No OSD in Jaunty for Thinkpad T30

[emeraldgirl08]

Hi. I installed Jaunty and noticed that my on-screen displays were nowhere to be found. I'm wondering if anyone (who has an IBM and/or T30) has a solution for this?

The OSD was there in 8.10 so I'm wondering what has happened to them. Any help?

[emeraldgirl08]

Okay I found a fix for the lack of Thinkpad T30 on-screen displays in Ubi 9.04.

a) Go to your synaptic package manager.

b) Key in "Tpb" in the search field (without the "")

c) check it.

d) enable

There. Now you have onscreen displays. You may worry that there is the footnote about having the hotkeys removed. I checked the thinklight, display off, brightness, except the hibernation after install- they all work. I'm a little leery of trying hibernation b/c I don't use it and have read something about problems with it.

If you would like to restore your pre-tpb settings just go back to synaptic package manager and uncheck the "tpb" and recheck the "hotkey-setup."

[emeraldgirl08]

Hmmm... after I turned my laptop off for a bit and turned back on. The OSD is not working. Synaptic shows that it's still installed but I don't know if there's a location or some kind of GUI interface to tick and start with Ubuntu as I can't find any.

If anyone knows how to have this startup with ubuntu let me know!!! Thanks.

[mcdragon]

I also noticed the OSD disappearing on my T43. The tpb package did enable some sort of OSD but its not the same as it was.

Well, so far better something than nothing.

[harryc]

I'm seeing the same thing on a Thinkpad X60s running Karmic. I installed TPB and saw the OSD for that session. It disappeared after a reboot and hasn't been seen again. Any ideas?

[autocrosser]

Hmmmm--I found that you can "restart" it in your present session with "sudo tpb" & it wiil continue until your next session....for some reason it is not being "started" with your X session like it should.....

Looks like a bug report is in order.

I use ThinkPads (currently a T42P) & am interested in it also.....

More info: there is a bug report & work-around here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...pb/+bug/158262

Important info:

it seems that its group is kmem, that's why I can't read it with my user added to nvram
for now, I added /usr/bin/tpb to sudoers, so it can be run without a password, and added
tpb -d to run at session start

[autocrosser]

OK--my workaround is:

don't muck around with the /etc/sudoers file--just add a startup in your sessions that looks like:

gksudo tpb

and then include any info you need to remind yourself that the command is for the OSD... after your session start you will get a sudoers window to insert your password--then the OSD will work.

[emeraldgirl08]

Hmm...interesting developments here

If anyone tries this PLEASE let us know how it works! I do really miss the Intrepid OSD though. They were very nicely done and looked like a match for Linux.

I haven't installed Karmic yet...I downloaded over the course of the morning on Saturday and have taken a small tour with the LiveCD.

It's Fabulous so far BTW.

[autocrosser]

It works in Karmic--My T42P really likes 9.10......

[harryc]

Perfect, works great in Karmic. Thanks!