no on screen displays in jaunty T30

[emeraldgirl08]

I'm wondering if any guys or gals out there have a way to get the onscreen displays to work in Jaunty? They worked in Ibex but not in Jaunty.

[emeraldgirl08]

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Okay I found a fix for the lack of Thinkpad T30 on-screen displays in Ubi 9.04.

a) Go to your synaptic package manager.

b) Key in "Tpb" in the search field (without the "")

c) check it.

d) enable

There. Now you have onscreen displays. You may worry that there is the footnote about having the hotkeys removed. I checked the thinklight, display off, brightness, except the hibernation after install- they all work. I'm a little leery of trying hibernation b/c I don't use it and have read something about problems with it.

If you would like to restore your pre-tpb settings just go back to synaptic package manager and uncheck the "tpb" and recheck the "hotkey-setup."

EDIT: upon restart the OSD is not working again! I've read some posts on Thinkwiki and it seems I have to tinker with the xorg.conf files. Adding things to it. I don't know. It worked when I downloaded and installed it before restart- why did restarting it break it? It's still listed as installed in the Synaptic Package Manager. Hmmmm... more reading is necessary.

[t140568]

I've tried it too with the same results.
While it can be restarted with "sudo tpb &" from a command prompt, it fails to work again after a reboot or logout/login.

Where did you find the post about editing xorg.conf?

I'll keep looking...

[emeraldgirl08]

Try Thinkwiki. Enter Tpb in the search field or just look around. You should find a bunch of possible solutions there.

Geez this was like a month ago. Truthfully I haven't been keeping up on the OSD's. If you or someone does find a way- please do let me know. I miss the OSD's I had in Intrepid

[Beartooth]

Could you post your /etc/X11/xorg.conf here? A few of us comparing it with ours might find something instructive.

Note that Fedora, which I run, has done something in the last couple of releases which makes xorg.conf unnecessary; if ubuntu (which I do not run) has done its like, you may not even have an xorg.conf. However, in Fedora at least, according to the Fedora list, you can still create one, and it will be used.

One other thought: something I read somewhere lately said that the T30s were shipped with two different monitors, which have different resolutions. You may need to figure out somehow which you have -- or we may all need to -- before we can say whose xorg.conf you might try cloning.

And still another: if, as seems likely, Ubuntu has something like Fedora's system-config-display, it might solve the problem without recourse to cloning; since you're in Ubuntu, remember to use sudo.

[emeraldgirl08]

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Section "Device"
	Identifier	"Configured Video Device"
         Option "AGPMode" "4"
    Option "AGPFastWrite" "True"
    Option "EnablePageFlip" "True"
    Option "AGPMode" "4"
    Option "AGPSize" "64"
    Option "RingSize" "8"
    Option "BufferSize" "2"
    Option "EnableDepthMoves" "true"
    Option "RenderAccel" "true"
    # Eyecandy Stuff
    Option "AccelMethod" "XAA"
    Option "EnablePageFlip" "true
    Option "DDCMode"
    Option "SubPixelOrder" "NONE"
    Option "ColorTiling" "false"
    Option "MigrationHeuristic" "greedy"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
	Identifier	"Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
	Identifier	"Default Screen"
	Monitor		"Configured Monitor"
	Device		"Configured Video Device"
EndSection

This my xorg.conf file. I have added a couple of lines to my file for ATI acceleration. It works great! When I initially ran either Intrepid or Jaunty the ATI 7500 did not have any hardware drivers in system>>administration>>Hardware Drivers.

There was also a problem with scrolling in Firefox. This change to my xorg.conf file fixed it manageably.



As far as Onscreen displays in Jaunty. I do catch a momentary glimpse of one when I pull the AC plug the brightness-level indicator shows in the upper right corner. I've been terribly preoccupied with other things right now so I haven't dedicated much time to it!

Once again if anyone gets a heads-up. Let me know!