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• Contact: ["MichaelHelmling"]

• Make: IBM/Lenovo
• Brand: Thinkpad
• Model: Z60t 2511-FFG (2GHz 80GB DVD-RW-Multi Bluetooth)

• Website: http://www5.pc.ibm.com/de/products.nsf/Products?openagent&brand=Thinkpad&series=ThinkPad+Z+notebooks

Overview

I just wanted to add this section for people intereseted in this laptop to run linux on it.

• We're really keen for more than that. The reason the Laptop Testing Team exists is to make laptops work out-of-the-box with zero configuration required by the user. -PaulSladen

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.

Current Issues

Ok, so basically suspend to RAM works with echo mem > /sys/power/state, but not with the acpi daemon or the KDE laptop tool. I am creating a list of things I had to do manually after installing out-of-the-box kubuntu dapper beta.

- manually start the KDE battery monitor - add "acpi_sleep=s3_bios" to the kernel (without that one, display remains black after suspend) - remove all wacom drivers from "ServerLayout" in /etc/X11/xorg.conf, otherways I get odd errors and some X apps (e.g. konqueror) didn't start. Bug filed.

later 2006-04-22

I installed now from the beta release of kubuntu dapper. I am updating the table benieth. All in all, there are a lot of things that now work but didn't with flight 2, but sadly ACPI suspend to RAM doesn't work yet. I hope I'll find a solution. Note: The table isn't complete yet, everything beneith "dim monitor on battery" still applies to flight 2.

2006-04-22

Sorry, was quite busy this days. I still have some trouble with WLAN, I think the newest cvs version of madwifi-ng is not working correctly, but I'm gonna check that out. Maybe I'll even reinstall from the newest flight, just to see what works and what doesn't ATM.

2006-03-27

I just gave it a foolish try today and - ACPI suspend-to-RAM worked with the ubuntu standard kernel. I don't know why, it definitively did NOT work the time I tried it first. Well, the kernel keeps getting better. So, you probably won't have to compile your own kernel (which might take a long time if you don't make much changes to the standard kernel). But you'll need the headers to build the madwifi-ng driver. Anyways, I plan to figure out what kernel options are really needed and post a z60t-optimized config file here. But that will take some time.

• If the kernel doesn't work out of the box, that is a bug! Please file anything required against linux-source-2.6.15. There shouldn't need to be any reason to recompile linux to get it to work on a piece of hardware. -PaulSladen

• Well, suspend-to-RAM works with all the newer kernels, but I have the feeling that it worked a bit faster with my own kernel, taking only 2 secs to wake up compared to maybe 10 secs now. What still doesn't work is the atheros wifi card because it needs the madwifi-ng drivers. But those are installable without kernel recompilation. Th reason I had to compile my own kernel is that it was necessary to completely remove framebuffer support for suspend to work (see [http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_with_display_remaining_black_after_resume here]).

So should I also file a bug because of the missing madwifi-ng? -MichaelHelmling

2006-03-08

Another step to full linux support ... at another wiki I found how to make use of some more function keys, added that to this page.

• hotkey-setup and acpi-support should make all of the function keys work out of the box; if they don't, please file a bug with the information from LaptopTestingTeam/HotkeyResearch -PaulSladen

2006-03-07

I found out that the browser back/forward keys work with tpb. They can be customized with the BACKWARD and FORWARD option in /etc/tpbrc.

• tpb should be dead. It conflicts with hotkey-setup and you shouldn't be able to have it installed. Can you file a bug against xkeyboard-config that the standard BACK and FORWARD keycodes should work in X -PaulSladen

Hardware details

NOTE: for the acpi events of the type ibm/hotkey to work, you first need to execude the following as root:  echo enable,0xffff >/proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey  Add this to a bootscript to have it done every startup.

Notes

More information will arrive soon.

2006-02-03 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

This is not needed with newer ubuntu versions (testet dapper beta)!

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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