This place serves as documentation for my Lenovo Thinkpad X60s Setup under Linux.

I have a X60s 1704-69U (aka 170469U). I'm using Gentoo (currently 2006.0)

Until organized, it'll just be a wild collection of bits and pieces.

Suspend-to-disk implementations explained and compared: http://suspend2.net/features.html#compare
Knock-based commands for your Linux laptop: http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knockage.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01Knock-Knock
Primary Resource for Linux on Thinkpads: http://www.thinkwiki.org
Setting up power management stuff under Gentoo: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml
HOWTO Software Suspend v2 on Gentoo: http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Software_Suspend_v2
The madwifi driver for the built-in Atheros-based WLAN card does not seem to support powermanagement yet: http://madwifi.org/ticket/447
Suspend/Resume Problems with SATA/AHCI: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problems_with_SATA_and_Linux

• Processor L2400 @ 1.66GHz
  • SMP
  • CPU frequency scaling (1000MHz, 1333MHz, 1666MHz)

• eth0 (Intel e1000)
• WLAN/Wifi: Atheros Card, running with drivers from www.madwifi.org

• until I set CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU, it didn't even succeed to suspend. After this was set, suspending worked, but resuming needed some more work (see the following)
• you need to give the kernel the following parameter: acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode
• needs at least 2.6.18-rc1 together with some patches:
  • http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gnychis/ahci-patch1
  • http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gnychis/ahci-patch2
  • http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gnychis/ahci-patch3
  • http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gnychis/ahci-patch4
  • http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gnychis/ahci-patch5
  • http://www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/gnychis/ahci-patch6
• (this information is based on what I found here: http://farmerzonen.dk/x60s#comment-497 )
• I tried 2.6.17 (gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r4) but after the resume the SATA controller didn't work right (problems with ahci). From a few things I read, it might be possible to get it to work with 2.6.17, but only if the SATA controller is put in something like “compatibility mode” (as opposed to AHCI mode) in the BIOS. I haven't checked this.

TODO
(I'm still reading up on it, not doing much yet)

TODO
I'd like to be able to watch videos and view images without X under the console, so I want to use mplayer and an image viewer with fbdev.

I've built Xorg with i810, vesa, fbdev and vga drivers enabled. I use i810 as xorg driver.

• I had to use xorg from ~x86, these are the packages:
  • xorg-x11-7.1
  • xorg-server-1.1.1
  • xf86-video-i810-1.6.1

DRI now works (but maybe not 100%). I had to disable drm in the kernel completetly. Then I rebuilt x11-drm (version 20060608). There were still problems because the drm.ko module wasn't copied to /lib/modules/`uname -r`/x11-drm along with the others (eg. i810.ko, i915.ko). To quickly fix it, I re-emerged x11-drm, froze the build process with Ctrl-s after drm.ko was done building, and copied that module to its proper place, then I let the build process resume with Ctrl-q.

• for DRI to work, both agpgart and intel-agp have to be loaded.

TODO

TODO
fingerprint reader, bluetooth, wwan modem are USB-based, so they are only visible if usb-uhci is loaded. lsusb shows devices on the USB bus:

Bus 005 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 004 Device 004: ID 0a5c:2110 Broadcom Corp. 
Bus 004 Device 003: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1199:0218 Sierra Wireless, Inc. 
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000  

TODO
connected to USB. http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/bluetooth-guide.xml emerge bluez-utils

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connected to USB.

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connected to USB.

TODO

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The SD card reader is connected to the pci bus (check with lspci):

15:00.2 Class 0805: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 18)