T60p and Ubuntu Linux Dapper 6.06

[b_chris]

Installed perfectly the other day, only problem is the video driver, it works under VESA but it's more a generic mode.

regards.

[orientalqing]

Congradulations, I installed it on my T60p, but the sound is not muted, have you done anything special to get it to work? Thanks.

[NightStorm]

Installed perfectly the other day, only problem is the video driver, it works under VESA but it's more a generic mode.

I installed the release candidate on this T60p and then followed the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntulinux.org/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI to install the ATI fglrx driver. Worked great.

Congradulations, I installed it on my T60p, but the sound is not muted, have you done anything special to get it to work? Thanks.

In the ubuntu RC the sounds was already setup to work with the Thinkpad buttons. I've since wiped Ubuntu RC and installed the official release of 06.06 Kubuntu (and re-installed the ATI fglrx video driver). The sound worked but the buttons no longer controlled it. I did notice that the nvram module was already being loaded but had to create a new "nvram" group and then add myself to that group. A logout/login, and then setting up the "Thinkpad kmilo" KDE plugin (System Settings, Laptops & Power, IBM Thinkpad Laptop, check "Run Thinkpad Buttons KMilo plugin", uncheck "Change volume in software ..."), logout/login, and voila! The volume and other Thinkpad buttons work and are accompanied by an onscreen display.

[MaloventEvil]

did you guys have to fiddle with anything to get sound to work? my sound doesnt work at all (2623DDU). Also, if you did not fiddle with anything, which version did you install from? (the live cd?)

[MaloventEvil]

i figured it out; the problem i was having was that if the modem is disabled in bios, sound will not work for some reason. i turned it back on and it worked!

[Ujeni.net]

Can you put your t60p to sleep with ubuntu? Or Hibernate? Hows the power management?

[khaoohs]

I cannot get the onboard ethernet to work in my T60P. No problems with the wireless, but no driver for ethernet. Any suggestions.

[wide-eye]

hey, I'm using ubuntu dapper as well
for sound: I have to reload the driver for my sound to work. haven't looked into it further.
put this in my /etc/rc.local

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rmmod snd-hda-intel
modprobe snd-hda-intel

only other issue is with the ati video driver, hibernate works but video is garbled after restarting, so I have to ctl-alt-bksp and login again. sleep: locks up the machine on resume, again due to ati's(now amd's) driver. supposedly vesa works fine.
cpu: speed adjust works great out of the box. vid card: I have to use aticonfig --set-powerstate=1 manually to get another hour out of the battery. some bugs while playing a video. but hey the card plays ut2k4 at max settings so no complaints here
ethernet: is e1000 module, only problem I've had was with the checksum error shown in dmesg after hibernating. Which either the bios update, or some other bios tweak I saw on thinkwiki fixed.

edit:
upgraded to ati-driver 8.28.8 and sleep/hibernate works fine now.
method 2 here:
http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Ubuntu ... tion_Guide