[ltp] T60 64bit

[Ilias Stergiou]

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