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
  • Suspend to RAM (with lvm encryption, but this shouldn't matter)

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.
• Sound In:
  • Must be unmuted in Volume Control (Click on volume tray icon, click on Volume Control, select Capture: HDA Intel - AD198x)
  • Internal mic is very quiet relative to line in, so you may have to turn it above 100% using the Manager utility from the padevchooser package.
• 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

Doesn't Work

• ACPI
  • Suspend to Disk (tested with LVM encryption): Successfully unlocks encrypted volume and starts "waking up stage." Video then becomes corrupted and computer locks up.

Untested

• Sound card
  • Audio in
• fingerprint reader

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