Installing Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) on a ThinkPad T61p
This page describes issues and solutions for getting Ubuntu 9.04 working on a T61p.
Contents
Hardware
Works Out of the Box
- Wireless (Intel 3945ABG or 4965AGN)
- Touchpoint
- Trackpad
- Trackpad scrolling
- Sound card
- Volume up/down/mute buttons
- Audio out
- FN keys
- numlock
- Lock computer
- Battery information
- Screen brightness control
- Thinklight control
- sleep
- WLAN/BT on/off toggle
- Media player control
- Wired LAN
- ultranav scrolling
- Optical drive
- SD/MMC Memory card reader
- ACPI
- Battery status, power graphs, and history
- Lid open/close
Needs Tweaks
- Video
- No option to load proprietary drivers, unable to turn on effects.
- ACPI
- Suspend to RAM - monitor doesnt turn on on wake up.
Doesn't Work
Untested
- Sound card
- Audio in
- fingerprint reader
- ACPI
- Suspend to Disk
- Suspend-to-RAM/Suspend-to-Disk under full disk LVM encryption
Other Issues
Compared to 8.10
Improvements
Bugs and Regressions
As mentioned, the restricted Nvidia driver does not load by default. However, the driver can be loaded by enabling the restricted repository and running the following command:
sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180 //for the driver sudo apt-get install nvidia-settings //for the Nvidia utility