Installing Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on a Thinkpad T60
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General Notice
If you have an ATI graphics card and a perfectly fine Ubuntu Feisty 7.04 installation, then : DON'T UPGRADE TO GUTSY.
Just wait until this bug https://launchpad.net/bugs/121653 is fixed.
Features
- Compiz Fusion 3D Desktop (eye candy)
For some type of T60 which use ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 module, in order to make Compiz Fusion 3D Desktop work you cannot use Fglrx driver, use xgl driver instead:
sudo apt-get install xserver-xgl
Graphical Configuration Tool
Some Thinkpad T60s laptops ship with ATI video cards. Previously Ubtuntu 7.04 Open Source video drivers could be graphically configured with a minimal utility that allowed to choose a single resolution. However, users could be compelled to use the non-free ATI video driver (Fglrx) because ATI shipped a more featureful utility, Catalyst Control Center. Gusty Gibbon now ships a more fully-featured utility, making the Open Source video drivers a more attractive choice.
Installation
Installation of Gutsy Gibbon on the ThinkPad T60 2623KFU went without a hitch. I was able to resize an existing ext3 partition and perform a new install of Ubuntu 7.10 without removing Feisty Fawn. If you are resizing or installing Gutsy Gibbon on a clean partition while maintaining other operating system partitions, I would suggest reinstalling the Grub boot loader so a fresh partition is created with Gutsy Gibbon and other existing OSes like Feisty Fawn or Fedora.
Known Issues
Post-Installation Setup
Notes
Default Non-free Drivers
The Intel PRO 3945ABG wireless network card requires drivers in the Restricted Repository which are non-free.
