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#51 2010-02-13 10:51:32

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

Oh I'm such a fool. I loaded acpi_backlight=vendor right after i915.modeset=1. That caused the problem. The other way it's working now. Thank you. smile

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#52 2010-02-15 20:05:53

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

sctincman wrote:

@orschiro, I have no idea, the most I could turn up is the info on the wikipedia page saying there's only experimental support for one type of xD card controller hmm And I'm also no linux guru, so I have no clue what your lspci -v output means hmm

@Locri, I once again have no clue :x I've only installed Arch once on my SL, and I don't remember any trouble with eth0, and really not sure what could be wrong

so with that! pardon the seemingly patronizing questions, but

dmesg output?
"ifconfig -a" output?
is the module in lsmod output?
what are you using to manage the connection?
    if it's just the startup scripts, what's in rc.conf network section?

and more to come if I think of it hmm

I finally figured it out now that I have some time to play with it.  I'm not sure of exactly what the root issue was, but updating the BIOS to the latest version solved the network issues and it works fine now.  Now I just have to get everything else configured *laughs*.

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#53 2010-02-20 14:47:00

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

How did you update your bios?

Is there any elegant way to do this with linux?

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#54 2010-03-06 13:35:07

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

orschiro wrote:

How did you update your bios?

Is there any elegant way to do this with linux?

Sorry for the late answer. Yes, Lenovo offers a Boot CD.

http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site. … 70040.html

Burn ISO, boot Thinkpad from this CD, update BIOS, done.:D

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#55 2010-03-07 17:26:04

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

Awesome how easy that was. That's indeed still Thinkpad quality. Thank you. smile

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#56 2010-03-08 21:26:28

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

I recognized that the touchpad is suddenly working on my machine. How can I disable it again? I did not change anything except updating the system as usual and updating the bios as I wrote it.

It's more annoying and the trackpoint is enough to work with.

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#57 2010-03-09 18:33:51

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

synclient TouchpadOff=1

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#58 2010-03-09 20:53:16

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

Thanks for your answer but I only get the following error message:

Couldn't find synaptics properties. No synaptics driver loaded?

The xf86-input-synaptics package is installed. Do I need some additional things?

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#59 2010-03-11 16:47:56

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

Ok it worked after I had reloaded X.

Just for interess. How long does your battery last?

Here on my machine with minimal brightness and normal coding work about three hours. Not a bad result I'd say. smile

EDIT:

Here are some tweaks to increase battery life:

Put them into your /etc/rc.local

#Aktivieren Sie das SATA ALPM link power Management mit:   
echo min_power > /sys/class/scsi_host/host0/link_power_management_policy
#Suggestion: enable HD audio powersave mode by executing the following command:
echo 1 > /sys/module/snd_hda_intel/parameters/power_save

#Vorschlag: Erhöhen Sie die "VM dirty writeback time" von 5,00 auf15 Sekunden durch:   
echo 1500 > /proc/sys/vm/dirty_writeback_centisecs

If you have some more please post it. smile

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#60 2010-04-16 08:04:35

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

I have solved the volume-keys-interpreted-twice issue for me. The kernel automatically loaded the asus-laptop module on my sl500 that seemed to interfere with the lenovo-sl-laptop one. After blacklisting asus-laptop in rc.conf I can mute/unmute and change the volume as expected via the keys. Right now I use xfce and xfce4-volumed

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#61 2010-04-16 08:19:06

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

Hello Klepper,

that works great. Thank you for that hint. smile

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#62 2010-04-16 18:32:50

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

The asus-laptop is the official module for SL500. If the same number (or better) of devices/buttons work for you with that module as opposed to lenovo-sl-laptop you should indeed use it. More information in this commit: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/g … h=14f8af31


You need to install an RTFM interface.

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#63 2010-04-16 20:57:49

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

It may be the official but has still no support for bluetooth and especially fan control. It think that's a big point to use the lenovo-sl-module.

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#64 2010-05-03 17:38:37

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

I have an SL410 and I'm having some trouble with lenovo-sl-laptop.

$ sudo modprobe lenovo-sl-laptop
FATAL: Error inserting lenovo_sl_laptop (/lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/drivers/lenovo-sl-laptop.ko): No such device
 $ sudo insmod /lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/drivers/lenovo-sl-laptop.ko
insmod: error inserting '/lib/modules/2.6.33-ARCH/kernel/drivers/lenovo-sl-laptop.ko': -1 No such device

Am I being stupid?

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#65 2010-05-11 14:51:52

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

TWF wrote:

Am I being stupid?

Probably not. Looks like it doesn't like your hardware. The module may be checking for the laptop's name and hasn't been updated to know that it can support the SL410. If you are sure that it is compatible with the rest of the SL series try to get in contact with the guy who made the module. Make sure you try everything else before then though, even try compiling it on another distro.

On to other matters, anyone else getting really really really ridiculously terrible battery life? I've had this for just over a year now (around mid April 2009) and the actual capacity has gone down the toilet.

$ acpi -V
....
Battery 0: design capacity 4145 mAh, last full capacity 2763 mAh = 66%
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#66 2010-05-11 16:05:32

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

TWF wrote:

I have an SL410 and I'm having some trouble with lenovo-sl-laptop.

Looks like your machine is not supported by it. Please try to load the asus-laptop module. If that doesn't work either then you are probably in the same boat as SL510 owners... see my notes on SL510 and ACPI for more information http://sysphere.org/~anrxc/j/archives/2 … index.html


You need to install an RTFM interface.

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#67 2010-05-11 18:30:11

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

asus-laptop doesn't work either, same error. I'm not surprised that it's the same as the SL510... good thing I'm about to sell this and get an X200 smile

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#68 2010-05-12 05:51:58

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

@quantumphaze,

can't confirm this:

acpi -V

[root@thinkpad robert]# acpi -V
Battery 0: Discharging, 72%, 01:58:46 remaining
Battery 0: design capacity 4537 mAh, last full capacity 4537 mAh = 100%
Adapter 0: off-line
Thermal 0: ok, 41.0 degrees C
Thermal 0: trip point 0 switches to mode critical at temperature 110.0 degrees C
Cooling 0: Processor 0 of 10
Cooling 1: Processor 0 of 10

powertop says it uses 17,2W (2,2 Std.), enough for me.

Regards

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#69 2010-05-12 09:52:46

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

It might be my abuse of the battery though. I usually watch a video on the train ride in and out of the city so that's at least 2 cycles per day. Now it says that I get around 1h:50m of use.

I get around 18 to 25 W in powertop, up to 30 if the CPU is getting a workout. Then again I have the Nvidia 9300M GS. Anyone found any tricks to get it to stop guzzling so much juice.


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#70 2010-05-12 16:05:12

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

Regarding to fan control on Sl510-i posted one thread here:
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=97010

So, is there an way to have those control in the future? Or how to fin out if there someone will do something like that?

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#71 2010-05-24 05:44:18

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

Well, I decided to drain my battery completely today. It's been stuck at 4% for about 20 minutes and still going!

Looks like the ACPI battery system is a little broken. Does anyone know a way to have the battery charge meter correctly calibrated?


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#72 2010-07-17 12:49:42

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

Hello guys,

I never tried it out thus I didn't recognise that my vertical scrolling of my touchpad doesn't work. I haven't configured it anyway.

Does it work for you out of the box?

Regards

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#73 2010-07-17 13:33:33

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

orschiro wrote:

Does it work for you out of the box?

Didn't for me.

ArchWiki Touchpad Synaptics - Edge Scrolling

I added the two options 'VertEdgeScroll' and 'HorzEdgeScroll' to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.conf. The wiki article is using a central xorg.conf or hal policies (outdated).

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#74 2010-07-17 14:05:18

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

Thank you, that's what I was looking for.

Regards

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#75 2010-07-17 14:50:35

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Re: Arch on a Thinkpad SL500

Speaking of touch pads, has anyone got 2 finger scrolling to work?

I have come to believe that it's disabled somewhere in low-level firmware even though Synaptics touch pads support multi-touch


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