I'm also rebuilding my T60p in place (meaning I started half of it while chrooted, and have now switched over to the newer half...).

I've run into anew issue loading the dri drivers: AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/fglrx_dri.so: undefined symbol: __glXFindDRIScreen). Moving to the latest ati driver seemed to fix that (8.37.6-r1).

• ATI Linux drivers for debian has great information around how to configure X11 to work with the proprietary ati drivers.
• Fglrx - ThinkWiki is a good source for how this stuff all works with thinkpads...

Getting networking up and running on the T60p has been a mixed bag. On one hand, the wired connection was easy (expected). The wireless was at first REALLY flaky, then after some fiddling the connection at home (WEP) was functional, and as of now (when I'm finally posting this thing) it still doesn't work at work (LEAP).

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I have what I tried below, but I eventually dropped the attempt. The Lenovo modules hung up VMWare any time I tried to boot it that way, and while I could mount the NTFS partition used by WinXP R/W with the tools below, I could not easily get WinXP to look at the lion's share of the drive. (My fault, really - if I weren't so attached to other filesystem types, I could probably have made this work).

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Got a new T60 yay!, here's my brain dump on getting it to work with gentoo (2006.1).

See also (Updated as new parts are added):

• Part 2: NTFS
• Part 3: Networking
  

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Gathering some links to get wireless working (better) on my T40. I'm trying to figure out how to get some semblance of roaming... *sigh*

References:

• HOWTO Wireless Configuration and Startup[gentoo-wiki.com]
• Wireless Networking[Gentoo Linux Handbook]

Those distfiles... /usr/portage/distfiles can get pretty big, and cleaning it out periodically can save a lot of disk space. The brute force approach is to just clear out the whole thing, which can be more practical if you have a fast connection. If redownloading what you need is no big deal, then cleaning out distfiles can be the faster way to go.

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I’m finally getting around to setting up multi-channel audio. I’ve had this machine for awhile now, and most things are humming along.

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OK. getting ACPI to work properly needed to be revisited.

Suspend/Resume on T40 [bellet.info]

This guy originally used APM, but his update on 2004/07/15 makes some good notes, which I followed, notably:

• Local APIC is required for USB to function properly, but it borks all over suspend/poweroff processing. There is a simple enough referenced patch to make it behave…

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So, I have gentoo up and running on my T40, and thought I'd share the resources that helped me get there.

For those interested, here's the currently running kernel config.

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I got a Sony Clie PEG-TJ37. I was thinking about the PEG-TJ55, but I just could NOT deal with the wheel thing in the back – too awkward.

Since the info on getting this puppy to work with linux seemed a little scattered, I figured I’d make my notes here, maybe someone else would find them handy, too.

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Well, this is first pass, I’ll record it anyway.

APM doesn’t work – suspend does strange things.

alsasound in the kernel works well – used mm-sources, and everything went smoothly. I don’t remember any major issues.

config-2.6.3-rc1-mm1

Notes on APM with 2.6 kernel:
[ltp] T23 suspend – 2.6.0 final
[ltp] T23 suspend – 2.6.0 final

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Trying to get dual monitors working..

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Just for reference:

config-2.4.20-gentoo-r7
config-2.4.20-gentoo-r8

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ALSA does work, as I mentioned here, but it seems to have problems across a suspend-resume, i.e. it doesn’t work post-resume.

Previously used patches don’t seem to apply to newer Alsa modules.

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Didn’t notice until now that my CD-RW/DVD player wasn’t loading properly – you can tell how much I use it, eh?

I’d already built the kernel with the correct SCSI modules (see references, below).
I’d also already added “hdc=ide-scsi” to my grub boot parameters.

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So this comment on the first of my entries about Gentoo on a T23 reminded me to make an update regarding my now working system

I also sorted out my VMWare issues.

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Why do I have to run vmware-config.pl every time I reboot my computer?

This was happening to me, and while that's a lindows tutorial, it hit the nail on the head:

Because devfs rebuilds the /dev tree at each reboot, it is likely that your vmnet and vmmon devices will become unavailable. Because those devices are now unavailable, you have to manually run the vmware-config.pl to rebuild them into the existing /dev tree.

[UPDATE: 9/29/2004] This is total hogwash, see here

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So everything was working flawlessly, and I had to switch over into Mandrake to get something, and when I rebooted to Gentoo again, chaos reigned.

Well, not quite chaos, but several modules were refusing to load, with lots of scary messages about IRQ settings and other hogwash.

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Audio: Intel i810,
Alsa snd-intel8×0

Video: S3 Savage IX , Sample XF86Config

Just about everything: IBM 82801CAM chipsets

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Jimminy Christmas!

Everything was paddling along smoothly until I hit this little hiccup, I’ve got an ATI RADEON card, which is apparently a whole pile of badness.

Thank goodness some punks have figured this crap out before me!

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