ThinkpadZ60t_2511-FFG

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Overview

I just wanted to add this section for people intereseted in this laptop to run linux on it. Generally, I'm very glad having bought this one. The Linux support is perfect (fingerprint reader works, bluetooth, wifi (with some work, though), ACPI suspend, almost all access keys etc.). Also, there seem to be LOTS of linux freaks out there who own Thinkpads, so you'll get a lot of help at www.thinkwiki.org.

For more information, read further. Wink ;)

Current Issues

Hi Michael, could you please confirm the arrange of the suspend (was Fn-F4) keys as I believe they've been swapped and/or moved on the Z60*. Also, could you please run 'xev' and see if the Fn-left/right/up/down play/stop/forward/backward functions generate keycodes of ACPI events. This haven't appeared on any ThinkPads before so I don't know the keycodes. Many Thanks, -PaulSladen

Fn-F4 is suspend, yes. Works perfect for me once I set all the options correctly. I don't know exactly what you mean by "ACPI events", they seem like normal keycodes to me. Hope I helped you.

  • Looking at the photos I've seen, there's something weird happening in the top-left of the keyboard and there now appears to be something on Fn-F2 where Thinkpads haven't had anything before. Could you fill out the list with information about the icons of the keys and what function they are /supposed/ to do?

    The ACPI events can be recorded with sudo tail -0f /var/log/acpid and then pressing the function keys; and the play/back/next/forward keys hopefully show up with xev under X or sudo showkey -u from the console (Press Ctrl-Alt-F1 and login---wait 10 seconds for it to auto terminate).

    BTW, I'm <sladen> on IRC, if you're around would you be able to contact me if you're still online for some real-time checking of stuff? -PaulSladen

    I did now update the table of function keys with the keycodes. The play/back/next/stop keys generate normal X keycodes as you can see below. Fn+F2 is a "lock" symbol, I'll test what this does under windows later. I looked a few times in the #ubuntu channel of freenode but didn't find you. Maybe we just miss because of the time difference, since I live in germany. Smile :)

Hardware details

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Installation works?

Yes

Yes (Flight 2 Kubuntu)

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

Screen

Yes

Yes

Correct resolution?

Yes

No (need 915Resolution) see [#915res below]

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

Yes

3D Acceleration

Yes

need change driver to "i810" in xorg.conf

External monitor works?

Untested

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

yes

yes

Hibernates?

yes

doesn't wake up

Sleep

Untested

finally works, some config needed

Dim monitor on battery

yes

yes

Blank monitor on inactivity

Untested

yes

Lid Close

yes

yes

Cpu frequency scaling

yes

yes

Sound

Sound works?

yes

yes

Correct volume?

yes

yes

Hardware volume switch

Untested

yes (with thinkpad kmilo plugin) or "tpb" for non-kde

Headphone jack

Untested

yes

Mic jack

Untested

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

yes

yes

Wireless NIC

Untested

works with SVN madwifi-ng, for WPA I also needed to compile wpa_supplicant by hand following [http://madwifi.org/wiki/UserDocs/802.11i this]

PCMCIA NIC

Untested

Untested

Firewire

Untested

Untested

Bluetooth

yes

yes (out-of-the-box with kbluetoothd)

Modem

Untested

Untested

Infrared

Untested

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Touchpad

yes

yes

Touchpad - Doubletap = double click

Untested

yes

Touchpad - Scroll down side

Untested

yes

External mouse - USB

Untested

yes

External mouse - Serial

Untested

Untested

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

Untested

Untested

USB

Untested

Untested

Serial

Untested

Untested

Parallel

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

NIC

Untested

Untested

PS/2

Untested

Untested

Additional Hardware

Fingerprint reader

Untested

YES!! see thinkwiki.org for more

CD/DVD drive

Untested

yes (burning not tested yet)

PCMCIA cards

Untested

Untested

Parallel Ports

Untested

Untested

Card reader(s)

Untested

Untested

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

+ Space

zoom

none

Untested

with kmilo-thinkpad or tpb

+ F2

lock (screen?)

none

Untested

no

+ F3

a battery symbol, don't know what it's supposed to do

none

Untested

no (same as above)

+ F4

suspend to ram (moon)

ACPI event button/sleep

Untested

yes

+ F5

wlan and bluetooth on/off

none

Untested

this only turns of bluetooth, also does the slider in front of the laptop, so there is NO way to turn out wlan in hardware

+ F7

external monitor switch

Untested

seems to work, didn't connect a monitor but the internal screen turns black and comes back if you push the button again

+ F8

multihead monitor

Untested

Untested

+ F9

eject

Untested

no

+ F12

suspend to disc

Untested

should be recognized, didn't test suspend-to-disk yet

+ roll

numlock

77

Untested

yes

+ UPARROW

media stop

164

Untested

Untested

+ DOWNARROW

media play/pause

162

Untested

Untested

+ LEFTARROW

media back

144

Untested

Untested

+ RIGHTARROW

media forward

153

Untested

Untested

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Breezy?

in Dapper (current development)?

volume/mute keys

Untested

work with kmilo thinkpad plugin or "tpb" for non-kde

Thinkpad button

Untested

works with kmilo thinkpad plugin or "tpb" for non-kde

front wifi slider

Untested

only turns on/off bluetooth, wifi stays on

broswer forward/back keys (above left/right arrow)

none

Untested

no

Notes

More information will arrive soon.

02.03.2006 some updates

I now switched from kubuntu to ubuntu and got some more things to work, mainly acpi suspend. It works if you turn off all framebuffer support in the kernel (so, you have to compile your own one) and set the "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" kernel parameter. It then works with "echo mem > /sys/power/state" even while in X11. To work with the gnome-laptop-manager or with the ubuntu acpi daemon, you have to set some more options, see e.g. /etc/default/acpi-support. Here is my xorg.conf: [attachment:xorg.conf]

Anchor(915res)

Getting the right resolution with 915resolution

915resolution comes by default with dapper, you just need to edit the config file at /etc/default/915resolution. Here's a configuration that works: 

# 915resolution default
#
# find free modes by  /usr/sbin/915resolution -l
# and set it to MODE
#
MODE=3c
#
# and set resolutions for the mode.
#
XRESO=1280
YRESO=768
#
# We can also set the pixel mode.
# Please note that this is optional,
# you can also leave this value blank.
BIT=32

This changes a unused resolution setting in the GPU bios (e.g. 3c) to the right resolution of 1280x768.

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