Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) on a ThinkPad A30p

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This is a documentation of some of the installation and configuration steps required for installing Debian/Sarge on a Thinkpad A30p and getting the most out of it.

Basic installation

The recommended procedure is, to get a Debian/Sarge DVD put it in the DVD-drive and boot from the DVD. Proceed with the installation as on an arbitrary computer.

Components

ACPI

For a detailed description of how to operate ACPI on IBM Thinkpads, take a look at How to make ACPI work. Further it explains the steps necessary to get suspend to ram and hibernation to work. (The combination FnF12 which should put your Thinkpad into hibernation doesn't generate the proper acpi event.)

Tv output

The A30p is supplied with an ATI Radeon Mobility 7000 graphics adapter. It comes with a tv output and a tv input connector. Read How to get SVideo output on Radeon/Rage chips to work.

Kernel

This is a short summary on the kernel features needed on the A30p. The supplied kernel in Debian/Sarge is 2.6.8. It is advisable to get a newer Version. You can use either a newer debianized kernel or get a vanilla kernel. At the time this documentation is written, the latest known version is 2.6.12.4.

Enable support for: (recommended: as Module or Statically compiled in )

  • Modules and module unloading
  • Support for Pentium-III processor
  • ACPI (how to make it work) S
  • cpu-freq with ondemand governor (alternatively userspace governor) S
  • PIIX chipset
  • IDE/ATA drives and floppy (at least HDD S or initrd needed)
  • PCMCIA - Yenta cardbus
  • e100 network device M
  • usb-uhci for usb host controller M
  • i810 sound card M
  • nvram M
  • i2c M
  • AGP and radeon support M

(not yet completed)

Software

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