The fingerprint reader
The fingerprint reader is a mess. It has the USB id (147e:2016) of the upeksonly driver in the fprint project, but it doesn’t work. The reader seems to work with the normal UPEK driver (either in thinkfinger or fprint) by modifying the supported USB id. But the answers it presents to the driver don’t seem to conform to anything it knows.
Monthly Archives: July 2010
Kolmas viikola Helsingissä
or: You’re holding it wrong. Seriously. Once upon a time, you could buy a IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad with Intel graphics and it just worked. While the Intel issues in the last versions of Ubuntu were mostly home-grown, the current disaster with the Core i3/i5 on-chip graphics isn’t. Like in the X201.
The Ubutu experience
Getting Ubuntu 10.4 LTS to work on an X201 isn’t too hard. You just need to follow some simple steps:
- Get Ubuntu (obviously) and put it on an USB stick; the X201 doesn’t have a CD drive
- Go to http://people.canonical.com/~hzhang/554569/ and grab the latest kernel package linked there (see also Launchpad bug 554569)
- Get the most recent BIOS update from Lenovo. A description on how to update your BIOS if you don’t have an optical drive may be found at thinkwiki.org
- Go to the BIOS setup and deactivate Intel AMT.
- Install Ubuntu normally. The installer should work just fine. If the graphical installer doesn’t, try the alternate install CD.
- After the installation is done, boot from USB once again and go into rescue mode to install the kernel package downloaded before.
- Boot normally.
Remaining issues
- External video
VGA works, but if you shut down the machine with the external monitor connected, it will somehow lockup (CPU is busy) - Suspend/Resume
With the kernel from the launchpad bug, USB works after resume; the only thing I noticed is that sometimes the wireless LAN won’t come up again (like 1 in 10 resumes). - UltraBase
No idea yet. Haven’t used though it is said that there are still problems with the display port on it
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gconftool-2 –set /apps/xchat/channel_list/auto_popup –type bool false
Simple web-radio sharing with rygel, part due
If you try the receipe shown here with a RTSP source, you might need to throw in an additional input-selector
element in your pipline.