Installing Debian 3.1 (Sarge) (alternative) on a ThinkPad T42

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Some notes I took for my install:

IBM THINKPAD T42 (2373VUW)

I installed Debian Sarge (testing with selected packages from unstable/experimental).

Kernel

Additional packages

  • acpid
  • alsa-base, alsa-utils, alsa-oss
  • anacron
  • gnome-volume-manager
  • libc6-i686
  • tpb for OSD display of IBM keys and remapping the Access IBM key

Frequency scaling

  • Load modules: cpufreq_ondemand, speedstep-centrino
  • Add the following to your startup sequence # echo >/sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor ondemand

HDAPS

  • Add module hdaps
  • Add package hdaps-utils

Additional modules

  • ibm_acpi
  • nvram

ACPID

  • To map Fn-F4 (suspend) and Fn-F12 (hibernate)

$ cat /etc/acpi/events/ibm {{{1}}} alex@armitage:~$ cat /etc/acpi/ibm.sh

  1. !/bin/sh

case $4 in

       00001004) /usr/local/sbin/suspend.sh mem ;;
       0000100c) /usr/local/sbin/suspend.sh disk ;;

esac

alex@armitage:~$ cat /usr/local/sbin/suspend.sh

  1. !/bin/sh

ifdown ath0 echo -n $1 >/sys/power/state ifup ath0 </verbatim>

  • Add echo enable >/proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey to enable hotkey reporting to ACPI

GRUB

  • Add resume=<swap device> so that the system finds the hibernated ram on power up
  • Add a noresume option to boot without recovering the hibernation

Caveats

  • Using cifs causes hiccups suspending/hibernating, use smbnetfs