X201s and Ubuntu

[zverg]

Loving how nearly everything 'just works', right out of the box on Ubuntu 10.04 (beta)

Anyone else running Linux on their X201/s yet?

Lucid boots crazy fast with a traditional hard drive, with an SSD it's ridiculous. Less than 10 seconds from power button press until at the desktop (if I have it auto log in to my user account, I did it just to time it). I still need to set up PAM to accept fingerprints for login (and enroll some fingerprints for the OS to use).

Basically I'm just posting this to let anyone out there thinking about it to just dive in, it works great. It currently uses 2.6.32, which doesn't have support for TRIM, but I don't think the Samsung SSD supports TRIM anyway.

Things that don't work out of the box:
- UPEK Fingerprint Scanner. Need to use the fprint ppa, located here: https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint, as the Ubuntu repository version isn't new enough to support our model. Still a work in progress, my reader is detected now but I can't enroll fingerprints.

[yak]

Sorry for an off-topic but your signature says that your X201s has a WSXGA+ screen. Really? 1680x1050? WXGA+ is probably what you have (1440x900).

[zverg]

Sorry for an off-topic but your signature says that your X201s has a WSXGA+ screen. Really? 1680x1050? WXGA+ is probably what you have (1440x900).

sorry, yeah. Meant WSXGA/WXGA+

wish people would just settle for one naming convention ha. I would looove 1680x1050 on this 12" screen.

As an update, fprint also doesn't detect the reader in the X201s. I did boot Windows 7 once, just to enroll a couple fingers to use for the BIOS (and so I can use the cool feature where it powers it up when it detects a proper scan). I'm ok with having to type in one passphrase to get to the desktop, especially since the laptop is closed when it's at work.

[Superego]

Sounds like the fingerprint reader in the X201s is a UPEK, but it is currently unsupported by thinkfinger. I'll have to check fprint.

If it is a UPEK then you might be in luck, depending on the device ID. Run the following

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# lsusb |grep Finger
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader 

Your output may vary, but you'll want to look for that 8 digit USB ID. If yours matches (0483:2016) then thinkfinger should support it. However, judging by this link, thinkfinger may be a pain in Lucid.

You can check out the unsupported devices at fprint if you want: http://reactivated.net/fprint/wiki/Unsupported_devices. I didn't see anything that would indicate a definite no, but it all depends on which type of reader you actually have. Just be glad you don't have one of the newer Authentecs like me....flat out not going to work.

[zverg]

Bus 001 Device 003: ID 147e:2016 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor

It of course looks nothing like the fingerprint reader on my T42, it's a lot smaller, it's black, and of course it has the cool little LEDs in it.

I know how to set up Thinkfinger in Lucid just fine, it wasn't anything crazy on my good ol T42.

here's what the fprint unsupported device page (thanks for the link) has to say "The latest revision of UPEK's Eikon offering is a 147e:2016 device (as opposed to a 0483:2015 upekts device). Devices with this ID are usually supported by upeksonly but this is reported not to work. "

I'm now using fprint from the fprint Ubuntu PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint

and the reader is detected, but I can't get anything enrolled. Baby steps . Apparently this same reader was in the R61 back in.. 2007? Yet still no widely available support, weird. I guess I'm one of few people who actually cares about using this hardware.

[iMav]

Glad to hear most everything works out of the box (one of the great things about Linux on thinkpads, for the most part).

I am considering a X201s and would definitely be running Linux exclusively (I stay away from the nasty as much as possible)

[tylerwylie]

Glad to hear most everything works out of the box (one of the great things about Linux on thinkpads, for the most part).

I am considering a X201s and would definitely be running Linux exclusively (I stay away from the nasty as much as possible)

[eazyadm]

Good morning to all X201s Owners,

yesterday I got my new X201s but my first impression isn't like the first expirience of 'zverg'.

I'm running Ubuntu 10.4 beta 2 on it, so some problems can result out of the Beta version.
- Intel Graphics --> works fast an out of the Box
- Intel 82577LM Ethernet Controller --> works perfect
- Intel SATA Controller --> work fast (i had one strange situation, when pluging off an in the AC, i had a read only file system --> so i will have a look on this)
- Suspend to ram --> i have to issues, when i close my x201s nothing happens, but acpi_listen is getting S3 'hmmm' --> if i send the laptop to sleep with pm-suspend, one of three wakeup's are ending with an reboot 'grrrr'
- Intel HD Audio --> works
- WLAN Intel WiMAX WiFi 6050 --> doesn't work because of the missing Firmware from Intel
- Ultrabase --> works fine
- Fingerprint sensor --> not tested

But i'm in hope that all the problems will be solved after the weekend excepting the intel wireless firmware, but i think it will be available in about 1 month.

@Zverg, do you have the same standby problems as described above? The other strange thing is that there is no option available in gnome-powermanager for an action on closing the laptop, so think this is an ubuntu problem but i will have a look on google *g*.

so long

bye
eazy

[Volker]

- Suspend to ram --> i have to issues, when i close my x201s nothing happens, but acpi_listen is getting S3 'hmmm' --> if i send the laptop to sleep with pm-suspend, one of three wakeup's are ending with an reboot 'grrrr'
- WLAN Intel WiMAX WiFi 6050 --> doesn't work because of the missing Firmware from Intel

For about 80$ you can get a Intel 6200 WiFi (non-wimax) shipped that'll work perfectly until Intel gets their act together. They promised the firmware would be out any day now, but that was a month ago

Suspend to ram is broken on my T410s in the same way (resumes only once, then dies on second resume). Apparently that is a BIOS bug that Lenovo promised to fix with the next update.

[ThinkRob]

Apparently that is a BIOS bug that Lenovo promised to fix with the next update.

Lenovo's actually pretty good when it comes to ACPI support, so I'd actually hold out good hopes for this.

(Off-topic, but...) On the other side of things we have HP whose DSDTs are astoundingly buggy/invalid.

[gregnorc]

Does anyone have working brightness keys? Did you have to anything special to get them working?

I found these instructions:

Use the command "xbacklight". Read "man xbacklight". For example "xbacklight -set 10" reduces backlight to 10%. Then you can bind that command to a function key. For binding methods read: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Extra_Keyboard_Keys and the documentation for your window manager on how to bind multimedia keys to commands.

But when I run that command I get the error "No outputs have backlight property" so even that solution (which seems a bit hackish) does not work.

[ThinkRob]

Does anyone have working brightness keys? Did you have to anything special to get them working?

I don't have an X201s, but I do remember brightness was a little tricky under Debian Lenny. I use the following scripts (invoked via acpid) to control brightness:

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rob@crow:/etc/acpi$ cat thinkpad-video-brightness-down.sh 
#!/bin/sh

if [ -f /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness ]; then
	echo $(( $(grep current /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness | cut -d ' ' -f 2)-10)) > /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness
else
	echo down > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
fi


rob@crow:/etc/acpi$ cat thinkpad-video-brightness-up.sh 
#!/bin/sh

if [ -f /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness ]; then
	echo $(( $(grep current /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness | cut -d ' ' -f 2)+10)) > /proc/acpi/video/VID1/LCD0/brightness
else
	echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
fi

thinkpad-acpi (often) exposes a brightness control that you can use if the native ACPI-based panel control doesn't exist/work/etc. This method works great on my T500. My X61s and X60s don't need that hack, since they work in a more standard fashion.

[cmavr8]

Loving how nearly everything 'just works', right out of the box on Ubuntu 10.04 (beta)

Anyone else running Linux on their X201/s yet?

Lucid boots crazy fast with a traditional hard drive, with an SSD it's ridiculous. Less than 10 seconds from power button press until at the desktop (if I have it auto log in to my user account, I did it just to time it). I still need to set up PAM to accept fingerprints for login (and enroll some fingerprints for the OS to use).

Basically I'm just posting this to let anyone out there thinking about it to just dive in, it works great. It currently uses 2.6.32, which doesn't have support for TRIM, but I don't think the Samsung SSD supports TRIM anyway.

Things that don't work out of the box:
- UPEK Fingerprint Scanner. Need to use the fprint ppa, located here: https://launchpad.net/~fingerprint/+archive/fprint, as the Ubuntu repository version isn't new enough to support our model. Still a work in progress, my reader is detected now but I can't enroll fingerprints.

Hello, I also have an X201s with i7 and 128GB SSD, but I cannot make it boot in less than 25", from button press to desktop...
Even with bios "quick check", no grub delay and Ubuntu 11.04... on an Ext4 partition.

Do you still have this performance?
Can you do a disk read test? Using the System>Administration>Disk Utility I get average 96.8 MB/s, min 69.3 MB/s... You?

Thanks