Installing Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) on a ThinkPad T43p

Items that work out of the box

• Hibernation

• Wireless

• Sound from speakers and headphoenes. Note that no notification is displayed when adjusting volume because of this bug

• TrackPoint

• TouchPad

• Volume Buttons

• Fn button
  • Screen Brightnesss
  • Display Switch
  • ThinkLight
  • Toggeling Status of wireless radio and bluetooth
  • etc

Items that may require tweaking

Configuring the TrackPoint

configure-trackpoint can be used to adjust the TrackPoint's sensitivity, speed and other settings. Since configure-trackpoint depends on sysfsutils, run...

sudo apt-get install sysfsutils

...before installing it's deb file from here. Run it using...

sudo configure-trackpoint

Vertical Scrolling by TrackPoint's Middle-button

In Ubuntu clicking the TrackPoint's middle-button pastes instead of scrolling vertically. To fix this, vertical scrolling must be enabled and paste by middle-button must be disabled the for the TrackPoint. Create "mouse-wheel.fdi" in "/etc/hal/fdi/policy/" using something like...

sudo gedit "/etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi"

...and enter the following into it...

<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelTimeout" type="string">200</merge>
</match>

Hard Drive Active Protection System

The hard drive active protection system was enabled using these instructions.