Lenovo ThinkPad X61T
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[edit] Installation
As the x61t is a Core 2 Duo, i'm going to install Arch x86_64 on it.
[edit] Preparation of machine for linux installation
- make backup of 1st primary partition if possible. this is the recovery tools from lenovo/ibm - do not remove it... with grub you can later set it to be accessible!
- resize NTFS parition with MS Windows Vista or remove it completely from drive ... make space at the end of harddrive for archlinux (in my case 80gb harddrive 24gb linux / and /home)
[edit] No optical drive installation
As i do not have an optical drive and the x61t has no optical drive itself, the installation was done from an external usb-storage device (harddrive or usb-key).
[edit] Preparation of Installation medium
- Requirements
- packages: util-linux (provides cfdisk), syslinux, dosfstools (provides mkdosfs)
- running archlinux on a machine to prepare installation medium
- access to internet
- use cfdisk to create a primary FAT16 Partition (type=0c) on the usb stick and make it bootable
- use
mkdosfs /dev/sdXY
to create a file system on the partition and then mount it
mount -t msdos /dev/sdXY /media/installharddrive
- download ArchLinux installation ISO base from internet and mount it locally:
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/ArchLinux.iso /media/iso
- copy content from ISO to the installation harddrive:
cp -ra /media/iso/* /media/installharddrive
and copy isolinux files to root of partition:
cp /media/installharddrive/isolinux/* /media/installharddrive/
then rename isolinux.cfg to syslinux.cfg
mv /media/installharddrive/isolinux.cfg /media/installharddrive/syslinux.cfg
- unmount installation harddisk
- install syslinux to partition
syslinux -s /dev/sdXY
[edit] Boot USB harddrive on thinkpad x61t
in BIOS select USB-HDD to be your booting device ==> installation harddrive will boot.
[edit] proceed with installation as you wish
see for details Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide
[edit] notes on installing the bootloader
As bootloader i have choosen grub. to be able to boot the MS windows paritition as well as the recovery partition of lenovo, i have specified the following sections for grub (/boot/grub/menu.lst):
# Arch Linux title Arch Linux root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro vga=792 quiet initrd /boot/kernel26.img
# Arch Linux emergency title Arch Linux Fallback root (hd0,2) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda3 ro initrd /boot/kernel26-fallback.img
# booting "Rescue and Recovery" partition from Lenovo title Thinkpad Maintenance unhide (hd0,0) rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
# Vista title Thinkpad Windows Vista hide (hd0,0) rootnoverify (hd0,1) chainloader +1
assuming that /dev/sda1 is rescue and recovery from lenovo /dev/sda2 is MS windows /dev/sda3 is archlinux
[edit] Specific Hardware Setup
[edit] Sound
works out of the box - following modules were loaded automatically
[damir@Apollon Arch]$ lsmod | grep snd snd_seq_oss 32896 0 snd_seq_midi_event 7808 1 snd_seq_oss snd_seq 55680 4 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq_device 7956 2 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq snd_hda_intel 347940 4 snd_pcm_oss 44576 0 snd_pcm 82568 3 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss snd_timer 22536 3 snd_seq,snd_pcm snd_page_alloc 8720 2 snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm snd_mixer_oss 16896 1 snd_pcm_oss snd 57064 14 snd_seq_oss,snd_seq,snd_seq_device,snd_hda_intel,snd_pcm_oss,snd_pcm,snd_timer,snd_mixer_oss soundcore 7968 1 snd
[edit] Ethernet
works out of the box - autoloaded module: e1000
e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: NIC Link is Up 100 Mbps Full Duplex, Flow Control: RX/TX e1000: eth0: e1000_watchdog: 10/100 speed: disabling TSO
[edit] Firewire
works out of the box
[edit] USB
works out of the box
[edit] Power Management
[edit] suspend machine
pm-suspend
works (keyboard, mouse, stylus, sound, network) with one detail: when in X, the display lamp is not turned on. workaround: ctrl-alt-f1 to switch to vesa frame buffer turns the lamp on and when switching back to ctrl-alt-f7 the X has then the lamp turned on as well. no idea why this happens.
[edit] Wireless network device
get packages
pacman -S iwlwifi iwlwifi-4965-ucode
arch loads the module
iwl4965
and wireless works fine
[edit] Xorg
- works with xf86-video-intel
- does NOT work with xf86-video-i810
- generate xorg.conf with
X -configure
the xorg.conf i'm using can be found here Thinkpad x61t SXGA+ xorg.conf
[edit] Stylus
Is a wacom on serial. install
linuxwacom
then add to xorg.conf
InputDevice "stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
InputDevice "cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
to ServerLayout
and
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "stylus"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # SERIAL ONLY
Option "Type" "stylus"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "eraser"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # SERIAL ONLY
Option "Type" "eraser"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
Section "InputDevice"
Driver "wacom"
Identifier "cursor"
Option "Device" "/dev/ttyS0" # SERIAL ONLY
Option "Type" "cursor"
Option "ForceDevice" "ISDV4" # Tablet PC ONLY
EndSection
and it works. Xorg log tells a little bit more info:
(==) Wacom General ISDV4 tablet speed=9600 maxX=24576 maxY=18432 maxZ=255 resX=2540 resY=2540 tilt=disabled (==) Wacom device "cursor" top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=24576 bottom Y=18432 (==) Wacom device "eraser" top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=24576 bottom Y=18432 (==) Wacom device "stylus" top X=0 top Y=0 bottom X=24576 bottom Y=18432
so this device has 255 sensitivity steps and has a resolution of 2540 x 2540 it tells you also that the screen size is 245.76 mm times 184.32 mm big. if in xorg.conf the DisplaySize is not set by X -configure, you can add the following line in the Monitor section:
DisplaySize 245 185
this helps some apps to determine the resolution of your monitor ("dpi value") and set the sizes of objects or fonts right (e.g. in the 1:1 mode where something printed should equal something seen on the display)
AUTOMATIC ROTATION (added by bbs) -- for automatic rotation consider the script found here -- thanks to Luke -- this script works well.
please note you must update your handler.sh for the acpi events to properly call this script -- contact unk.nown [at] unix [dot] net -- if you have any questions
[edit] Trackpoint
To get the scroll on middle button + trackpoint to work (in all four directions), add these lines to your mouse section:
Option "EmulateWheel" "on"
Option "Emulate3Buttons" "on"
Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
[edit] SD card reader
sdhci: Secure Digital Host Controller Interface driver sdhci: Copyright(c) Pierre Ossman sdhci: SDHCI controller found at 0000:05:00.2 [1180:0822] (rev 21)
not yet tested
[edit] Fingerprint Reader
USB ID 0483:2016
Works fine with the ThinkFinger binary drivers version 0.3. i will include the thinkfinger pkg in [extra].
[edit] CPU Freqency Scaling
Install the package cpufrequtils, add cpufreq to DAEMONS, add acpi_cpufreq to MODULES in /etc/rc.conf and put these lines in your /etc/rc.local:
echo "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor echo "ondemand" > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_governor cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq > \ /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/cpuinfo_max_freq > \ /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu1/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq
This will enable ondemand frequency scaling on both cores.
[edit] to be continued
i'm working on this document - that's why it is marked still as stub!