Installing Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick) on a ThinkPad T61

General Information

Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat)

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 by default
• Front switch (airplane mode): works by default

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
• Fn.F4 (Sleep button) works by default with Ubuntu and proprietary NVidia driver

Hint:

People have had problems with certain keys interfering with further keyboard input. See [1] for a possible solution.

Touchpad: works by default

Touchpoint: works by default

Hint:

If you want use the middle button for scrolling you must do this:

1. Use your favorite editor for creating following file - e.g.: sudo vim /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/20-thinkpad.conf

2. Enter this text to the newly created 20-thinkpad.conf:

  Section "InputClass"
    Identifier "Trackpoint Wheel Emulation"
    MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint"
    MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
    Option "EmulateWheel" "true"
    Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2"
    Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false"
    Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7"
    Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5"
  EndSection

3. Save file and reboot your laptop.

Fingerprint reader: works but there is a bug in sudo, introduced in version 1.7.2p2 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/sudo/+bug/609645)

ACPI

• Suspend: works by default

Help needed

Suspend hasn't worked for me since one of the Lucid updates. The machine starts to sleep, but it just gets really hot and never suspends. I've been unable to find a workaround.

• Hibernate: works by default

Help needed

Hibernate works, but is slower than just shutting everything down and restarting it. Is this a problem, or does it really take that long to write that much data to disk?

Bluetooth: works by default

DVD Drive

• Ultrabay Slim Super Multi-Burner Drive : works by default

Audio (82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio): works by default

• Headphones: works by default
• Microphone: works by default

Card Reader: works by default

Install HDAPS - IBM Active Protection System Linux Driver

To install the Active Protection System execute the following commands:

$ sudo apt-get -y install tp-smapi-dkms hdapsd

$ sudo modprobe tp-smapi

$ sudo /etc/init.d/hdapsd restart

$ echo 'tp-smapi' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules