HOWTOs - Driver Installation
This page holds information on how to make additional hardware work on your Thinkpad.
The pages linked here hold instructions for installing or configuring certain drivers to make them work with ThinkPad hardware. For an overview of the drivers themselves please look at the Drivers page.
Graphics
On a Thinkpad T41:
I just installed the new ATI drivers v8.14.13 Running "glxgears" with "radeon" or "ati" drivers I would get 300 FPS After installing "fglrx" drivers from ATI, glxgears shows 1200 FPS!
For me I had to run fglrxconfig utility which added a ton of stuff into xorg.conf. Without those settings in xorg.conf, you will not get the full speed and 3D support.
PowerManagement
- SpeedStep on piix4 (How to make SpeedStep (cpufreq) work on Coppermine-piix4-smi based Thinkpads)
- SpeedStep on P4-class Celeron (How to get SpeedStep working on P4-class-Celeron based Thinkpads)
- cpufreqd (How to configure the cpufreqd SpeedStep daemon)
- powersaved (How to configure the cpufreqd SpeedStep daemon)
Wireless LAN
- ndiswrapper for Intel 2200bg (ndiswrapper configuration for intel/pro 2200BG)
Additional Hardware
- IBM UltraCam II (How to make the IBM UltraCam II work under Linux)
- RADEON driver for X (Additional options for the radeon driver)
