After the latest updates, enabling touchpad on/off key (fn-f8) is now working. There are some annoying gdm random restarts without a trace in the logs. I suspect it’s the nvidia proprietary driver and I hope it will be fixed soon.
Here is a better approach to enable the Active Protection System in your ThinkPad:
# Install HDAPS [...]
One of the cool features in a Thinkpad is IBM Active Protection System.
The system consist of two parts. The driver that enables reading the acceleration data and some sort of userspace software that does the actual parking of the harddrive heads, usually hdapsd.
The hdaps driver is part of the kernel but the driver maintainers actually [...]
Just installed Ubuntu 8.10 on my T61. Works great!
I hated that bloated Vista Business!
Items that work out of the box:
- Nvidia: 2D works, 3D requires the installation of the proprietary drivers (nVidia Quadro NVS 140)
- Wireless: Atheros card
- Bluetooth keys
- Brightness keys
- Network Card Intel 10/100/1000
- Firewire
- Wireless switch
- 4-in-1 card reader
Worked with some simple [...]
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