User:Barnoid

I'm currently working on making my lovely new T60 work properly with Debian.

Handy bits of the wiki

ATI_Mobility_Radeon_X1400

Intel_PRO/Wireless_3945ABG_Mini-PCI_Express_Adapter

Software_Suspend_2

HDAPS

Fglrx

Tp_smapi

External useful stuff

HDAPS-devel mailing list [1]

ipw3945-devel mailing list [2]

KThinkBat [3]

Installation

Pre-install

I started by making the rescue CDs from within windows just in case. This required seven CDs and took ages.

Then I booted using Knoppix 5.0.1, which mostly worked fine apart from the X video driver. It tries to use the ati driver, then after it fails a few times it defaults to vesa at 640x480. It can be fixed by fiddling with the xorg.conf file, or avoided by booting with xmodule=vesa and screen=1400x1050.

I used qtparted to reduce the size of the preinstalled windows partition to 10GB. I didn't touch the rescue partition at the end of the disk. I created a 2GB swap partition and used the rest of the space for the Linux partition.

Install

I installed using the Debian Testing (Etch) netinst CD. The Stable netinst didn't recognise the e1000 NIC. This all went smoothly except again for the X driver, it tried to use ati again.

Special Keys

Using xev I identified the following keycodes:

Back = 234

Forward = 233

FnUp = 164 (media stop)

FnDown = 162 (media play/pause)

FnLeft = 144 (media previous)

FnRight = 153 (media next)

and produced the following file for xmodmap:

keycode 234 = XF86Back
keycode 233 = XF86Forward
keycode 164 = XF86AudioStop
keycode 162 = XF86AudioPlay
keycode 144 = XF86AudioPrev
keycode 153 = XF86AudioNext

After much Googling trying to find out how to make these xmodmap settings usable system-wide I discovered that I should have just RTFMP, specifically

$ man Xsession

which contains an example of exactly what I wanted to do.

Create the file /etc/X11/Xsession.d/40custom_load-xmodmap containing:

SYSMODMAP="/etc/X11/Xmodmap"
USRMODMAP="$HOME/.Xmodmap"

if [ -x /usr/bin/X11/xmodmap ]; then
        if [ -f "$SYSMODMAP" ]; then
        xmodmap "$SYSMODMAP"
        fi
fi

if [ -x /usr/bin/X11/xmodmap ]; then
        if [ -f "$USRMODMAP" ]; then
        xmodmap "$USRMODMAP"
        fi
fi

Then save the xmodmap definitions file to /etc/X11/Xmodmap for system-wide, or ~/.Xmodmap for user specific definitions.

Why this file doesn't exist by default I have no idea.

After this the back and forward buttons Just Work in Konqueror. I set them to switch between tabs in Konsole. The media control keys can be set to work as appropriate in all KDE apps using their "Configure Shortcuts" dialog.