[ltp] (Report)Ubuntu 6.06 Beta on thinkpad x60

[john]

Hi Thierry,
I had a very similar experience with my x60s with Ubuntu.  Everything
worked great out of the box or after some tweaking except for suspend
and external monitor.
I'm also getting poor battery performance, even with the frequency
scaling.  5.5 hours typically compared to 8 hours under windows with the
8 cell. (at least that is what they advertise)
-John


On Thu, 2006-05-04 at 10:50 +0200, Thierry Nicola wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am new to this mailing List, but I got my new x60 and I installed
> Ubuntu 6.06 on the machine.
> Ubuntu now recommends to use LiveCD for installation and that's what I
> did.
> Well installation worked quite good, resized the windows Partition with
> the integrated(in linux installation) tool. The jumping simply on step
> back, in the installation process, and choosing to install linux on the
> largest continuous free space. Of course I still wanted to access the
> IBM recovery partition later, so during installation I prayed this would
> work.
> 
> Well after the installation had finished I rebooted and I came to Grub,
> presenting me with Windows XP, and Windows NT(which turned out to be the
> mysterious IBM partition) and of course Ubuntu.
> 
> So everything worked fine, the thinkvantage button now brings me to
> grub, that's ok with me because from here I can access the Recovery
> Partition.
> 
> For Ubuntu almost everything worked out of the box, almost all FN
> buttons worked, Wireless hardware switch at front also works. Well if
> you have any question related whether something worked fell free to ask
> me.
> 
> What did not work out of the box, was wireless, suspend-to-ram and
> suspend-to-hd, connecting external monitor and support for dual core.
> 
> What works now
> 
> * Wireless got it running following the install instruction from
> ieee80211 and ipw3945. Now wireless works quite good. I just cannot get
> the awaited Network Manager from Ubuntu/Gnome to work. So I am using
> KWifimanger right now.
> 
> * Support for Dual core is once you have wireless quite easy, 'apt-get
> install linux-686-smp'. Well that was easy.
> 
> * High pitch noise when running on battery can be turned off, following
> the instructions on www.thinkwiki.org
> 
> What does still not work
> 
> * Suspend-to-ram,suspend-to-hd, connecting external Monitor
> (if there is any one who got this to work, I would be happy for some
> advices, because I don't want to have to switch back to Windows)
> 
> 
> An annoyance is that battery life is very very short. Under Windows I
> managed to get almost 6 hours of battery life(with 4-cell) but every
> power-saving tool enabled . Under Linux I hardly manage to get 3 hours,
> but hopefully playing with cpu scaling I mange to get 4 hours.
> 
> I created a blog with information what I did
> http://www.williambrownstreet.net/bmachine/
> 
> I am happy for any comments, advices and help.
> 
> Have a nice day
>