Lenovo Thinkpad T61

I picked up this new laptop after waiting a month for it. Pics and details to come later. First I'm just going to take setup notes.

Now where is the option to create backup media.

• Right off the bad several updates to install. Of course they want to reboot the system. Boooooo.
• Creating product recovery disks actually has two options. One for full recovery disks and another for the lenovo tools you can use when you can't get into windows. I went for the full recovery.
  • Final CD count is a Starter CD and 7 Recovery CDs. So have a bunch of blanks handy.

• Seems to look ok and keep up with slow movement
• Just tested it in Windows Live Messenger so far
• Far too bright at first. Had to set the brightness to the lowest setting and turn off the low light compensation settings in the options.

• Windows reports a driver for RICOH R5C83x.84x Flash Medica Controller
• Will read SDHC disk. I have a 4gb disk that it read just fine in Windows.

• Popped in the cd and hit f12 during boot to get a list of boot options
• Got close to the desktop and them it bombed. I just got a garbled screen on boot of the live cd
• Trying to get to a terminal failed
• Restarted and selected the “Safe Graphics Mode” option
• Still had fubar'd graphics
• Booted with the alternative install CD
• Went with a 120gb partition for Ubuntu
• After install boot into command line mode and change the graphics from vesa to intel
• Reboot and got into a gui, but the resolustoin was only in the top left of my screen and running at 1024×768
  • See below for graphics information update
• Great writeup on the Fedora Forums
• Thinkwiki Writeup for Ubuntu

The drivers are now in the kernel modules and at the current level of .42. It seems to be working out ok.

Old links:

• http://intellinuxwireless.org/?p=iwlwifi&n=howto-iwlwifi
• http://kuscsik.blogspot.com/2007/06/how-to-install-intel-4965-wireless.html

My xorg.conf file: xorg.conf

Seems that work on the bug has been taking place. See the link above for a working .deb file.

I filed a bug here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xserver-xorg-video-intel/+bug/123170

This has been corrected in the Gutsy intel driver.

Screen brightness can be set in the power settings, but not the function key combo for increase/decrease brightness

Supposedly it's working in alsa cvs, but I had a difficult time trying to hand compile it. I'm just going to wait for the updates to make it into Gutsy.

This seems to work out of the box with Ekiga and Gutsy. I had to change the video plugin setting to V4L2 (instead of V4L) and Ekiga turned on the camera with the light and seemed to work out just fine

I can't get it to work with any other bit of camera software out there.
Found a note here on using this app called luvcview. I had to first install

sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev

So that the app would compile, but after that it went nice and fast.

./luvcview -f yuv

Here's an image that I took from the camera. It definitely needs some work.

This didn't seem to be working. I had my 4gb card in during install and for hours. It wasn't until I removed the disk and reinserted it, that the disk showed up and seemed to work.

This seems to have gone away. The machine does not like restarting X though via ctrl-alt-del. If I have to restart X for any reason I've found it's better to do a whole reset.

Ran out to the store and when I got back I had a nicely locked up machine. Nothing worked so it was hard-reset time. I'll have to play with it to see if it's only on 3d screensavers or what.

Zend doesn't like to run with compiz. You just get a blank grey screen with no menus. You need to add a string to the options in the ZDE file in the bin/ directory. https://www.zend.com/forums/index.php?t=msg&goto=8891

 Add the line 'options="$options -Dawt.toolkit=sun.awt.motif.MToolkit"' on line 1695 in ZDE start file in /bin/