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Thinkpad R500
Hardware
Everything works except the fingerprint reader.
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory Controller Hub (rev 07) 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 07) 00:03.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset MEI Controller (rev 07) 00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #6 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio Controller (rev 03) 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 1 (rev 03) 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 2 (rev 03) 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 4 (rev 03) 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 5 (rev 03) 00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express Port 6 (rev 03) 00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1d.1 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 (rev 03) 00:1d.2 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 (rev 03) 00:1d.7 USB controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 (rev 03) 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93) 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller (rev 03) 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801IBM/IEM (ICH9M/ICH9M-E) 4 port SATA Controller [AHCI mode] (rev 03) 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 03) 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 5100 AGN [Shiloh] Network Connection 04:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express (rev 02) 15:00.0 CardBus bridge: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II (rev ba) 15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller (rev 04) 15:00.2 SD Host controller: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter (rev 21) 15:00.3 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C843 MMC Host Controller (rev 11) 15:00.4 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter (rev 11) 15:00.5 System peripheral: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller (rev 11)
make.conf
Edit /etc/portage/make.conf:
CFLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" MAKEOPTS="-j2" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" VIDEO_CARDS="intel"
Network
Configure drivers for the ethernet and wlan cards:
Device Drivers ---> [*] Network device support ---> [*] Ethernet driver support ---> [*] Broadcom devices <M> Broadcom Tigon3 support [*] Wireless LAN ---> <M> Intel Wireless WiFi Next Gen AGN - Wireless-N/Advanced-N/Ultimate-N (iwlwifi) -M- Intel Wireless WiFi
Install firmware for the wlan card by emerging the package No results:
root # emerge linux-firmware
Sensors
Configure the drivers for sensors:
Device Drivers ---> -*- I2C support ---> I2C Hardware Bus support ---> <*> Intel 82801 (ICH/PCH) -*- Hardware Monitoring support ---> <M> Intel Core/Core2/Atom temperature sensor [*] X86 Platform Specific Device Drivers ---> <M> ThinkPad ACPI Laptop Extras [*] Console audio control ALSA interface
Install the No results sensor monitoring program:
root # emerge lm_sensors
Watchdog
Device Drivers ---> [*] Watchdog Timer Support ---> <M> Intel TCO Timer/Watchdog [*] Intel TCO Timer/Watchdog Specific Vendor Support
Random number generator
Device Drivers ---> Character devices ---> [*] Intel HW Random Number Generator support
Memorycard reader
Bus options (PCI etc.) ---> [*] PCCard (PCMCIA/CardBus) support ---> [*] CardBus yenta-compatible bridge support Device Drivers ---> [*] Memory Technology Device (MTD) support ---> [*] NAND SSFDC (SmartMedia) read only translation layer [*] NAND Device Support ---> [*] Ricoh xD card reader [*] MMC/SD/SDIO card support ---> [*] Secure Digital Host Controller Interface support [*] SDHCI support on PCI bus [*] Sony MemoryStick card support ---> [*] Ricoh R5C592 MemoryStick interface support
Webcam
Device Drivers ---> [*] Multimedia support ---> [*] Cameras/video grabbers support [*] Media USB Adapters ---> [*] USB Video Class (UVC)
Trackpoint
Enable 3-button scroll by editing /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/11-evdev-trackpoint.conf:
Section "InputClass" Identifier "Trackpoint Wheel Emulation" MatchProduct "TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint|DualPoint Stick|Synaptics Inc. Composite TouchPad / TrackPoint|ThinkPad USB Keyboard with TrackPoint|USB Trackpoint pointing device" MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*" Option "EmulateWheel" "true" Option "EmulateWheelButton" "2" Option "Emulate3Buttons" "false" Option "XAxisMapping" "6 7" Option "YAxisMapping" "4 5" EndSection
Power saving
Disable bluetooth on startup:
root # echo "disable" > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
The following config file enables aggressive power saving. Add the following to /etc/udev/rules.d/10-local-powersave.rules
# PCI runtime power management ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="pci", ATTR{power/control}="auto" # USB autosuspend ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTR{power/control}="auto" ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", TEST=="power/autosuspend" ATTR{power/autosuspend}="60" # SATA active link power management SUBSYSTEM=="scsi_host", KERNEL=="host*", ATTR{link_power_management_policy}="min_power" # Wlan power save ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="wlan*" RUN+="/usr/sbin/iw dev %k set power_save on" # Disable bluetooth SUBSYSTEM=="rfkill", ATTR{type}=="bluetooth", ATTR{state}="0" # Disable wake-on-LAN ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL=="eth*" RUN+="/usr/sbin/ethtool -s %k wol d"