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.

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.

Untested

• Sound card
  • Audio in
• fingerprint reader
• ACPI
  • Suspend to Disk
  • Suspend-to-RAM/Suspend-to-Disk under full disk LVM encryption

Compared to 8.10

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