Installing Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) on a ThinkPad T61

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General Information

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

Hardware Support Details

Untested

WiFi

• ThinkPad 11a/b/g/n (Atheros): unknown
• Front switch (airplane mode): unknown

Webcam: unknown

Active Protection System: unknown

Card Reader: unknown

Bluetooth: unknown

Modem: unknown

FireWire (IEEE1394): unknown

DVD Drive

• Ultrabay Slim DVD-ROM Drive: unknown
• Ultrabay Slim CD-RW/DVD-ROM Combo II Drive: unknown

Tested: Worked "out of the box"

Video 2D/3D

• NVidia (Quadro NVS 140M): works (needs proprietary driver for hardware acceleration)
• Intel (GMA X3100): works

WiFi

• Intel PRO/Wireless 4965AGN: works
• 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)

Ethernet (Intel Gigabit): works

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

Touchpad: works

Touchpoint: works but see below for scrolling

ACPI

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

DVD Drive

• Ultrabay Slim Super Multi-Burner Drive : works

Audio (AD1984 HD): works

• Headphones: works
• Microphone: works

Tested: Needed tweaking to obtain full functionality

Enabling Trackpoint scrolling

To get vertical/horizontal scrolling working create /etc/hal/fdi/policy/mouse-wheel.fdi and add the following to 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.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>

ATTENTION!

This did not work for me.

Enabling multi-touch touchpad

To get get the multi-touch on the touchpad working (two-finger scrolling, etc) create /etc/hal/fdi/policy/11-x11-synaptics.fdi and add the following to it:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<deviceinfo version="0.2">
 <device>
   <match key="info.capabilities" contains="input.touchpad">
       <merge key="input.x11_driver" type="string">synaptics</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_options.SHMConfig" type="string">On</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateTwoFingerMinZ" type="string">90</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_options.VertTwoFingerScroll" type="string">1</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_options.HorizTwoFingerScroll" type="string">1</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton1" type="string">1</merge>
       <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton2" type="string">3</merge>  <!--two finger tap -> middle clieck(3) -->
       <merge key="input.x11_options.TapButton3" type="string">2</merge>  <!--three finger tap -> right click(2). almost impossible to click -->
   </match>
 </device>
</deviceinfo>

Then restart HAL with:

$ sudo service hal restart

Instructions courtesy of ubuntu snippets.

Enabling the fingerprint reader

Install the thinkfinger-tools and libpam-thinkfinger packages then execute:

$ sudo /usr/lib/pam-thinkfinger/pam-thinkfinger-enable

to enable the fingerprint reader. To capture the user's fingerprint run:

$ tf-tool --acquire $USERNAME

you can then verify it with:

$ tf-tool --verify

Fix for fingerprint reader getting to 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

To install the Active Protection System execute the following commands:

$ 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'

Tested: Non-functioning

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