[ltp] ThinkPad R61 NF5DEGE

[Micha Feigin]

On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 07:20:41 -0700
Yves Dorfsman <yves@zioup.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> Micha wrote:
> > On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 10:20:09 +0100
> > Fabian Henze <CC.Fan@gmx.de> wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > I have the t61 so it's not an exact reference
> > 
> >> I have a Thinkpad R61 8919-6VG with
> >>  - NVidia Card
> >>  - T7300 (2 GHz)
> >>  - 4 GB RAM (previously 1 GB)
> >>  - 200 GB 7k2 upm hitachi hdd (upgraded from 120GB)
> >>  - no webcam
> >>  - 9 cell battery
> >>
> >> Almost everything works perfectly (suspend2ram, hdaps, all function keys, 
> 
> Micha, Fabian,
> 
> Are you guys using Ubuntu as the original poster, or another distribution ?
> I am asking because it does make a big difference on what works out of the 
> box or not. Wifi, volume buttons etc... did not work for me out of the box 
> with Gentoo on my R51, but everything except suspend/resume worked out of 
> the box with Fedora.
> 

I'm using debian unstable with a touch of testing. It depends on the packages,
some things need more work, some less. I mostly commented on what can be made
to work.

I got just about everything working on this machine (card reader works with sd,
didn't test others). The small things that don't work at the moment
resume from hibernate with nvidia drivers 177 and up (mixed reports on the
tuxonice mailing list, seem to be some option that hasn't been pinpointed yet).

rfkill on the wireless atheros card (there are three options, 2 intel one
atheros for this laptop), and the hardware switch is also not connected with
this card. With the intel 4965 it takes a non-free firmware but it's easier to
kill the antena.

There seem to be some issues with the microphone on this machine (skype) the
previous one was ok, didn't look to far into it yet.