32 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Charging, 69%, 00:38:20 until charged
Sa 21. Mai 10:24:32 CEST 2011
Battery 0: Charging, 71%, 00:32:18 until charged
ThinkPad SMAPI did not work. It said something along:
no embedded controller found
I can=B4 t compile it for 2.6.39-rc7 debian kernel package as there are no=
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headers available for it. But I see there are 2.6.39 packages available=20
now, so I will try again with that.
ThinkPad keys work:
=2D Fn-Pos1, Fn-End: brightness
=2D Fn-Page up: thinklight
=2D Fn-F4: suspend
ThinkPad keys that do nothing:
=2D Fn-F12: hibernate
=2D Fn-F2: lock symbol, whats this one meant for?
=2D Fn-F3: battery plus symbol, whats this one meant for?
=2D Fn-F6: webcam, ditto?
=2D Fn-F7: externel screen
=2D Fn-F8: whats this?
Bluetooth switch works. I didn=B4 t look into WLAN yet, other than to=20
install iwlwifi firmware package.
What I dislike:
=2D no eSATA port on the Intel graphics only model
- the eSATA port on the Minidock plus works ;)
- there are eSATA / USB 3 Express Cards available
- unfortunately the ThinkPad does seem to take only one express card
- I ordered a Delock flat one with one eSATA port that I could leave=20
permanently installed cause it disappears into the slot completely.
=2D no USB 3 port
=2D no bluray burner, thats that minor. I didn=B4 t use it yet anyway and=20
there are cheap external burners
The Fujitsu S751 for example is available with all of this, but then not=20
with Full HD display and a keyboard that is as good at this one. I do not=20
understand why I have to buy a NVidia Optimus to get the eSATA port. Or a=20
ThinkPad W workstation model for USB 3. Well for however who will wait a=20
bit longer, the next intel chipset for Ivybridge will finally support USB 3=
=20
and then Lenovo should not have any excuse for no USB 3 port anymore. But=20
then they have no excuse for no eSATA as well.
I close with some system data:
root@merkaba:~# lspci -nn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core=20
Processor Family DRAM Controller [8086:0104] (rev 09)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation=
=20
Core Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller [8086:0126] (rev 09)
00:16.0 Communication controller [0780]: Intel Corporation 6 Series=20
Chipset Family MEI Controller #1 [8086:1c3a] (rev 04)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit=20
Network Connection [8086:1502] (rev 04)
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family=20
USB Enhanced Host Controller #2 [8086:1c2d] (rev 04)
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family=20
High Definition Audio Controller [8086:1c20] (rev 04)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI=20
Express Root Port 1 [8086:1c10] (rev b4)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI=20
Express Root Port 2 [8086:1c12] (rev b4)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI=20
Express Root Port 4 [8086:1c16] (rev b4)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family PCI=20
Express Root Port 5 [8086:1c18] (rev b4)
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family=20
USB Enhanced Host Controller #1 [8086:1c26] (rev 04)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family LPC=20
Controller [8086:1c4f] (rev 04)
00:1f.2 SATA controller [0106]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family=20
6 port SATA AHCI Controller [8086:1c03] (rev 04)
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 6 Series Chipset Family SMBus=20
Controller [8086:1c22] (rev 04)
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation Centrino Advanced-N=20
6205 [8086:0085] (rev 34)
0d:00.0 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd Device [1180:e823] (rev 05)
0d:00.3 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd FireWire Host Controller=
=20
[1180:e832] (rev 04)
root@merkaba:~# cat /proc/version
Linux version 2.6.39-rc7-amd64 (Debian 2.6.39~rc7-1~experimental.1)=20
(maks@debian.org) (gcc version 4.4.5 (Debian 4.4.5-12) ) #1 SMP Tue May 10=
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15:03:36 UTC 2011
root@merkaba:~# dmidecode | grep -A 2 "BIOS Info"
BIOS Information
Vendor: LENOVO
Version: 8AET42WW (1.22 )
root@merkaba:~# dmidecode | grep -A 11 "Battery"
Portable Battery
Location: Rear
Manufacturer: SANYO
Name: 42T4791
Design Capacity: 56160 mWh
Design Voltage: 10800 mV
SBDS Version: 03.01
Maximum Error: Unknown
SBDS Serial Number: 5F8F
SBDS Manufacture Date: 2011-04-03
SBDS Chemistry: LION
OEM-specific Information: 0x00000000
root@merkaba:~# apt-show-versions | egrep "(xserver-xorg/|xserver-xorg-
core/|xserver-xorg-video-intel|libgl1-mesa-dri|libdrm-intel|kde-window-
manager|libqtgui4|tp-smapi-source)"
kde-window-manager/experimental uptodate 4:4.6.2-2
libdrm-intel1/sid uptodate 2.4.25-2
libgl1-mesa-dri/sid uptodate 7.10.2-2
libqtgui4/sid uptodate 4:4.7.3-1
tp-smapi-source/sid uptodate 0.40-9
xserver-xorg/sid uptodate 1:7.6+6
xserver-xorg-core/sid uptodate 2:1.10.1-2
xserver-xorg-video-intel/sid uptodate 2:2.15.0-3
So far for now,
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Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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