Installing Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) on a ThinkPad X200

Overview

This page is intended to evolve into a more recent version of Installing Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a ThinkPad X200.

Upgrading from 8.10 may not be a painless process. There are regressions (at least with the X200Tablet).

Saving Windows

The factory install of Windows on your hard disk is likely the only copy you have (aside from, perhaps, an downgrade disk for XP). If you were planning to use Windows, the first thing you would do is to back this up. Even if you don't plan on using Windows, you may wish to back it up anyway. See other installation instructions for details. You don't need to register to do it (ie, you can save a raw disk image using the Ubuntu LiveCD, without booting Windows). But backing up Windows may be the hardest part of the entire installation process.

Install Ubuntu

If you have an UltraBase, the CD install should just work.

Resolve Issues

• Display - now just works.
• Trackpoint - now just works. For customizing the calibration, see link.
• Wireless (Intel 5100) - seems to just work.
• Bluetooth - untested.
• Broadband (AT&T) - untested.
• Camera - seems to just work (install cheese).

untested

• Speakers
• Headphones (laptop, base)
• Mic (camera, laptop, base)
• Skype
• UltraBase VGA
• Power Mgmt
• HDD clicking. (but I haven't heard a click (on AC) since install).
• HDAPS and drive parking
• HDAPS as tilt sensor
• GPS (AT&T)
• Fingerprint reader
• Temperature sensors

Suspend and Hibernate

While they don't immediately fail, very limited testing suggests they cause later system flakiness (after suspending and then hibernating, a new synaptic hung while installing cheese).

There are notes in Installing Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) and Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a ThinkPad X200#Suspend_and_Hibernate.

Sound

Doesn't seem to be working out of the box, at least while on ultrabase. See the 8.10 doc.

X200 Tablet

There is old information in Category:X61 Tablet, especially Installing Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on a ThinkPad X61 Tablet, and in Wacom Serial Tablet PC Stylus.

• Wacom stylus - seems to just work.
• Wacom touch - "works", but is still miscalibrated, so the cursor position doesn't match your finger position.
• Screen rotation - the old scripts don't work in 9.04.

Wacom touch calibration

There are old instruction for adjusting the calibration ... somewhere. They will have to be dug up and modified for the new, bare, "works" out of the box xorg.conf.

Screen rotation

Neither the old xrandr+xsetwacom scripts, nor xrandr by itself, work in 9.04. But it looks like a modified script might work?