Installing Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope (9.04) on an X301

Please improve on this preliminary effort.

Overview

Installation was done with a fresh Ubuntu 9.04 (x86, 32 bit). Overall impression: an installation without severe glitches so far :-)

Keyboard

Pretty much all of the Fn+... keys work (not all tested yet) tested: lock screen, brightness, sleep, hibernation, battery status, thinklight

To make the Mute button work add the kernel option acpi_osi="Linux" .

Ethernet

Works out of the box.

Wireless

Works out of the box.

Bluetooth

untested.

Fan

It is spinning lightly (2000-5000 rpm) almost all the time, rather the same situation as on Windows XP. To get the X301 silent and cool, ThinkPad Fan Control may be a solution. However, a X301 fan profile is still missing. (Perhaps someone might provide a profile?). On Jaunty System>Administration Fan Control Panels does not work. You have to start it manually in the Terminal with sudo tpfan-admin

Power Management

Seems to work fine - not fully tested yet.

Display

Works fine :-)

Suspend and Hibernate

Both work out of the box.

Sound

Works out of the box. Plugging in headphone or microphone will mute the internal devices and switch to external jacks.

Untested remain:

• usage with a sound server (esd)

Camera

Works out of the box (tested with Cheese) but on repeated use it often fails or blocks. Reloading the uvcvideo kernel module resets the camera.

External Displays

Works out of the box (dual screen and mirror screens). Tested with an Acer AL2223W monitor.

Compiz / 3D Acceleration

Works. But the performance of the intel driver in 9.04 is not optimal.

Boot time

About 20s including time spent in BIOS and POST.

Fingerprint Reader

Doesn't currently work as it's an AuthenTec and not a Thompson chip. Linux driver is missing. Any news here?

Credits

Article skeleton from the Ubuntu 8.10 on X301 article of Blk - Thanks a lot for your work!

Last Revision 24. April 2009 by --Blk