Ubuntu on Lenovo ThinkPad Edge

[axyelp]

you experience it when the little latch below is disturbed! i found it immediately when i put the machine to hibernate!

[rockprincess]

axyelp: do you have the NVLDHGE model?
looks like you have the exact same model as I have.

out of curiosity, do you use UBUNTU (with Gnome) or KUBUNTU (KDE)?
from what I've read only people with Gnome have posted their experiences....and I'm here alone struggeling with Kmix...maybe I should switch to Gnome

[axyelp]

axyelp: do you have the NVLDHGE model?
looks like you have the exact same model as I have.

out of curiosity, do you use UBUNTU (with Gnome) or KUBUNTU (KDE)?
from what I've read only people with Gnome have posted their experiences....and I'm here alone struggeling with Kmix...maybe I should switch to Gnome

ummm, no! mine is edge 14. your is 15 i guess.
i too use kmix(on gnome! lol), gives me a better control!
but i had my sound configured before kmix!

[rockprincess]

ummm, no! mine is edge 14. your is 15 i guess.
i too use kmix(on gnome! lol), gives me a better control!
but i had my sound configured before kmix!

so basically i now need to install the ubuntu-desktop package, to configure the microphone?

that's a bit much effort to get a microphone working...hmm

how did you "configure" the sound on gnome, before you used kmix
what program on gnome, etc...

[quietplease]

in a terminal enter
alsamixer

[axyelp]

I bought this edge 14 i5 540M. my other reason for buying the intel version was the chipsets working out of the box. have tried various intel and nonintel(motherboards - asus n gigabyte) desktop machines and drivers has almost always been a pain. first reason was - i wanted a cooler machine.

have updated the bios once through the thinkvantage suite on windows. all of the things worked well except for the multitouch and fingerprint reader.

$ uname -a
Linux zed 2.6.32-24-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Fri Aug 20 14:21:58 UTC 2010 x86_64 GNU/Linux
$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS
Release: 10.04
Codename: lucid

this is my experience so far with this machine on ubuntu

-battery life is barely above 2:30 hours. with heavy usage, about 2 hours.

-got the multitouch working by installing gsynaptics, and using $synclient to enable/disable multitouch properties. i just run a script every login which sets it up. multitouch experience is far more responsive and beautiful compared to that on windows!

-couldn't get fingerprint working whatsoever.

-network manager could not detect my wifi network. did a full update via update manager, which did the job.

-the wifi reconnection freezes the machine just too often.

-cpu temperature: 39C-45C on nil/low load, 55C-65C on heavy load.

-had to disable a number of services to keep the memory usage down. disabled bluetooth from starting by default to add to battery life.

-using cpufreq-selector to change cpu frequency to 'ondemand'.

-speakers/mic/speaker jack work out of the box.

-disabled the new Fn-key behavior from bios. ctrl+alt+fn+f1 is just too much!

-all fn keys work perfectly except for Fn+F4 which is supposed to switch off the mic. and couldn't get the point of Fn+F9. can't integrate Fn key in shortcut combinations.



here's my lspci:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 02)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 02)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2 (rev 06)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3 (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5 (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA IDE Controller (rev 06)
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)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)
09:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

and
#lshw -short

H/W path           Device      Class          Description
=========================================================
                               system         0578HNQ
/0                             bus            0578HNQ
/0/0                           memory         117KiB BIOS
/0/4                           processor      Intel(R) Core(TM) i5 CPU       M 450  @ 2.40GHz
/0/4/5                         memory         32KiB L1 cache
/0/4/6                         memory         256KiB L2 cache
/0/4/7                         memory         3MiB L3 cache
/0/1b                          memory         2GiB System Memory
/0/1b/0                        memory         2GiB SODIMM Synchronous 1066 MHz (0.9 ns)
/0/1b/1                        memory         SODIMM Synchronous [empty]
/0/100                         bridge         Core Processor DRAM Controller
/0/100/2                       display        Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller
/0/100/16                      communication  5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller
/0/100/1a                      bus            5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
/0/100/1b                      multimedia     5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio
/0/100/1c                      bridge         5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1
/0/100/1c.1                    bridge         5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 2
/0/100/1c.1/0      wlan0       network        Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
/0/100/1c.2                    bridge         5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 3
/0/100/1c.3                    bridge         5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 4
/0/100/1c.4                    bridge         5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 5
/0/100/1c.5                    bridge         5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6
/0/100/1c.5/0      eth0        network        RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller
/0/100/1d                      bus            5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller
/0/100/1e                      bridge         82801 Mobile PCI Bridge
/0/100/1f                      bridge         Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller
/0/100/1f.2        scsi0       storage        5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA IDE Controller
/0/100/1f.2/0      /dev/sda    disk           500GB FUJITSU MJA2500B
/0/100/1f.2/0/1    /dev/sda1   volume         40GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/2    /dev/sda2   volume         29GiB Windows NTFS volume
/0/100/1f.2/0/3    /dev/sda3   volume         395GiB Extended partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/3/5  /dev/sda5   volume         169GiB HPFS/NTFS partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/3/6  /dev/sda6   volume         79GiB HPFS/NTFS partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/3/7  /dev/sda7   volume         70GiB HPFS/NTFS partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/3/8  /dev/sda8   volume         29GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/3/9  /dev/sda9   volume         20GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/3/a  /dev/sda10  volume         23GiB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/1f.2/0/3/b  /dev/sda11  volume         2047MiB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/1f.2/1      /dev/cdrom  disk           DVD RW AD-7700H
/0/100/1f.3                    bus            5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller
/0/100/1f.6                    generic        5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem
/0/101                         bridge         Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers
/0/102                         bridge         Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder
/0/103                         bridge         Core Processor QPI Link 0
/0/104                         bridge         Core Processor QPI Physical 0
/0/105                         bridge         Core Processor Reserved
/0/106                         bridge         Core Processor Reserved
/0/1               scsi2       storage        
/0/1/0.0.0         /dev/sdb    disk           SCSI Disk

[vickoxy]

Hi,
could anyone say how loud the fan under linux is? Is there some fan control tool working with edge?

Thanks

[emdeem]

Just installed Lucid on a 14" Intel Edge. Couldn't get bluetooth to work no matter what I tried. Looking in the BIOS revealed no settings to turn BT on/off. I was almost convinced that Lenovo had failed to installed it. I finally tried the "reset to default" option in the BIOS and Lucid now sees my BT. Probably not Ubuntu specific, but I hope this helps someone.

[rockprincess]

dear all,

to keep you updated, i finally found the solution to my problem!!

for anyone who's interested or has the same problem:

i had to add the following line at the end of /etc/modprobe.conf/alsa-base.conf:

options snd-hda-intel model="olpc-xo-1_5"

i then rebooted, and then both the mic finally worked and the speaker allowed me a higher volume

[axyelp]

Hi,
could anyone say how loud the fan under linux is? Is there some fan control tool working with edge?

Thanks

fan's as loud(i meant quiet) as in windows! i mean, its pretty inaudible!
'thinkfan' available in the repo controls fan! i don't know how well it does, but at times i do feel the fan throwing air a little faster than normal, esp if its under load! so yes, i believe it does work!