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

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

iMav wrote: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 wrote: - 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

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

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.

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

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

zverg wrote: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.