Ubuntu :: IBM Thinkpad Ressurection Project?
Mar 5, 2011
I want to resume a fantastic old laptop from 1993, the "IBM THINKPAD X86 Model" with 130,544KB of RAM. I love to think a new life for that unused hardware. I have a working usb port (not functional as BOOT) and a working cdrom/dvd device ( not functional as BOOT too) but the NIC is dead and don't have the Floppydisc device. I have a windows2000 professional on it, with a working connection ADSL via modem USB.
- At first for resolve the BOOT problem i download wubi.exe: wubi dont find the internet connection (probably because it's via USB), and it cant download the ISO - I try the WUBI installation on offline mode, with the relative ISO ( the "Ubuntu 10.04.2 LTS (Lucid Lynx)" ):
the installation work but it's stop at the "verify of the system" and the system doesn't work, probably because that Distro of Ubuntu it's a Desktop version, and that need 256MB of RAM and the Thinkpad have less memory. I need to install xubuntu on this machine but on the wubi offline installation don not exist that ISO. I don't want to surrender, this machine MUST have a new life!
P.S: when i'll install the system, i want to open the laptop and restore and redesign the plastic and much more! and i'll want to insert all the project here...
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Nov 8, 2010
Alright, my laptop is just plain buggy when running Ubuntu 10.04 or 10.10. Things don't display right and freeze up Randomly.
System:
IBM Thinkpad R40
Proc:
1.5 Ghz Pentium M
RAM:
256 MB
Current Operating systems Supported (as I've seen): Windows XP and lower, Ubuntu 8.10 and lower.
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Nov 14, 2010
I have recently required a Thinkpad X60, and given the battery I should be able to get about six hours of working time out of it, but I never score better than about four. My question is: how can I squeeze these two extra hours out of the battery under linux? Also, I'm interested in a general, automatic solution, rather than to much manual tweaking that I have to do every time I use my computer.
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Aug 20, 2010
This old ThinkPad T22 just keeps ticking. I just upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04 from Hardy Haron on my daughters laptop and all seems fine except the sound. No sound. No mic either it seems. Both are on board.
I did an online upgrade and may have answered some questions about hardware incorrectly during the initial build.
I'm not very good at the technical parts of Ubuntu but I absolutely love it...especially for the kids.
IE.
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Feb 8, 2010
i'm trying to run ubuntu 8.10 intrepid ibex on an old hand-me-down laptop that i got from a family member, and i've noticed that the performance is actually much worse than it was on windows xp professional (32-bit).
first of all let me give you my specs:
ibm thinkpad r32
intel mobile pentium 4-m 2.0 ghz
ati radeon mobility m6 (i think this is actually the mobility radeon 7000 igp) with 16mb ram
256 mb ram (pc-2100)
i understand that these are very low performance specs, but it feels like the computer is running very sluggishly even for those specs. the computer ran just fine in windows xp, but is extremely sluggish in ubuntu. it seems like it detected all the hardware just fine, but i feel like it may not be utilizing the cpu and/or video to the extent that it should be. a couple of places where it really seems to struggle is when first opening new programs, viewing flash intensive web 2.0 type webpages (i.e. videos), and listening to music/podcasts (with rhythmbox).
it seems like rhythmbox really kills my performance more than anything else, but the performance is poor all around compared to xp, and i feel like that shouldn't be the case. like i said, i understand that the specs are poor, but it feels like it's not even living up to those specs. i know that 8.10 is old and outdated now, but it's what i had laying around and i figured that it might perform better on this old deprecated laptop than 9.10 would anyway. am i wrong in this assumption? would 9.10 perform better for me?
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Feb 22, 2010
Yesterday I spent a good couple of hours putting together a video. When I shut down, Lives flushed my entire project because it uses a tmp working directory and places it as default in tmp.Today, I changed the working directory to Video, thinking this would be safe. Instead, the programme quit half-way through editing and I have now lost another good couple of hours.is there any way of saving my project?I can still see the .lay file but there doesn't seem to be any way of opening it.
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Aug 2, 2010
Does everything work out of box (i might be dreaming...), but that'd be awesome and I might just buy an SL510 just for that reason. Im talking everything, ports, power/hibernate/etc, sound (esp), etc
Also, how well would Ubuntu AND Compiz run on a Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 4500MHD video card and Intel Core 2 Duo processor P7570 (2.26GHz, 1066MHz, 3MBL2, 25W)?
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Nov 6, 2010
10.10 installed and added Unity. Upon restart, whenever the Unity desktop is selected, the only thing that you see is the desktop and nothing else. Can only recover with Ctrl_Alt_Delete and reset machine.
Tried to use 10.10 Netbook Live CD. It probed the unit and then brought up the question for running live or installing. Selected live and saw the same symptoms with only having the plain desktop with no icons, nada. Again only recovery was with Ctrl_Alt_Delete.
Is this a hardware limitation in the video of the T23? This is a ten year old laptop with a S3 Graphics SuperSavage video chip.
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Dec 21, 2010
Has anyone done an upgrade like this on an IBM Thinkpad RXX WITHOUT serious problems? I do know that 10.04 has problems with Pulseaudio, since I do have it installed on my Dell desktop and Pulseaudio goes berserk occasionally and I have to power down the system and reboot. My laptop has a 1.5 GHz processor, 512 MB memory and is running just fine on 9.10.
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Jun 15, 2011
I am trying to get a git repo up and running for a project. I currently am running git-daemon through xinetd, and can pull from the repo but not push back to it.
/etc/xinetd.d/git-daemon currently looks like this:
Code:
service git {
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = gitman
group = gitman
server = /usr/bin/git-daemon
server_args = --inetd --reuseaddr --base-path=/home/gitman/root --export-all
--enable=receive-pack --verbose --syslog /home/gitman/root
log_on_failure += USERID }
And /var/log/messages looks like this:
Code:
Jun 15 15:25:14 dev1 xinetd[27922]: xinetd Version 2.3.14 started with libwrap
loadavg labeled-networking options compiled in.
Jun 15 15:25:14 dev1 xinetd[27922]: Started working: 1 available service
Jun 15 15:25:43 dev1 xinetd[27922]: START: git pid=27927 from=209.XXX.XXX.106
Jun 15 15:25:43 dev1 git-daemon[27927]: Extended attributes (22 bytes) exist
<host=dev1.aea.us.com>
Jun 15 15:25:43 dev1 git-daemon[27927]: Request receive-pack for '/EPA.git'
For some reason, the push request goes through, then stops and hangs. I went to lunch for an hour, and still nothing.
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Apr 16, 2010
I have nearly completed a project.My team developed using C,shell scripts and qt.I would like to know how to package it as a .deb file??Also during installation,i want it to check for the existence of few packages in the system.If they are not there,i want it to download them using apt.
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Apr 28, 2011
I have a small java project that handle connections. In order to run it from the terminal I have to cd into the folder that contains the source and run the following command:
java -cp classes com.packagename.mainclass
Where classes is the folder that contains the classes. I want ubuntu to run this application on startup, is there a Java command I can use? Or am I just better off creating a shell script?
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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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May 9, 2010
I've got a Thinkpad X31 with ATI M6 Ly card. Since Karmic, and Lucid, I get no suspend/hibernate/resume. If/when I select resume or close the lid, Lucid goes through the suspend cycle, and for approximately half a second it actually seems to go into suspend, then the screen comes back on, black, but definitely on, and absolutely no response to any keyboard input - have to hard-shutdown by holding down the power button. I've read that the problem is with the Ubuntu kernel, and that installing/compiling 2.6.33 fixes the issue, but causes other ones.
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Aug 26, 2010
Under 8.04 I did this to get the tap to select working on my thinkpad with a trackpoint in the keyboard. Is this still the same under 10.04? I'm not the greatest with the terminal so I want to check before I start a change.
Code: sudo apt-get install sysfsutils -Once that is installed, do; Code: gksudo gedit /etc/sysfs.conf -and add this line to the bottom, then save it.devices/platform/i8042/serio1/serio2/press_to_select=1 (several days later) OK, I went ahead and tried it and this is the way to get the trackpoint working - I originally had one too many spaces in the code but now I beleive the code as shown is correct for you people with a thinkpad (and maybe others) who want to use the trackpoint with tap.
AGAIN! Now it stopped working after a reboot. Does this command not make it permanent??
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Aug 26, 2010
I just started taking AP Computer Science A at my high school and we are learning to program in Java. At school we use Windows XP laptops with Jcreator but at home I just have my desktop with Ubuntu 10.04. I installed NetBeans 6.8 with no issues but can't figure out how to import and be able to work on my Jcreator projects from school. Not sure if this is the right section but I really need to get something working for school.
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Oct 19, 2010
Unable to connect to vpn and along with my thinkpad I am frustrated, exhausted by multiple restart installed ubuntu 10.10 on Thinkpad-T410 64 bit
Steps
1. sudo apt-get install network-manager-vpnc
2. sudo apt-get remove resolvconf
3. Import .pcf
4. reboot
5. connect, enter password in password window
6. error "invalid VPN secrets"
also tried enabling/disabling Dead Peer Detection option but still no success
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Jan 22, 2011
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My question is:
a) Is this project small enough for me to tackle (considering I'm a freelance and currently theres no job to be found)
b) Would you propose an alternative language and why?
c) What about a nice link for learning a bit of Python!
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Feb 25, 2011
what it takes to get my wireless back up and working. It used to work fine under 10.4 My laptop is a IBM Thinkpad T42, that uses Intel wired and wireless nics. (correction, looks like the wireless nic is actually Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR5212 802.11abg NIC (rev 01) )
-Laptop:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to I/O Controller (rev 03)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82855PM Processor to AGP Controller (rev 03)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801DB/DBL/DBM (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 01)
[Code].....
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Mar 2, 2011
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Apr 15, 2011
I just got a 14" Thinkpad Edge 0578 with a Intel Core i3 M390 CPU . I read [URL].. and i3 doesn't seem to be listed with the 64-bit processors though it's supposed to have 64-bit architecture (The machine came pre-installed with Win7 64-bit). I wanted to know if I need to install a 32-bit desktop version ( i386 ) or the 64-bit desktop version ( amd64 ).
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Apr 20, 2011
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Apr 29, 2011
I want to deploy xubuntu on several computers for a long term use. I (not surprisingly) didn't like unity, and want to use a lightweight desktop with more or less classical design. Unity, Gnome 3 and KDE are not a solution, so the best thing that works for me is xfce on top of xubuntu. But... I heard some rumors on the net that this project is dying. So I want to know what is the status of this project?
Is it a live and kicking project with a growing community, or a remnant of the past with a small group of amateurs that keep it alive as a hobby. I need to rely on a solid project with a strong support that can't fade away in seconds. Same question about the 'ubuntu' part of 'xubuntu'. I'm sure there are people around here that follow those projects closely and can describe the situation.
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Jul 23, 2011
I am using a Thinkpad T41 with Intel PRO/Wireless LAN 2100 mini pci wireless adapter using Ubuntu 10.04
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Jan 5, 2010
I recently installed Ubuntu on my parents IBM Thinkpad T41. Everything is great except for the only thing they use it for and thats the wireless internet. When I click on the connection icon on the desktop it picks up a strong signal but wont connect.
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Jan 13, 2010
Ubuntu 9.10: where's my dialup modem on my thinkpad X60s?
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I tried using several "/dev/tty*" entries in the GNOME-PPP setup, but none of the ones I tried worked. The GNOME-PPP default is "/dev/modem", but none such is mounted.
Is there some way I can find out where the modem is mounted, if it is? Or else, how can I mount the modem properly and test it?
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Feb 19, 2010
I use this Thinkpad mostly for work while traveling, and wireless connectivity is not a big issue for me. Battery life is a big issue, however. I've just converted from Mandriva. With that, I was able to disable the wireless adapter so that it did nothing at all on boot - and only started on my instruction. This made a dramatic difference to battery life! How to achieve this in Ubuntu? The file attached gives all the info about my wireless set-up as it stands.
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Feb 28, 2010
I have a problem booting anything from USB stick on my IBM Thinkpad T42. It used to run normally, I could even install Windows or Linux from it, but now it stopped working. This particular concern is about booting freshly installed Xubuntu version 9.04 off a Kingston 4GB flash stick. I've installed Xubuntu using usb-create program directly from a booted live cd. Installation went fine and all the options in BIOS are setup correctly (I think). In boot menu in BIOS the stick is recognized correctly and + appears in front of it. Stick is selected as primary boot device. BIOS usb support is also enabled.
Now when I power on the computer, it reads something from the stick and stops right after displaying:
SYSLINUX 3.63 Debian-2008=07=15 EBIOS ... etc...
Then nothing happens and the text stays on like this.
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Apr 4, 2010
I am making a project learning about inheritance and polymorphism
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Apr 24, 2010
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