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Lenovo Thinkpad X60s

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

CPU

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

Ethernet

  • eth0 (Intel e1000)
Packages:
Kernel Modules: e1000
Programs: ifconfig route

I seem to have a problem with latency with the e1000. SSH connections even to machines directly on the same switch have a very noticeable lag from typing to displaying.

lspci says:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82573L Gigabit Ethernet Controller
03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications, Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01)
Packages: madwifi-ng madwifi-ng-tool
Kernel Modules: ath_pci ath_hal ath_sample_rate wep wep_scan_sta wlan_wep
Programs: iwconfig ifconfig wlanconfig iwlist route

IDE/ATA/SATA Harddrive / Optical Drive

TODO
lspci says:

00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller (rev 02)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) Serial ATA Storage Controller AHCI (rev 02)

Harddisk

The Harddisk is connected to the SATA bus.

My harddisk showed a frequent “clicking”. One of the ways (probably not the best) to get rid of this is to disable Power Management on the drive: # hdparm -B 255 /dev/sda /dev/sda: setting Advanced Power Management level to disabled

CD / DVD Drive

The CD-R/RW / DVD-R/+R/-RW/+RW/-RAM optical drive (aka. Multi-Burner) in the X6 Ultrabase Docking Station is connected to the regular IDE controller, and appears as /dev/hda

The Harddisk is connected to the SATA bus.

Packages:
Kernel Modules: ahci (compiled into kernel)
Programs:

Framebuffer Stuff

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.

Packages:
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X11

The X60s has a Intel 855GM Graphics controller. lspci says:

00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)

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.
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Soundcard

TODO
lspci says:

00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition Audio Controller (rev 02)
Packages: alsa-headers alsa-utils alsa-lib
Kernel Modules: snd-hda-intel
Programs: alsamixer alsactl …

SMBus

TODO
lspci says:

00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 02)

aka. System Management Bus, a I2C derived bus. Often used to connect temperature sensors to.

Packages:
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LPC Bus

TODO
lspci says:

00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge (rev 02)

according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low_Pin_Count the LPC Bus is a Low Pin Count Bus that “legacy” devices like parallel/serial port, keyboard, mouse, …

Packages:
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Parallel Port

TODO
The parallel port is part of the X6 Ultrabase docking station.

Packages:
Kernel Modules:
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Serial Port

TODO
The serial port is part of the X6 Ultrabase docking station.

Packages:
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PC-Card Slot

TODO
lspci says:

15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev b4)
Packages:
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Firewire

TODO
lspci says:

15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C552 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 09)
Packages:
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USB

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  
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Bluetooth

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

Packages:
Kernel Modules:
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WWAN / WAN / EV-DO Wireless Modem

TODO
connected to USB.

Packages:
Kernel Modules:
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Fingerprint Reader

TODO
connected to USB.

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Inrared / IrDA

TODO

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SD Card Reader

TODO
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)
Packages:
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HDAPS

Hard Disk Active Protection System
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_protect_the_harddisk_through_APS
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi

Packages: hdapsd, tp_smapi
Kernel Modules: thinkpad_ec, hdaps, tp_smapi (all three from tp_smapi)
Programs: hdapsd

emerge --config =hdapsd-20060409 says:

  * We don't have a patch for kernel 2.6.18 yet

Apparently, one of the above three modules probits the resume from suspend-to-ram.

Power Management

Suspend-to-RAM

Packages:
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Suspend to Disk

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

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