IBM Thinkpad Specific Kernel - kernel26thinkpad

djpharoah · 2006-08-15 13:41:48

Ok fk.

It seems first of all that you dont have a /boot partition. Also how much ram do you have and how big is your /swap??

fk · 2006-08-15 15:04:53

It seems first of all that you dont have a /boot partition. Also how much ram do you have and how big is your /swap??

I don't need a boot Partition.

The Problem with resum is fixed, I have edit the Post, have forgot to add the resume hook to mkinitcpio.conf.

The bigger Problem is that speedstep not work...

My Ram is 2024MB and my Swap is ~3000MB

wabi · 2006-08-15 19:17:10

Thinkpad T42 X.org with the fglrx package lets my screen constantly flash.
Has anybody got a xorg.conf that works on a T42 with a 1400x1024 screen?
I haven't got this working correctly since I installed fglrx.

djpharoah · 2006-08-15 23:59:33

skyray wrote:

fk wrote:
The bigger Problem is that speedstep not work...
I've got a Lenovo T60 and the speedstep-centrino module doesn't work for me, either. I get a "No such device" error when trying to modprobe it. However, recompiling the thinkpad kernel / package with the config parameter
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI=y
set fixed the problem!
Hope that helps.

Hmm.. Thats wierd. I have speedstep working and I didnt have to recompile. The T60 might require it since its a dual core laptop

djpharoah · 2006-08-16 00:00:36

wabi wrote:

Thinkpad T42 X.org with the fglrx package lets my screen constantly flash.
Has anybody got a xorg.conf that works on a T42 with a 1400x1024 screen?
I haven't got this working correctly since I installed fglrx.

I have a T41p with a 1400x1050 screen. What kind of video card do you have?

If you have the Mobility 7500 you CANNOT use the fglrx drivers. If you have the 9000 or the 9600 then your fine.

PM if you need an xorg.conf

fk · 2006-08-16 06:54:51

djpharoah wrote:

skyray wrote:
fk wrote:
The bigger Problem is that speedstep not work...
I've got a Lenovo T60 and the speedstep-centrino module doesn't work for me, either. I get a "No such device" error when trying to modprobe it. However, recompiling the thinkpad kernel / package with the config parameter
CONFIG_X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI=y
set fixed the problem!
Hope that helps.
Hmm.. Thats wierd. I have speedstep working and I didnt have to recompile. The T60 might require it since its a dual core laptop

The X60s is also an Dual Core laptop.

I try recompilyng, I think I make a complete custom kernel with the patchset.

Here is al little report:

Suspend to disk >>Works
Suspend to ram >> Works
Speedstep >> Works Not

karsten · 2006-08-16 11:29:11

you might need to load a cpu frequency tables module as well?

fk · 2006-08-16 12:43:12

karsten wrote:

you might need to load a cpu frequency tables module as well?

I have do this, works not.

I have try to load all modules, but the same, not works, try recompiling

djpharoah · 2006-08-16 15:24:33

fk wrote:

karsten wrote:
you might need to load a cpu frequency tables module as well?
I have do this, works not.
I have try to load all modules, but the same, not works, try recompiling

Dont know if the speedstep freq_tables will work for the Duo Core Pentiums. I believe they are meant for just pentium-m's.

I will check with my buddy - patch.

wabi · 2006-08-16 18:41:19

I got the 9600 card so it should work (and it does but it flimmers). I think it has something to do with the refresh rate.

fk · 2006-08-17 16:30:47

OK after activating Speetstep-Centrino in the kernel config, and rebuilding, speedstep works

djpharoah · 2006-08-18 01:05:04

Guys - there will be an update coming soon. I will be moving back to university this weekend so it might be next week some time.

iphitus · 2006-08-19 06:08:46

phrakture wrote:

skyray wrote:
phrakture wrote:
So for the record, this kernel fails on the T60. So does beyond. I have a feeling it's the vesafb-tng. It boots, takes maybe 1 second to show the logo and boot info, then blanks and never comes back. I haven't had the time to diagnose, as I've just booted right back into the stock kernel (which works fine).
Thank god. I'm not the only person
Indeed, the beyond Kernel doesn't work out of the box. I got it working turning the vesafb off via
video=vesafb:off
that should work for djpharoah's Thinkpad kernel, too.
Oh, nice job, man! BTW, did you report this to iphitus? It might be worth noting to him that vesafb-tng isn't 100% stable.
Thanks for the tip, I didn't have the time to research that one.

doesnt seem he did. doesnt surprise me.

but, doesnt this whole idea seem a bit.... icky? Setting up another whole kernel just for a particular line of computers?

wouldnt it be better to fix something already existing?

beyond already has hdaps, undervolting and suspend. It's already got packages in the repos, and has them for all the extra drivers too.

I'll admit, beyond2 series sucked, and I know I lost a few people because of the suspend problems, which was unfortunate. I put those releases out around my mid year exams, so I didnt have time to test them on my laptop like I normally do and it seemed it was the one time that suspend was actually broken that I hadnt tested it. murphys law.
But I havn't had a single report about suspend being bust in beyond3 either, and it should remain as stable through future versions as I have time to test.

tp_smapi and the bluetooth updates have been requested, and should be in the next release -- pending testing of smapi, I've heard it breaks suspend for some.

For those who fear beyond as being 'unstable' and full of testing patches that will break things, it's not. A majority of the patches contained within beyond are entirely optional in their use. If you don't use reiser4 on any partitions, it will have *no* effect on the stability of your system, and the same goes for most other features I add. The only patches that you have no choice in are those from -ck. They tend to form the base of a majority of the patchsets out there in one form or another, and I havn't seen any issues with those for a while.

If the issues are there, then they aren't being reported. That would be pretty pathetic, considering there are so many places to at least drop me a line, and it would only take you a minute at most. bugs.archlinux.org, iphitus.loudas.com/bugs/, iphitus@gmail.com, irc, etc.

as for vesafb-tng, I'm considering dropping it in 2.6.18, it's own developer has expressed interest in ditching it, it's hackish, buggy, and has no hope of ever making mainline.
hdaps_protect also falls under the same circumstances, no maintainer, poorly implemented, buggy, and again has no hope of making mainline unless it's rewritten.

James

fk · 2006-08-19 12:54:18

Anyway, I think the coolest idea about all the different kernels would be to have one stock kernel.org kernel and the ability to download various patches on your own to put them together as you need them. But I've no idea if that's feasible.

I think it is a great idea, one vanilla kernel with different patchsets do yuo can use.

karsten · 2006-08-19 14:00:02

skyray wrote:

Anyway, I think the coolest idea about all the different kernels would be to have one stock kernel.org kernel and the ability to download various patches on your own to put them together as you need them. But I've no idea if that's feasible.

that wouldn't be too hard within the PKGBUILD system would it? just have every single patch included in there and then comment out the ones you don't want?, or uncomment the ones you want?

iphitus · 2006-08-19 21:41:55

The problem with such a system is that some patches will clash and others depend on each other. And then someone is bound to make some ridiculous combination which will do god knows what.

Anyway, that's what beyond does, its a patchset to provide more features, what isnt it doin for you?

James

vipernicus · 2006-08-21 18:52:53

iphitus wrote:

Anyway, that's what beyond does, its a patchset to provide more features, what isnt it doin for you?
James

Please Do Not Take Offense:

One of the main reasons why thinkpad users can't use -beyond is that hdaps will not work in conjunction with -ck, at least, that is what I've heard.

iphitus · 2006-08-22 06:40:10

vipernicus wrote:

iphitus wrote:
Anyway, that's what beyond does, its a patchset to provide more features, what isnt it doin for you?
James
Please Do Not Take Offense:
One of the main reasons why thinkpad users can't use -beyond is that hdaps will not work in conjunction with -ck, at least, that is what I've heard.

none taken.

http://iphitus.loudas.com/bugs/?do=details&id=8

reading the accelerometer works fine, it's just using hdaps_protect, can, cause the aforementioned bug after a few park attempts.

my point above was, why waste time creating yet another set of drivers and kernel in the AUR, when you could put a little bit of work into fixing something existing. I can't fix hdaps_protect as I don't have a thinkpad, nor anyone who has offered to test.

James

djpharoah · 2006-08-22 14:05:38

Iphitus - your making sense. I would love to help out with beyond and work with it on thinkpads. However you would have to include all the thinkpad specific patches and sometimes just sometimes these patches get messed up by regular patches.

karsten · 2006-08-23 02:03:47

i still can't get hdaps to work :-/

djpharoah · 2006-08-23 13:40:16

karsten wrote:

i still can't get hdaps to work :-/

Neither can I - It seems the hdaps patch requires you to have exact IBM Specific firmware in your harddrive. If your drive is OEM, it wont work

karsten · 2006-08-23 14:22:07

i have whatever drive came with the thinkpad, haven't changed it or anything. weird.

fk · 2006-08-24 22:04:53

@iphitus
I can also test the kernel on my thinkpad x60s

Personally I think I need the

# patches from -tiny
cpu-support-rollup.patch

# -tj patches
00-libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060710.patch
01-acpi-powerbtn-resume-for-2.6.17.patch
02-bluetooth-mh5-for-2.6.17.patch
03-hdaps_protect-20060430-for-2.6.17-tj.patch
04-ibm_acpi-fan-for-2.6.17.patch
05-ibm_acpi-thermal-for-2.6.17.patch
06-input-unknown_keycodes-for-2.6.17.patch
08-nsc_ircc-thinkpad-for-2.6.17.patch
09-speedstep-centrino-undervolt-0.2.6-for-2.6.17.patch
10-tp_smapi-0.27-for-2.6.17.patch

12-suspend2-2.2.7.4-for-2.6.17.8.patch

But I dont know exaktly

With vanilla kernel and beyound kernel, my speedstep and suspend not work well.

iphitus · 2006-08-25 23:34:13

# -tj patches
00-libata-tj-2.6.17.4-20060710.patch
03-hdaps_protect-20060430-for-2.6.17-tj.patch
04-ibm_acpi-fan-for-2.6.17.patch
05-ibm_acpi-thermal-for-2.6.17.patch
12-suspend2-2.2.7.4-for-2.6.17.8.patch
09-speedstep-centrino-undervolt-0.2.6-for-2.6.17.patch

already have

01-acpi-powerbtn-resume-for-2.6.17.patch
02-bluetooth-mh5-for-2.6.17.patch
06-input-unknown_keycodes-for-2.6.17.patch
08-nsc_ircc-thinkpad-for-2.6.17.patch
10-tp_smapi-0.27-for-2.6.17.patch

some of them next release.

With vanilla kernel and beyound kernel, my speedstep and suspend not work well.

really? That's surprising considering it has exactly the same suspend and speedstep code as this kernel. Test it with beyond3 and report back to me again.

James

karsten · 2006-08-26 01:19:55

anyways i like the idea of a thinkpad-only kernel, tailored for our uses. you guys can play around with your other ones, leave this one alone haha

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