Installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on a ThinkPad T61

General Information

Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) was released on 29 October 2009.

Hardware Support Details

Untested

Video 2D/3D

• Intel (GMA X3100): works

WiFi

• Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG: works
• ThinkPad 11a/b/g (Atheros): works with ath5k driver (in upgrade from 9.04, had to add ath5k module to /etc/modules for autoloading)
• ThinkPad 11a/b/g/n (Atheros): unknown
• Front switch (airplane mode): unknown

Ethernet (Intel Gigabit): works

Webcam: unknown

Audio (AD1984 HD): works

• Headphones: works
• Microphone: unknown

Special Keys (volume, Fn-, ThinkVantage):

• ThinkVantage button: go to System -> Preferences -> Keyboard Shortcuts and assign a task to it.
• Fn-F5 (Wireless/Bluetooth): works by default
• Fn-F8 (Enable/Disable touchpad): works by default

Fingerprint Reader: works if installing thinkfinger-tools and libpam-thinkfinger

sudo aptitude -y install thinkfinger-tools libpam-thinkfinger

Active Protection System: unknown

Card Reader: unknown

Bluetooth: unknown

Modem: unknown

FireWire (IEEE1394): unknown

ACPI

• Suspend: works running the restricted 185 nvidia driver, and on intel
• Hibernate: works, though not as well smoothly as in previous releases

DVD Drive

• Ultrabay Slim DVD-ROM Drive: unknown
• Ultrabay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo II Drive: unknown
• Ultrabay Slim Super Multi-Burner Drive : works

Tested: Worked "out of the box"

Video 2D/3D

• NVidia (Quadro NVS 140M): works (needs proprietary driver for hardware acceleration)

WiFi

• Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN: works

Touchpad: works

Touchpoint (including middle-click scrolling): works but scrolling does not

Tested: Needed tweaking to obtain full functionality

• Trackpoint vertical/horizontal scrolling functional after creating /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi

<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.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
 <merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
</match>

Fix for the fingerprint reader getting too hot

Use the last script from here, but note that in Karmic, the correct path is:

/sys/class/usbmon/usbmon*/device/usb*/*

Install HDAPS - IBM Active Protection System Linux Driver

sudo cp /etc/modules /etc/modules_backup
sudo aptitude install tp-smapi-source
sudo module-assistant prepare tp-smapi
sudo module-assistant auto-install tp-smapi
sudo modprobe tp-smapi
sudo aptitude install hdapsd
echo 'tp-smapi' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

Tested: Non-functioning

• None tested yet