Installing Debian 4.0 (Etch) on a ThinkPad X300
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Installation (Network-Install)
Installing from the Debian Netinstall-CDROM worked without any problems. The SSD is recognized as an S-ATA drive using the ahci-driver. The Gigabit-Ethernet-Port works out-of-the-box.
Kernel Update
The Kernel shipped with Debian stable (2.6.18 at the time of writing this) doesn't support many of the features. I manually upgraded it to 2.6.25. The .config can be found here.
WLAN (Intel 4965AGN)
The driver for the wireless lan interface (iwl4965) is included in the Kernel sources. You only need to install the binary firmware from here: [1] (you can install it in stable without problems).
Graphics (Intel GMA965 / X3100)
For graphics you'll need the intel_agp module from a recent kernel as well as xserver-xorg-video-intel (not in stable at the time of writing, get it from testing).
Nothing special in xorg.conf:
Section "Device"
Identifier "Generic Video Card"
Driver "intel"
EndSection
ACPI
You'll need the thinkpad_acpi module. I had to tweak some settings to make the backlight work:
modprobe thinkpad_acpi brightness_enable=1 brightness_mode=0
After inserting the module that way, backlight can be controlled using
echo XX > /sys/class/backlight/thinkpad_screen/brightness
Where XX is a number between 0 and 15.
Fingerprint Reader
A short test with Thinkfinger showed no problems.
Fan
Unfortunately the fan is spinning almost all the time, haven't found a way around this, yet.
HDAPS-Fun (Motion sensor)
The X300 has a motion sensor, but it is not yet recognized by the hdaps-module.
Bluetooth
You need to do:
echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
And magically, the Bluetooth-Daughterboard appears as an USB device:
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0a5c:2110 Broadcom Corp.
Sound
Haven't got it working, yet.
Camera
If you build the Linux UVC drivers from SVN, the cam gets recognized:
Linux video capture interface: v2.00 uvcvideo: Found UVC 1.00 device <unnamed> (17ef:4807) input: UVC Camera (17ef:4807) as /class/input/input9 usbcore: registered new interface driver uvcvideo USB Video Class driver (SVN r205)
I didn't try to get any images from it, yet.
Some interesting facts
# lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile Memory Controller Hub (rev 0c) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 1049 (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev f3) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation Mobile IDE Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation Mobile SATA AHCI Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Unknown device 4230 (rev 61)
# lsusb Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 17ef:4807 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002
# cat /proc/cpuinfo (at 800 Mhz) processor : 0 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU L7100 @ 1.20GHz stepping : 11 cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 0 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm ida bogomips : 2421.98 clflush size : 64
processor : 1 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 15 model name : Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU L7100 @ 1.20GHz stepping : 11 cpu MHz : 800.000 cache size : 4096 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 2 core id : 1 cpu cores : 2 fdiv_bug : no hlt_bug : no f00f_bug : no coma_bug : no fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 10 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe nx lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts pni monitor ds_cpl vmx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr lahf_lm ida bogomips : 2394.01 clflush size : 64
# cat /proc/scsi/scsi Attached devices: Host: scsi0 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: ATA Model: SAMSUNG MCCOE64G Rev: PS10 Type: Direct-Access ANSI SCSI revision: 05 Host: scsi3 Channel: 00 Id: 00 Lun: 00 Vendor: MATSHITA Model: DVD-RAM UJ-844 Rev: RC02 Type: CD-ROM ANSI SCSI revision: 05
# hdparm -t /dev/sda /dev/sda: Timing buffered disk reads: 270 MB in 3.01 seconds = 89.74 MB/sec
