Installing Debian 5.0 (Lenny) on a ThinkPad X201i
HW Overview
Lenovo ThinkPad X201, model 3323BFG ThinkPad BIOS 6QET47WW (1.17 ), EC 6QHT29WW-1.10
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 0044 (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Device 0046 (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 10ea (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak 6 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Ibex Peak Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
02:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Device 4239 (rev 35)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2c62 (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2d01 (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2d10 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2d11 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2d12 (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Device 2d13 (rev 02)
$ lsusb
Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04cf:8818 Myson Century, Inc. USB2.0 to ATAPI Bridge Controller
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 006: ID 0a5c:217f Broadcom Corp. Bluetooth Controller
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 147e:2016 Upek Biometric Touchchip/Touchstrip Fingerprint Sensor
Bus 001 Device 005: ID 17ef:4816 Lenovo.
Bus 001 Device 002: ID 8087:0020 Intel Corp. Integrated Rate Matching Hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
4x CPU:
processor : 1
vendor_id : GenuineIntel
cpu family : 6
model : 37
model name : Intel(R) Core(TM) i3 CPU M 370 @ 2.40GHz
stepping : 5
cpu MHz : 933.000
cache size : 3072 KB
physical id : 0
siblings : 2
core id : 0
cpu cores : 1
apicid : 1
initial apicid : 1
fdiv_bug : no
hlt_bug : no
f00f_bug : no
coma_bug : no
fpu : yes
fpu_exception : yes
cpuid level : 11
wp : yes
flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr
sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni dtes64
monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 popcnt lahf_lm arat tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid
bogomips : 4788.49
clflush size : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
# hdparm -tT /dev/sda
/dev/sda:
Timing cached reads: 3834 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1918.04 MB/sec
Timing buffered disk reads: 260 MB in 3.01 seconds = 86.44 MB/sec
USB Boot
Distribution kernel in Debian Lenny 2.6.26-2-686 does not want to boot. Boot works ok with the kernel from backports (2.6.32-bpo.5-686)
Devices support
Video
$ cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old
(--) PCI:*(0:2:0) Intel Corporation unknown chipset (0x0046) rev 2, Mem @ 0xf2000000/22, 0xd0000000/28, I/O @ 0x1800/3
xorg then detecs just a general vesa driver: it uses the correct resolution, but has no video acceleration, no external monitor, no dynamic resolution change
Brigthness control
Display brightness controll with Vesa driver does not work (neither keys nor Gnome controls). thinkpad_acpi requries an option to enable it (modprobe thinkpad_acpi brightness_enable=1) and the /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness appears. Brightness can be then controlled via
# echo down > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness# echo up > /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
and FnHome/End keys work only after the first suspend/resume. (??)
Intel Wireless Display
All Core i3 processors have a nice feature to display the video over WiFi connection, see e.g. http://www.intel.com/consumer/products/technology/wirelessdisplay.htm, which is even not mentioned in the X201i specifications. However it needs some software support and it seems none at least thinks about it for Linux (http://scoop.intel.com/2010/06/thinking-about-getting-an-intelr-wireless-display-pc-get-the-netgear-push2tv-adapter-for-only-50.php,http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+%22intel+wireless+display%22)
WLAN
module iwlagn + firmware iwlwifi-6000-4.ucode ie. from firmware-iwlwifi_0.27_all.deb (http://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-iwlwifi)
If firmware is not installed, it complains in the syslog
iwlagn 0000:02:00.0: iwlwifi-6000-3.ucode firmware file req failed: -2
Enable/disable via FnF5 or via network-manager
Ethernet
module e1000e, works ok
Sound
module snd-hda-intel works ok, incl. headphones
Bluetooth
works ok, enable/disable only via
# echo "enable" > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
# echo "disable" > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
ThinkLight
works ok, turn on/off via FnPgUp or /proc/acpi/ibm/light
WebCam
[ 54.179306] uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device Integrated Camera (17ef:4816) [ 54.180708] usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo
not tested yet.
TouchPad/TrackPoint
work both ok, incl. touchpoint page scrolling on the right side
[ 54.653913] Synaptics Touchpad, model: 1, fw: 7.4, id: 0x1e0b1, caps: 0xd047b1/0xb40000/0xa0000 [ 54.706403] input: SynPS/2 Synaptics TouchPad as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/input/input6 [ 61.530602] IBM TrackPoint firmware: 0x0e, buttons: 3/3 [ 61.808056] input: TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint as /devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/input/input8
Keyboard
Hint: In Gnome select keyboard type IBM ThinkPad - special keys like "next/prev page" then work
Check the page How to get special keys to work to setup other special and/or Fn keys.
Fingerprint reader
not tested
Fixed line modem
not tested
Security Chip
not tested
Active Protection System
not tested
Card Reader
works ok (tested SD card)
Power Management
Suspend to RAM
Not working, probably depends on video driver (suspends, but does not resume)
Suspend to disk
Works out of the box
acpid
Acpid does not work without /proc/acpi/event (2.6.29+), force install of new version from lenny backports (http://packages.debian.org/lenny-backports/acpid)
cpufreq
Frequence scaling via cpufreq ok
$ cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_available_frequencies
2399000 2266000 2133000 1999000 1866000 1733000 1599000 1466000 1333000 1199000 1066000 933000
CPU enable/disable
CPU enabling/disabling works via
# echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online# echo 1 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu2/online
but even turning off 3 of them does not seem to influence the power consumption when running on battery.
