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| General | |
| Model name : | 1706-85G |
| Description : | ThinkPad X60 |
| Operating System | |
| System provided : | Microsoft Windows XP Professionnal french |
| Architecture | |
| Bus type : | PCI / PCI Express |
| Bays type : | None |
| Form factor : | Notebook |
| Display | |
| External display supported : | Yes |
| Simultaneous external display : | Yes |
| Screen type : | TFT |
| Diagonal : | 12.1" |
| Screen illumination : | Backlit |
| Number of colors : | 16'777'216 |
| Resolution : | 1024 x 768 |
| Graphics Subsystem | |
| Graphics chipset : | Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 |
| Video memory : | - |
| Video memory type : | DVMT |
| Graphics bus interface : | PCI Express |
| Processor | |
| Type : | Intel Core Duo T2400 |
| Internal clock speed : | 1.83 GHz |
| Front Side Bus : | 667 MHz |
| Memory | |
| RAM installed : | 512 MB (1 slot) |
| RAM maximum : | 2 GB |
| RAM slots total : | 2 SODIMM |
| RAM slots available : | 1 SODIMM |
| RAM speed supported : | 533 MHz |
| RAM type : | PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM |
| Hard Disk | |
| Size : | 80 GB |
| Interface : | Serial-ATA |
| Spinning speed : | 5400 rpm |
| Removable drives | |
| Floppy diskette : | None |
| Optical device : | None (option) |
| Audio | |
| Integrated speakers : | Yes, 1 |
| Headset output : | Yes |
| Microphone input : | Yes |
| Communications and ports | |
| FAX / Modem : | 56K V.92, RJ-11 |
| Infrared port : | Yes |
| Bluetooth : | Yes |
| Wireless LAN : | 802.11a/b/g |
| Network interface : | Ethernet 10/100/1000, RJ-45 |
| Serial RS-232 : | None |
| Parallel : | None |
| USB 2.0 : | Yes, 3 ports |
| Monitor D-Sub 15 : | Yes |
| Monitor S-Video : | No |
| Monitor DVI : | Only available on docking station |
| Extension Docking / Port Replicator : | Supported |
| Miscellaneous | |
| Keyboard layout : | Swiss (QWERTZ) |
| Keyboard light : | Yes |
| Pointing device Touchpoint : | Yes |
| Pointing device Softpad : | No |
| Fingerprint reader : | Yes |
| A/C Adapter : | 90 W |
| Battery type : | 4 cells |
| Battery life : | about 3.9h |
| Charge time : | 3.0h (off) - 5.0h (on) |
| Noise : | 40 dB |
| Weight and dimensions : | |
| Height : | 2.0 cm |
| Width : | 26.8 cm |
| Depth : | 21.1 cm |
| Travel weight : | 1.43 Kg |
| Total weight : | 1.45 Kg |
| Working? | HOWTO | |
| Installation | Out of the Box | Dual Boot Go here |
| Video/3D | Out of the Box | |
| Trackpoint | Out of the Box | Middle Button and additional features. go here |
| Sound | Out of the Box | |
| Dual Core | Additional Package | install 686-smp package Go here |
| USB | Out of the box | |
| DVD/CD-Rom | Out of the box | External USB DVD-Writer |
| PCMIA | Not tested(Should Work) | |
| Headphones | Out of the Box | |
| Microphone | Out of the Box | |
| Wireless | Out of the Box | |
| Wired Network | Out of the Box | Got an error message, but works |
| Function Keys | Out of the Box | Go here |
| Fingerprint Reader | Some fiddling | See here |
| Sleep/Hibernate | Additional Package | See here |
| External Monitor/Display | Some fiddling | See here |
I used the recommended LiveCD to install Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. To get a copy of Ubuntu go simply to the Ubuntu Home. I connected the USB DVD-Writer before booting, inserted the Ubuntu CD and boot. Push F10 to access the boot medium chooser. Choose the DVD-Writer and follow on-screen instructions. In Ubuntu I selected the Install Shortcut on the desktop. I followed the very easy and really short instruction procedure.
At some point your are asked to select the device where I want Ubuntu to be installed. As I wanted to have a Dual Boot Ubuntu/Windows XP, I simply choose to manually partition the Hard-drive. I resized the Windows Partition to 25-30 GB, and then after theses steps were completed, went back to the choices where to install. Here i chose 'Install on the largest free partition/space'.
Attention: Before you install anything remember to first create rescue Disks of your Windows partition. As IBM/Lenovo does not provide any Recovery Disks with the laptop.
After the installation has completed, I rebooted and came to GRUB. I shows 5 choices. The first three belong to Ubuntu, and the remaining two are first the Windows XP parition and the last(I think it is called 'Windows 2000/Millenium'). So I can still access Ubuntu, Windows and the IBM recovery partition. Of course I changed the last entry, to clearly show what is on that parition.
To get complete Media support(MP3, Flash, DVD,...), I used Easyubuntu to configure this for me. I simply followed the instructions on the Homepage of Easyubuntu and Voilà. I selected almost everything to be installed excpet SkyPe.
And the sound and Video work out of the box. So not extra configuring was necessary.
The wired network device is working out of the box. The same for the Wireless Device. I have a Intel Pro Wireless 3945. The NetworkManager of GNOME is great and I used it to configure my connections. Very simple, but it was not running immediately. I had to comment out all the devices in the file /etc/network/interfaces.
sudo cp /etc/network/interfaces /etc/network/interfaces.bak
sudo gedit /etc/network/interfaces
After editing my file looks this way:
auto lo
iface lo inet loopback
#auto eth0
#iface eth0 inet dhcp
#auto eth1
#iface eth1 inet dhcp
Then after restarting the NetworkManager(not only the applet), NetworkManager showed the possible connections.
VPN connections are also possible to manage via NM, however an additional plugin for NM is necessary. Plugin for vpnc plugin for NM here. For other vpn clients, please goolge.
As the thinkpad x60 is very very small, and is used as ultrportable Laptop, the suspend-to-ram(Sleep) and suspend-to-disk(Hibernate) functions are essential for me. Out of the box none of the two worked. But with a simple update both are working. I simply added acpi-support 0.85 package and add RESUME=/dev/sda4 (where sda4 is my swap partition) to the grub menu.lst as a bootparameter. And now hibernate and sleep is working fine. I am currently testing the battery life in sleep modus and in 30 minutes it used 2% of the battery life(4cell battery). Which could give a sleep time for 20 hours. But still testing...
Edit 10.07.2006:With Kernel 2.16.25-686, I first had several problems with Sleep/Hibernate, but now without changing anything Sleep/Hibernate works perfectly well. If someone is upgrading to kernel 2.26-25 first reboot 2-3 times, without tryinf to put the machine to hibernate or sleep. With the new kernel, I get a very good battery life for sleep. It drains only around 1% per hour, so sleeping would be possible for around 100 hours.
The Dual core processor is not supported out of the box. But installing a 686 kernel fixes this. I haven't done this yet. But in aptitude just look for 686-smp package. Soon more informations...
EDIT 10.07.2006:I installed the linux-686-smp package trough aptitude. So I know have Dual Core support. But with the new kernel, I get a hang on boot. The hang may take 3-5 minutes or just several minutes. The hang is related to probing some IRQ module, I guess. But as everything works great, I can live with a small delay on booting, as I only boot once a day, and for the rest I put it simply to Sleep.
RESOLVED: Change in the bios under Config-> Serial (ATA)->mode from AHCI to 'compatibility'. This should resolve the hang on boot.
Using the X60 Thinkpad for a presentation you must connect to an external beamer/display/monitor. But of the box this is not possible. So I edited manually the /etc/X11/xorg.conf file. So now I plug in an external device an both displays work(laptop/external). So my xorg.conf file edited looks like this:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller"
Driver "i810"
BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
Option "MonitorLayout" "CRT,LFP"
Option "Clone" "true"
Option "DevicePresence" "true"
EndSection
Thanks to Caillou the fingerprint Reader is working:) To see how he made it working see here.
I simply went here. ThinkWiki-HowTo_Trackpoint
Almost all the Fn-Keys are Working, or can be configured such that they are working. I used the shortcuts menu to configure what was not working.
Bluetooth works out of the box. First, I had some problems to enable the device. Make sure you have the following packages installed:bluez-utils, obexserver and gnome-bluetooth. To enable the bluetooth device simply execute in a terminal:
To scan for devices simply executesudo su
echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
To sync my mobile Phone I use Multisync. With two plugins, this program is able to sync my SonyEricsson T630 with Evolution(Adressbook, Calendar, ToDo List) via Bluetooth).hcitool scan
Some of the Hardware which connects easily with Ubuntu.
My Digital Camera Olympus mu 800 connects out of the box with Ubuntu. Just plug the USB-cable of the camera and Ubuntu recongizes the camera to transfer the photos.
An external Card reader a no name brand connects also very easily and out of the box. The same holds for my USB Memory Stick of 512 MB. In general every USB device I tested worked out of the box(Mouse, Keyboard, DVD_ROM, ...)
My SonyEricsson t630 connects to ubuntu via Bluetooth, with just some fiddeling, described in the section of Bluetooth.
My H340 IRiver connects great with Ubuntu and Rythmbox.
For sleep/hibernate with COMPIZ/AIGLX, you need to insert two scripts in /etc/acpi/resume.d/ and /etc/acpi/suspend.d/. The first script you put in a file and you name it 99-compiz-resume.sh, and put the file in the /etc/acpi/resume.d/(It maybe possible that you have to restart compiz manually when recovering a session)
#!/bin/bashThe second script you hve to name 25-compiz-stop.sh and put it in /etc/acpi/suspend.d/
#/etc/acpi/resume.d/99-compiz-resume.sh
if test ! -z $COMPIZUSER;then
export DISPLAY=:0.0
# sudo -H -b -u $COMPIZUSER /usr/bin/gnome-window-decorator &
# sudo -H -b -u $COMPIZUSER /usr/bin/compiz --strict-binding --indirect-rendering --replace gconf
fi
#!/bin/bash
#/etc/acpi/suspend.d/25-compiz-stop.sh
COMPIZUSER=`ps -Ao user,comm | grep compiz.real | awk '{print $1}'`
killall gnome-window-decorator &
killall compiz.real &
I also have some problems with the NetworkManager when I sleep or hibernate, as I have to resatrt the Manager manually, but these two scripts work, and I can sleep/hibernate/recover without having to restart the NetworkManager: (copy and paste into a new file named /etc/acpi/suspend.d/26-NetworkManager.sh)
#!/bin/bashSecond file /etc/acpi/resume.d/96-NetworkManager.sh:
#/etc/acpi/suspend.d/26-NetworkManager.sh
killall NetworkManager &
#!/bin/bash
#/etc/acpi/resume.d/96-NetworkManager.sh
NetworkManager
Battery life in Linux is very bad. Under Windows I can manage to get 6 hours of Batery life, which is brilliant for a 4cell battery. Under Linux I hardly manage to get 3 hours, which is still not bad but poor compared to windows. I am currently looking why windows is so much better.
It is possible to install COMPIZ/AIGLX in Ubuntu 6.06, just follow the instruction here. Be sure to read the complete thread, because you need to add two additional scripts to /etc/acpi/suspend.d/ and /etc/acpi/resume.d/, to get sleep/hibernate to work with COMPIZ/AIGLX.
Under Linux my Thinkpad, used to make a high pitch noise, when running on battery. Updating the BIOS to 1.06, got me rid of this noise. If you don't want to update the bios ThinkWiki.org offers a solution to change state manually.
If you encounter any problem with yor system(ubuntu on x60), feel free to send me an email, I am always happy to try to help you out.