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
  • Nvidia drivers can be loaded by installing the envyng-core package and running envyng -t. I Chose the recommended 180 version and 3D acceleration appears to be working properly.
• ACPI
  • Suspend to RAM - monitor doesnt turn on on wake up.
• ThinkFinger

 Append following line to '/etc/apt/sources.list':
 deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jon-oberheide/ubuntu jaunty main
 Execute:
 sudo apt-get install thinkfinger-tools libpam-thinkfinger libthinkfinger0
 Restart
 Execute:
 tf-tool --acquire && tf-tool --verify

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