[ltp] T60, Gutsy, woes!

Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:39:02 +0000

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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.<br>
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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).<br>
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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?<br>
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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 :-(<br>
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If anyone can suggest something to sort the sound out I'd be very
grateful.<br>
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Cheers<br>
Phil<br>
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Robin Randhawa wrote:
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  <pre wrap="">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:
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    <pre wrap="">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 &lt;my network essid&gt;
    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:

            <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html">http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html</a>

        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:

            <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html">http://www.gtk.org/setuid.html</a>

        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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