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 either:
    • Enabling the restricted repository and running $ sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180
    • Installing the envyng-core package and running $ envyng -t
• 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

• fingerprint reader

Compared to 8.10

Bugs and Regressions

• Restricted Driver panel does not immediately suggest the installation of the Nvidia binary driver as it did in previous releases. See fixes in Tweaks section.
• Card Reader doesn't work with latest Jaunty kernels. Fix mentioned above in Tweaks section