Debian Multimedia :: DE For Older Thinkpad T41?
Jul 21, 2010
I was wondering if anyone uses older laptops (for e.g., Centrino M) like Thinkpads from the T40-series.I am finding LXDE to be extremely buggy. There's been more than one occasion in which I've been totally surprised at weird 'events.' It's been so often that it annoys me now and I wish to switch DEs now.
I guess my choices are Gnome, KDE and xfce. I think KDE 4 will be too bloated so I guess that leaves Gnome and xfce. I also read that LXDE is actually a 'beta' (release?) even though LXDE versions are in 'release' form. I come across too many 'bugs' so I think the other desktops, even if it takes up a bit more resources, is a compromise I have to take.
Is xfce the best choice for an older laptop like mine? I thought LXDE sounded great and had great potential but the amount of bugs I find and the fact it looks like there's not much of a team developing and working on it, is disconcerting. Hopefully, things will improve but I don't want to work out or encounter 'bugs' on my laptop so often.
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Jul 9, 2010
I'm trying to choose between the Lenovo Thinkpad W500 and the older T61p. The W500 is said to have a higher quality display than the T61p, however there seem to be more problems with running Linux on it. One of the reasons for this is the fact that it has switchable graphics, with one of the GPUs being an ATI FireGL. The older T61p comes with Nvidia Quadro FX only, which as we know is more Linux-friendly.
Which model should I choose? Will certain issues such as being able to suspend / resume be cleared up with newer kernel releases?
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Dec 21, 2014
I did some mess with adobe flash player and now I have no soound on my Thinkpad T60.
root@debian:/etc/modprobe.d# dpkg -l|grep alsa
ii alsa-base 1.0.25+3~deb7u1 all ALSA driver configuration files
ii alsa-utils 1.0.25-4 i386 Utilities for configuring and using ALSA
ii bluez-alsa:i386 4.99-2 i386 Bluetooth ALSA support
ii libsox-fmt-alsa 14.4.0-3 i386 SoX alsa format I/O library
ii libwine-alsa:i386 1.4.1-4 i386 Windows API implementation - ALSA sound module
[CODE]..
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May 15, 2011
I have no audio on thinkpad x120e.
Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA) (rev 40)
kernel: 2.6.38-bpo.2-686
alsamixer shows 1 square in the middle (S/PDIF). code...
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Feb 5, 2010
This used to work. I don't know why it doesn't now.
It works on the Windows XP partition.
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Jul 29, 2010
I can't get sound to work and am not sure how to trouble shoot. The sound DOES work when first booting, and I can make it play a test beep with the sound config app. But I cannot get sound from any other application. One possibly relevant fact is that I see a lot of I/O errors early in the boot process, but they flash by quickly so I cannot quote them.
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Oct 30, 2010
I have a Thinkpad edge. I am travelling right now, and will be for the next 2 weeks, and just discovered that my thinkpad's internam microphone won't work. Plugging in an external one won't work either.This means that I won't be able to communicate with friends & family for 2 weeks... any help to patch this problem will be IMMENSELY welcome.
Symptoms are strange: I can go to Sound Preferences, select Analog Stereo Duplex as hardware, click on "Input", change the input volume, mute it, unmute it... everything works fine. However, if I tap against the mike, the input level bit doesn't move at all. Needless to say, nothing sees it.
Here is the output of the ALSA Information script... which looks like greek to me! Help...
!!################################
!!ALSA Information Script v 0.4.59
!!################################
!!Script ran on: Sat Oct 30 13:28:44 UTC 2010
!!Linux Distribution
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Dec 8, 2010
I had taken a long break from Ubuntu, but now I'm back on it. I just installed 9.10 Karmic on my Lenovo Thinkpad R61i, and it's beautiful....except there's no sound.
I have gone through the Comprehensive Sound Problem Solutions Guide, to no avail. As well, I have searched the all of the Internets, and still have no sound.
Here is some system info:
Code:
tomdabomb2u@tomdabomb2u-thinkpad:~$ aplay -l
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: Intel [HDA Intel], device 0: CONEXANT Analog [CONEXANT Analog]
Subdevices: 1/1
code....
I also added options snd-hda-intel model=thinkpad to the end of my /etc/modprobe.d/alsa-base.conf file. Still nothing. I would really like to hear the Antoine Dodson song on my laptop...not sure how much longer I can go.
Note: Everything in Sound Preferences appears to be working, I just still can't HEAR anything.
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Jan 2, 2011
after a recent foray into Ubuntu. Every day is a school day at the moment, so please be gentle! I recently obtained an old IBM Thinkpad T41 which I've made dual boot Windows XP and Ubuntu (windows was my backup option - it's installed but with none of the drivers; thankfully I've not yet hit a problem Ubuntu can't handle!) and which is connected up to the TV in our lounge. I have installed XBMC on it, and we're currently enjoying having access to all sorts of multi-media and iPlayer in the lounge. The thinkpad connects to our home network wirelessly, using the Thinkpad's built in wireless hardware - providing a whopping 11Mbps connection. Our media is all stored on NAS on the network, and I thought that even full 54Mbps wireless would not be fast enough to stream videos smoothly onto another machine.
However we have two windows laptops (one windows 7, one windows xp) which have 54Mbps connections and they can stream the videos smoothly from the NAS, so clearly I was wrong (wer'e not talking High def or blue ray rips here or anything). So my first question. Does anyone have an recommendations of a 54Mbps wireless card (PCMCIA preferably) that is compatible with both Ubuntu and the Thinkpad so that I can improve it's connection speed to the network? I have a "Max Value" branded card in the windows xp laptop (bought cheaply from Amazon) that I tried to but failed miserably to get working in the Thinkpad with Ubuntu last night. All hints and tips welcome....
Second question: Improving video playback on the thinkpad. Some of the videos were a bit choppy, which I thought was just to do with video quality. However having been playing them on the windows xp laptop - Sony Vaio PCG-FR215S, so similar in age and processor speed to the thinkpad - they play absolutely perfectly. So what are my options for improving the video playback on the Thinkpad running Ubuntu? - Upgrade memory to 1GB from 512MB? Will this make much difference? The sony has been upgraded to 1GB, which is why I ask the question. Do I have any options on the dedicated graphics processing hardware front? I'm guessing they are severely restricted as it's a laptop, but thought I'd ask as obviously I'd only be interested in something that is supported by Ubuntu.
Nvidia acceleration is enabled in Ubuntu, and in XBMC. The playback quality in XBMC is comparable with using VLC so I don't think there is anything XBMC specific to be concerned with at the moment.
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May 10, 2009
I am reciving a strange backtrace furing the boot process of an IBM thinkpad 600 with debian lenny. The errors appear to be in the 'cs' module, but I'm not sure. Also the "Waiting for /dev to be fully populated..." script in which the backtrace occours also hangs and hasto be Control-C'd, or you have to wait for it to time out. Attached is my syslog
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Dec 28, 2010
I have an old laptop I bought for $20 & thought I'd install Linux & XP in a dual-boot. It couldn't handle the MINT installer, so I thought I'd go with Debian. XP was already on there, so I ran the Debian install CD (LXDE), set up the 2nd partition, and finished installation. It rebooted once, but since then will not load Debian.
I get the GRUB menu, pick the default (not single user), it runs through all the lines of text down to the block that says "starting gnome display manager gdm" & maybe 4 lines after that (which I can't read in time)... then the screen goes blank, there's a brief flicker, the CPU thinks a bunch, and then there's usually a low-pitched BOOP at which point the CPU stops thinking & the screen just stays blank. The power is still on, but nothing happens.
Anyway, I don't know if it has an ATI card or whatever (saw something online alluding to that being a problem.) I also don't know how to use the single user mode, or how to display error messages, or do anything useful in the command line. Haha... But I'm a novice programmer & "computer literate" outside of Linux, so I can learn.
The laptop has 128MB of memory (which functions perfectly according to MemTest 86), I think a 450MHz PIII processor, 20GB HD (split between XP and Linux), a dead battery, a slightly damaged Power Supply, damaged screen...
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Sep 26, 2010
I've installed a clean Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx on my ThinkPad T61, and everything seems to be OK, but I am unable to get any sound output at all (internal speakers and external audio).
No system sounds, no sound from Movie Player, Rythmbox, Sound Recorder.
On my previous Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.10 I had no problems with sound (as far as I can recall).
Any hints to what I should do to try to get sound output?
The output from various sound related commands included below.
Code:
$ sudo lshw -C sound
*-multimedia
description: Audio device
product: 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller
code....
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Jul 9, 2011
I installed the debian 6 on the tninkpad T42, use the Suspend,it can entry the suspend state，I type the key let it come back, it can exit the suspend state, But the screen always display "black",can't come back the X window.
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Mar 29, 2010
I have same problem described here:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Problem_w ... e_clicking
The command: #hdparm -B 254 /dev/hda -- works
Now, I should create:
an executable file named 00DISK in /etc/pm/sleep.d with the following content
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Apr 6, 2011
Anyone have any comments or issues with running debian on a Thinkpad SL510?
[URL]
It has the Intel GM45 chipset, Intel Core 2 Duo, and Intel GMA 4500MHD video. I guess I am concerned about the wireless as well but cannot seem to fine the brand card it has.
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Mar 8, 2011
I have just bought a used Lenovo Thinkpad R61. Most of the things works in Squeeze like it did with Vista. But a bit annoying is that when i Vista with the "Fn-F5" could turn both wireless and bluetooth on and off. Now it is only wireless that works that way. On the top panel i can turn both wireless and bluetooth on and off, but it is still annnnoying. Is the a way to make all keys funktion on my Thinkpad?
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Aug 21, 2011
flash videos fail with the "an error occurred. please try again later.". going to ..... and randomly selecting videos, it seems that any video submitted after 2008 most likely will not play. older videos play just fine. was there a format change somewhere along the line? i've searched here, but not found anything that covers this situation. there are no additional flash packages installed other than the two below.
suse 11.3
Linux nyx 2.6.34-12-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2010-06-29 02:39:08 +0200
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
Information for package flash-player:
Repository: @System
Name: flash-player
Version: 10.3.183.5-0.2.1
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Mar 28, 2010
I'm running Ubuntu 9.10 on an oldish IBM Thinkpad X32 (12.1in 1024x768 LCD, 16MB ATI Radeon). On the initial install of 9.10 I couldn't get any higher resolutions working, following the instructions in [URL]..
1024x768 resolution is running ok but some graphics are noticeably slow - a prime example is the "File Browser", switching from one app to this app, you see a grey window for a second, and then finally the File Manager displays.
Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "X.org Configured"
Screen 0 "Screen0" 0 0
# Screen "Screen0"
InputDevice "Mouse0" "CorePointer"
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Aug 6, 2010
It seems the latest nvidia drivers (255.44) don't seem to work on my Lenovo Thinkpad T61 in Lucid. Has anybody gotten it to work? I've tried to just use the System -> Drivers control panel to install and activate the current nvidia drivers as well as installing it from the command line. However, when I reboot, I see the nvidia splash screen come up for a second, then the screen goes blank, and then the nvidia splash screen pops up again, and then the screen goes blank again, over and over. It seems to be in some kind of infinite initialization loop. My T61 has the nvidia NVS 140m chipset. This is frustrating since the previous drivers seemed to work ok. When I try to revert to older drivers, it complains now that they're no longer compatible with the latest kernel headers, etc. I've had to boot up into the failsafe graphics mode to be able to use the laptop.
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Aug 10, 2011
I have a new Thinkpad T520 from work and am trying to put Debian 6 on it. I previously had a Thinkpad T42 and was able to install Debian 6. I recall having to find the driver and install it separately, so I downloaded all of the non-free drivers, but the network detection step doesn't seem to let me select my own driver.
I've been thru this at least 4 times, both the standard 6.01 and the AMD64 bit version, both behave the same. This has the (unfortunately) the Thinkpad b/g/n wireless card, but the wired ethernet is the Intel 82579LM gigabit. Seems there would be a driver with Debian 6 that would support that one.I can't stand running Windows 7.
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Apr 6, 2011
I have Lenovo Thinkpad R400 laptop. It has Intel Centrino Core 2 Duo processor with ATI Radeon 3400 series graphics card and Intel Mobility chipset series 4 Integrated graphics controller. I have Squeeze ( stable) installed on it with kernel 2.6.32-5-686 .
My laptop gets very hot within 10 minutes whether I do any task or not. Also battery life is almost 40% as compared to Windows. I am more worried about temperature as it remains completely cool in windows. Mostly CPU load remains around 10% and CPU spends 99.99% time at 800MHz clock. I believe heat generated is by graphics card chipset.
Following are some information about my machine
$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07)
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May 14, 2011
My wireless network is down. I got thinkpad x120e, chipset: Realtek RTL8188CE, driver: rtl819ce.
Here is what I did so far:
upgraded to 2.6.38-bpo.2-686
installed firmware-linux-nonfree
Added the firmware file from the repo since it's not yet packaged in firmware-realtek and reloaded the module.
'iwlist sc' shows: 'wlan0 Interface doesn't support scanning : Network is down'
'dmesg |tail -20' shows:
rtl8192ce:rtl92c_download_fw():<0-0> Failed to request firmware!
firmware 0000:04:00.0: firmware_loading_store: vmap() failed
I also tried the following commands:
ifdown wlan0 ; ifup wlan0
ifconfig wlan0 up
Relevant bug: [URL]
Step by step, in case someone is interested:
add to sources.list: deb [URl] squeeze-backports main
aptitude update
sudo aptitude -t squeeze-backports install linux-image-2.6.38-bpo.2-686
install this package: [URL]
get the first file: [URL]
add to driver:
mkdir -p /lib/firmware/rtlwifi
mv rtlwifi_rtl8192cfw.bin /lib/firmware/rtlwifi
modprobe -r rtl18192ce; modprobe rtl18192ce; dmesg | tail -20
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Sep 15, 2014
On wheezy 32-bit on thinkpad x40
Code: Select all# tail -30 /var/log/messages
Sep 15 11:52:12 X40 kernel: [ 146.227644] cdrom: Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
Sep 15 11:52:13 X40 kernel: [ 147.005390] UDF-fs: Partition marked readonly; forcing readonly mount
Sep 15 11:52:13 X40 kernel: [ 147.017161] UDF-fs: INFO Mounting volume 'Utility_HD-PXTU', timestamp 2010/05/12 14:24 (11e0)
Sep 15 11:52:14 X40 kernel: [ 147.821237] NTFS driver 2.1.30 [Flags: R/W MODULE].
Sep 15 11:52:14 X40 kernel: [ 147.919521] NTFS volume version 3.1.
[Code] ....
It will be okay for awhile after I unload & reload ipw2200 driver
Code: Select all# lspci | grep -i VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 82852/855GM Integrated Graphics Device (rev 02)
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Oct 27, 2015
I have Lenovo ThinkPad X230 (model 23202TG) laptop. I can not control brightness via Fn-keys. Tested with default 3.16 kernel and 4.2.3 kernel from backports. After system startup brightness set to max and Fn-keys does not work but correctly detected by xev.Tried to add "acpi_backlight=vendor" to kernel boot parameters, as suggested at ThinkWiki but this does not work.
In the logs I found this messages
Code: Select allkernel: thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.25
kernel: thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
kernel: thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS G2ETA4WW (2.64 ), EC unknown
kernel: thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo ThinkPad X230, model 23202TG
kernel: thinkpad_acpi: Unsupported brightness interface, please contact ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
kernel: thinkpad_acpi: radio switch found; radios are enabled
kernel: thinkpad_acpi: This ThinkPad has standard ACPI backlight brightness control, supported by the ACPI video driver
kernel: thinkpad_acpi: Disabling thinkpad-acpi brightness events by default...
After some googling I tried to add acpi_osi="!Windows 2012" and acpi_backlight=native to grub kernel options but this also does not work. On other hand I can adjust brightness by echo-ing some value to sysfs.
Here is some information
Code: Select all$ ls /sys/class/backlight/
intel_backlight
$ cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/max_brightness
4438
$ cat /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness
500
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Apr 6, 2016
I'm running Debian Stretch on a my new notebook ThinkPad T460
Code:
Select all Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux stretch/sid
Kernel: Linux 4.4.0-1-amd64
Architecture: x86-64
I can't use the internal wifi board:
Code: Select allBroadcom Corporation BCM4356 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter [14e4:43ec] (rev 02)
It should be supported since kernel 3.17+ (https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/use ... /brcm80211).I had it working for two reboots after I had installed `firmware-linux`
Code: Select allapt-get install firmware-linux
modprobe -r brcmfmac ; modprobe brcmfmac
but after that, I began to have this message during the startup (or, in `dmesg`, when I repeat the `modprobe` command)
Code: Select all[ 19.798890] brcmfmac 0000:04:00.0: firmware: failed to load brcm/brcmfmac4356-pcie.bin (-2)
[ 19.798921] brcmfmac 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load for brcm/brcmfmac4356-pcie.bin failed with error -2
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Aug 5, 2010
I had the fan go as I wanted with [URL] but now that I update to 2.6.32-15 from 2.6.32-15 it disappear is there a reason why.
Is there a reason why it diaper ?? /proc/acpi/ibm/fan is not there anymore !
When I load try to load the thinkpad_acpi module I get an error but with the hold kernel (linux-image-2.6.32-5-686 version 2.6.32-15) it was ok !
modprobe thinkpad_acpi
FATAL: Error inserting thinkpad_acpi (/lib/modules/2.6.32-5-686/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/thinkpad_acpi.ko): No such device
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Jul 1, 2011
I recently installed Ubuntu Karmic Koala onto my old IBM Thinkpad (I THINK it's an X23 model, but don't quote me on it). The only reason I went with the older, obsolete version is, honestly, it's the only one that will run on it. That said, I love it and see no reason to go back to Lose-dows full time (I'll still get a Windows machine in order to learn the inner workings of it... thinking of going back to school for a tech job, so the knowledge will do me good).When I bring up various windows (most disturbingly, my system monitor), I get a bizarre glitch. It's hard to describe, so I'll give a screencap.
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Jul 26, 2010
I'm wondering, where can I get older .deb packages?I want to install Project Open - ERP, ITSM system on my Debian, but I need older postgresql-8.1 not the latest 8.3. Even that I'm suspecting compatibility issues.
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Jan 23, 2010
Do you know where I can get ISO's of older versions of debian. ver 2.2 ver 3 and 4
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Nov 14, 2010
I have a problem with the graphics on my thinkpad a22m laptop. specs:
900mhz cpu
256 ram
20gig hd
??ati rage mobility m3 video card ??
when I start up ubuntu (10.10) and reach the desktop, the screen is messed up. The center of the screen becomes blurry, and it looks like what is normally the right part of the screen is duplicated in the middle of the screen (with what should be the middle of the screen disappearing).
I think its an ATI video card, and I tried to install different driver from Softwarecenter but no succes.I know the screen is working, because when I boot forinstance, the Ibm logo is showed nicely across the screen. So its not a hardware issue. Another thing, I got puppy linux to work correctly after having the same grapphic issues on that OS when I first installed it. But some how I managed to get the right drivers. But as I like ubuntu more, I would appriciate your help with figuring this out
ps. when I try to setup screen resolution in System>Settings>"resolution", Ubuntu says "unknown display" (marked with red color).
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