Thursday, March 3, 2011

Thinkpad SL410 Crunchbang 10 "Statler" Debian 6.0 (revised incomplete)

Thinkpad SL410 Crunchbang 10 "Statler" Debian 6.0

This Article has been updated as of March 2011

Laptop Specifications:



thinkpad_acpi unsupported Thinkpad detected!
This warning can be stopped by blacklisting thinkpad_acpi. You don't lose any functionality that you have because the module isn't loading anyway this just cleans up the boot messages.

"Waiting for /dev to be fully populated...[   5.609978] ACPI I/O resource 0000:00:1f.3 [0x1c00d-0x1c1f] conflicts with ACPI region SMBI [0x1c00d-0x1c0f]"

This message can be stopped by blacklisting i2c_i801 again no loss aside from what already doesn't work.

There is a sync issue with the intel graphics in the current stable releases that can be worked around by appending "i915.powersave=0" to the kernel line in grub.

And now I have a smooth boot and in squeeze and most all distros, now including RHEL 6 Workstation, Fedora 14, Ubuntu 10.10, suspend is perfect.

I am having issues with Redhat based distros and a weird issue with the mouse pointer getting jumpy and pretty much the whole interface slowing down. Not really too sure what that is about yet but I'm hoping to get it worked out soon.

1 comments:

alcer123 said...

I cannot even pass the installation process, stops at formatting hard drive partitions. Tried Ubuntu 11.04 and fedora 14 and 15 If you can help, it will be appreciated. alcer123@gmail.com