64-bit Karmic + Lenovo Thinkpad T510 Advice

[peepingtom]

I have the version with discrete graphics (nVidia Quadro NVS3100M) and Intel 5300 WiFi Link, and I'm running Lucid 64 bit.

The following devices have no device drivers under Lucid:
Intel AMT (unimportant for most users)
nVidia Audio (HDMI Audio Device)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)


SMBus may be important re: ACPI, and is possibly the reason we can't resume after suspend to ram.
I've tried disabling most hardware in BIOS, no effect on the resume issue.

Here's my results, having followed https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKernelSuspend

[    1.165867] PM: Resume from disk failed.
[    1.165877] registered taskstats version 1
[    1.166693]   Magic number: 0:202:348
[    1.166771]   hash matches /build/buildd/linux-2.6.32/drivers/base/power/main.c:430

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingKer...sume#Debugging Suspend
I've done this. Edit /etc/default/grub to have this line: GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="text no_console_suspend "
run sudo update-grub .Reboot.
GDM will no longer start, computer will boot to VT7. Press crtl+alt+F1 to get login prompt. run sudo /etc/acpi/sleep.sh
Sleep, wake, wait like 30 seconds. You'll likely have a blinking cursor. Try typing

sudo service gdm start

GDM will proably start. If not, shut off computer with power button (or even better alt+sysRq+R E I S U B )

Save relavent parts of kern.log or kern.log.0


https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+s...ux/+bug/519375
I've filed a bug report re:suspend. Please confirm that we have the same issue betwen t510 revisions.

There is a t410 thread in this forum, at least one person has reported that they have no problems with resume when using proprietary nvidia drivers.

If this is happening because there's no driver for SMBus, I sure hope there is one upstream. Cannonical isn't exactly known for kernel code contributions (not that there's anything wrong with this ).

BTW when it freezes on wakeup, try alt+sysrq+k . It works for me most of the time. You'll still lose all processes running in VT7, so save before suspending.



Also: don't trust those Restore CDs. The program only lets you burn them once, and my first one was a dud on (relatively) expensive media (very little data burned, lenovo's cd creation app didn't complain). I don't think i'll be putting Windows 7 back on this machine without using an MSDN cd

[jem76msp]

Could anybody comment on how the NVIDIA NVS 3100m graphic card works under Ubuntu?

I called NVIDIA and they told me it's "OEM" and that NVIDIA is not providing the drivers, even for Windows7, that Lenovo provides them. The graphic card is the only thing still holding me back from purchasing this laptop, as long as I can make sure I can take advantage of it under Linux and have 3D graphics working properly I'll be happy.

Also, the Core i7-620M is supposed to have integrated graphics, has anybody gotten that working yet?

Thanks everybody for the help.

[peepingtom]

I was hoping that I could use switchable graphics, but it seems it's not possible on the t510. The nvs3100m is a bit of an oddball, i'm having issues with backlight controls when using the propriatary drivers. Right now i'm working on some ACPI debugging, i'll post back once I actually get a chance to play with the card while running propritary drivers.

Not being able to use switchable graphics was a real letdown (Lenovo was advertising them, I should have paid better attention to the officil specs PDFs). I'd say that unless you need a laptop with 1080p screen or 512mb graphics memory go with a t410. At least then you can hedge your bets between the intel open source and nvidia proprietary drivers. I can't even access the gpu built into my i5.

[peepingtom]

http://live.gnome.org/GPointingDeviceSettings

This enables trackpoint scrolling, newer version than the one in Lucid universe.
It kinda sucks that we have separate t510 and t410 wokrking threads, a lot of redundant conversation is happening here an here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1383110

[FFFred]

GMA 4500HD works great with below setup.

- last 2.6.32 kernel debs : http://kernel.ubuntu.com/~kernel-ppa/mainline/v2.6.32.8/
- with xorg-edgers stuff
- without the i915.modeset=0 flag
- without indirect rendering
- with below /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Section "Device"
        Identifier      "Configured Video Device"
        BusID "PCI:0:2:0"
        Driver "intel"
EndSection

Section "Module"
    Load    "glx"
    Load    "dri"
    Load    "extmod"
   Load    "record"
    Load    "dbe"
    Load    "GLcore"
    Load    "xtrap"
    Load    "freetype"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
        Identifier      "Configured Monitor"
EndSection

Section "Screen"
        Identifier      "Default Screen"
        Monitor         "Configured Monitor"
        Device          "Configured Video Device"
        DefaultDepth    24
EndSection

Section "DRI"
    Mode 0666
EndSection

I can confirm wifi is working fine after removing the -DENABLE_LPS tags as zengorilla pointed out.


To be able to use the IBM FN keys to change the brightness, you need to add /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad-acpi file with below content.
options thinkpad-acpi brightness-enable=1 experimental=1 hotkey=enable,0xffffff

Thanks,
Fred
---
glad owner of the T510 (4313-28U)

[Prisma]

Hello guys

Don't know if this will help you. I used to have the same problems running Ubuntu 9.04 (64 bits version). I decided to make a clean intall, since I have been updating Ubuntu for the last 2 years with each new release. Well, this time I decided to install 9.10 32bit version, man that solved ALL the wireless issues in my PC, all webcam issues, virtually every issue I used to have. My suggestion: burn the 32bit version in the live CD and reboot, check if everything works. I bet it will. If indeeed works, then backup all your data and do a clean install of the 32bit version.

Hope this helps

[pferraro]

Also, even with xorg-edgers and kernel 2.6.32, compiz is unusably crashy. I haven't tried the OP's indirect-rendering trick -- instead I have turned off compiz:

gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager --type string metacity

Of course, you first have to be able to log in ... which is tough with a crashy window manager, and bleeding-edge modesetting. You can boot with the "text" kernel parameter, turn off compiz, then reboot as usual.

To toggle the window manager from compiz to metacity for the login screen:
sudo -u gdm gconftool --set /desktop/gnome/session/required_components/windowmanager --type string metacity

[peepingtom]

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/si...cid=MIGR-74582
The most recent BIOS update fixes suspend.

[konbs]

Hey,

I also just bought a Lenovo Thinkpad T510 Unfortunately, my WIFI does not work.

03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation WiFi Link 6000 Series (rev 35)
	Subsystem: Intel Corporation Device 1111
	Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 35
	Memory at f2000000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=8K]
	Capabilities: [c8] Power Management version 3
	Capabilities: [d0] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+ Queue=0/0 Enable+
	Capabilities: [e0] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
	Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting <?>
	Capabilities: [140] Device Serial Number e0-e8-14-ff-ff-d7-24-00
	Kernel driver in use: iwlagn
	Kernel modules: iwlagn

Do you have any suggestions? Thanks!

Kon

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