IBM Thinkpad Specific Kernel - kernel26thinkpad

phrakture · 2006-08-09 03:46:09

It'd be awesome if you could enable some of the FBs for thinkpads, assuming they don't cause problems... I know nvidiafb does, but are there any thinkpads with nvidia cards?
radeonfb would make me happy as I could use the framebuffer in native resolution

cougar · 2006-08-09 09:57:43

I've got a Thinkpad T43p with a ATI X300.
I feedback later.

Thank you anyway

djpharoah · 2006-08-09 10:31:46

phrakture wrote:

It'd be awesome if you could enable some of the FBs for thinkpads, assuming they don't cause problems... I know nvidiafb does, but are there any thinkpads with nvidia cards?
radeonfb would make me happy as I could use the framebuffer in native resolution

I enabled vesafb-tng. You can use that to get your desired resolution in ttys.

I am currently testing out the undervolting patch - and it seems to be going well.

cougar · 2006-08-09 14:00:09

OK, everything's fine with a T43 / ATI X300

Suspend/Hibernate OK !
( suspend wasn't with beyond )

I am looking forward for new improvement.
Ask if you need some special return/feedback.

Thanks a lot

djpharoah · 2006-08-09 14:03:32

cougar wrote:

OK, everything's fine with a T43 / ATI X300
Suspend/Hibernate OK !
( suspend wasn't with beyond )
I am looking forward for new improvement.
Ask if you need some special return/feedback.
Thanks a lot

Thats all I need to know. Glad to see I have helped atleast one Thinkpad user out.

What kind of improvement were you looking for? Also any feedback is better than no feedback.

phrakture · 2006-08-09 14:24:02

djpharoah wrote:

Thats all I need to know. Glad to see I have helped atleast one Thinkpad user out.

I'll be testing it.... hrm, tomorrow I think. Maybe sooner depending on time constraints.

djpharoah · 2006-08-09 14:45:05

phrakture wrote:

djpharoah wrote:
Thats all I need to know. Glad to see I have helped atleast one Thinkpad user out.
I'll be testing it.... hrm, tomorrow I think. Maybe sooner depending on time constraints.

Once you test it and it works - any way of getting the packages on AUR to be tested instead of unsupported?

djpharoah · 2006-08-09 14:54:27

More patches are on their way especially for the new T60/X60s users.

Also if you run gnome I have a package called gnome-hdaps-applet. If someone could build a package for AUR that would be awesome.

The kde hdaps applet is here

cougar · 2006-08-09 15:39:28

djpharoah wrote:

What kind of improvement were you looking for?

I don't know. On the first post, you were talking about some patches I'd never heard
about ( I don't even know what are they for )
Now, you're talking about 'undervolt'. I suppose it's about improve battery life.
So, I trust you about all these patches 8)

fk · 2006-08-09 16:10:09

More patches are on their way especially for the new T60/X60s users.

What for patches?

If I have time ( I think this weekend) I thest the Kernel and then I setup my ACPI/Suspend ..... I hope it works

djpharoah · 2006-08-09 16:26:14

cougar wrote:

djpharoah wrote:
What kind of improvement were you looking for?
I don't know. On the first post, you were talking about some patches I'd never heard
about ( I don't even know what are they for )
Now, you're talking about 'undervolt'. I suppose it's about improve battery life.
So, I trust you about all these patches 8)

Yes undervolting does work - my Banias core 1.5GHz cpu is now pretty cool and has given my about additional 40min on battery life.

djpharoah · 2006-08-09 16:26:39

fk wrote:

More patches are on their way especially for the new T60/X60s users.
What for patches?
If I have time ( I think this weekend) I thest the Kernel and then I setup my ACPI/Suspend ..... I hope it works

Basically one patch for sata+ultrabay swapping.

cougar · 2006-08-09 16:39:22

djpharoah wrote:

Yes undervolting does work - my Banias core 1.5GHz cpu is now pretty cool and has given my about additional 40min on battery life.

Is this patch included in the actual kernelthinkpad in AUR ?

djpharoah · 2006-08-09 17:00:05

cougar wrote:

djpharoah wrote:
Yes undervolting does work - my Banias core 1.5GHz cpu is now pretty cool and has given my about additional 40min on battery life.
Is this patch included in the actual kernelthinkpad in AUR ?

Yes off course. And its actually kernel26thinkpad on AUR

Its the centrino undervolt patch that allows you to undervolt. Let me knw if you need help doing it.

phrakture · 2006-08-09 17:59:09

djpharoah wrote:

Once you test it and it works - any way of getting the packages on AUR to be tested instead of unsupported?

Yeah. I can maintain the binaries in [community] - or, alternatively, you can apply to be a TU and maintain them yourself. This might be better, as it would allow you to make binary changes for yourself, instead of emailing me saying "hey updates to XYZ".

djpharoah · 2006-08-09 18:32:32

phrakture wrote:

djpharoah wrote:
Once you test it and it works - any way of getting the packages on AUR to be tested instead of unsupported?
Yeah. I can maintain the binaries in [community] - or, alternatively, you can apply to be a TU and maintain them yourself. This might be better, as it would allow you to make binary changes for yourself, instead of emailing me saying "hey updates to XYZ".

Thanks

cougar · 2006-08-09 20:24:28

djpharoah wrote:

Its the centrino undervolt patch that allows you to undervolt. Let me knw if you need help doing it.

Yes, it will be welcome. I read some pages on Thinkwiki, but I don't really understand what I am supposed to do. I saw another interessant thing:
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Patch_for … _fan_speed

My laptop is a T43 with a 1,73 Ghz Dohan CPU
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:T43

Sigi · 2006-08-09 21:51:20

I'm playing around with the thinkpad kernel and I'm having trouble to get hibernate to work. Here's what dmesg tells me:

Suspend2 debugging info:
- SUSPEND core   : 2.2.7.4
- Kernel Version : 2.6.17-thinkpad
- Compiler vers. : 4.1
- Attempt number : 1
- Parameters     : 1 16 0 1 0 0
- Overall expected compression percentage: 0.
- Compressor is 'lzf'.
  Compressed 128434176 bytes into 72869749 (43 percent compression).
- Swapwriter active.
  Swap available for image: 289168 pages.
- Filewriter inactive.
- I/O speed: Write 56118 KB/s.
- Extra pages    : 2910 used/500.
Thawing cpus ...
Suspend2 2.2.7.4: Swapwriter: Signature found.
Suspend2 2.2.7.4: Resuming enabled.
Suspend2 2.2.7.4: Initiating a software suspend cycle.
suspend_userui: program not configured. suspend_userui disabled.
Freezing cpus ...
Freezing processes
Preparing Image.
Free:88405(88405). Sets:10648(10648),31688(31688). Header:6. Nosave:2-0=2. Storage:42559/42842(289168). Needed:-84023|-246326|0.
Free:88405(88405). Sets:10648(10648),31688(31688). Header:6. Nosave:2-0=2. Storage:42559/42842(289168). Needed:-84023|-246326|0.
Free:88405(88405). Sets:10648(10648),31688(31688). Header:6. Nosave:2-0=2. Storage:42836/42842(289168). Needed:-84023|-246326|0.
Starting to save the image..
Writing caches...
20%...40%...60%...80%...100%...done.
Doing atomic copy.
pnp: Device 00:0c disabled.
pnp: Device 00:0b disabled.
pnp: Device 00:0a disabled.
eth1: Going into suspend...
Pageset1 has grown by 2923 pages. Only 500 growth is allowed for!

Error -1 suspending

I'm on a T43.

Cheers Sigi

djpharoah · 2006-08-09 22:30:32

Sigi wrote:

I'm playing around with the thinkpad kernel and I'm having trouble to get hibernate to work. Here's what dmesg tells me:

Suspend2 debugging info:
- SUSPEND core   : 2.2.7.4
- Kernel Version : 2.6.17-thinkpad
- Compiler vers. : 4.1
- Attempt number : 1
- Parameters     : 1 16 0 1 0 0
- Overall expected compression percentage: 0.
- Compressor is 'lzf'.
  Compressed 128434176 bytes into 72869749 (43 percent compression).
- Swapwriter active.
  Swap available for image: 289168 pages.
- Filewriter inactive.
- I/O speed: Write 56118 KB/s.
- Extra pages    : 2910 used/500.
Thawing cpus ...
Suspend2 2.2.7.4: Swapwriter: Signature found.
Suspend2 2.2.7.4: Resuming enabled.
Suspend2 2.2.7.4: Initiating a software suspend cycle.
suspend_userui: program not configured. suspend_userui disabled.
Freezing cpus ...
Freezing processes
Preparing Image.
Free:88405(88405). Sets:10648(10648),31688(31688). Header:6. Nosave:2-0=2. Storage:42559/42842(289168). Needed:-84023|-246326|0.
Free:88405(88405). Sets:10648(10648),31688(31688). Header:6. Nosave:2-0=2. Storage:42559/42842(289168). Needed:-84023|-246326|0.
Free:88405(88405). Sets:10648(10648),31688(31688). Header:6. Nosave:2-0=2. Storage:42836/42842(289168). Needed:-84023|-246326|0.
Starting to save the image..
Writing caches...
20%...40%...60%...80%...100%...done.
Doing atomic copy.
pnp: Device 00:0c disabled.
pnp: Device 00:0b disabled.
pnp: Device 00:0a disabled.
eth1: Going into suspend...
Pageset1 has grown by 2923 pages. Only 500 growth is allowed for!

Error -1 suspending

I'm on a T43.

Cheers Sigi

To get rid of the pageset error add this line to your /etc/hibernate/suspend2.conf

ProcSetting extra_pages_allowance 0

s0lar · 2006-08-09 23:49:05

Thinkpad T22 with Savage video card, the idea is superb. Finally a kernel I don't have to config myself while still being optimised for my hardware.

djpharoah · 2006-08-10 00:23:26

s0lar wrote:

Thinkpad T22 with Savage video card, the idea is superb. Finally a kernel I don't have to config myself while still being optimised for my hardware.

Yeah - thats exactly why I thought up off this kernel patchset.

karsten · 2006-08-10 01:12:19

awesome, this kernel is pretty slick- suspend/resume works great, and the hdaps applet too. next up to try is the undervolting and fan control

djpharoah · 2006-08-10 02:49:34

karsten wrote:

awesome, this kernel is pretty slick- suspend/resume works great, and the hdaps applet too. next up to try is the undervolting and fan control

How exactly did you get the hdaps_applet to work in gnome? It doesnt appear in my gnome-menu as an applet option.

cougar · 2006-08-10 08:56:52

djpharoah wrote:

Its the centrino undervolt patch that allows you to undervolt. Let me knw if you need help doing it.

Do you have a link for an how-to or something like that.

Thanks

djpharoah · 2006-08-10 10:22:45

cougar wrote:

djpharoah wrote:
Its the centrino undervolt patch that allows you to undervolt. Let me knw if you need help doing it.
Do you have a link for an how-to or something like that.
Thanks

My main source of info => Linky Link

Arch Linux

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