Debian Installation on ThinkPad X60 Tablet

This documentation describes Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 aka Lenny installation on Thinkpad X60 Tablet.

I bought this used tablet on January 31, 2009 from someone who generous enough to give all bonuses along with it.

If you have some comments or suggestions, please contact stwn.

TODO:

• how to reduce power consumption
• active-rotate
• rotate button+change nav orientation: xbindkeys?
• emulate wheel for middle trackpoint button
• event pen “plug-unplug”: trackpoint-fdi.hal?
• info lspci and lsusb
• multitouch support on linux-2.6.30

I installed some programs that is not included in default installation of Debian 5.0, at least in disk #1. This the list of my “additional” programs:

I use KDE3, so I remove GNOME.

• ganttproject

• Aqsis
• Dia
• Blender
• Gwenview
• Inkscape
• The Gimp
• Xfig

• KDEBluetooth
• KMail
• Pidgin

• Amarok
• K3b
• Kaffeine
• MPlayer

• Apache2+PHP5
• OpenSSH server
• PPP and pppconfig

• amora-server +bluetooth config
• freemind
• impressive
• Kivio
• OpenOffice.org 3.0

• Compiz Fusion along with fusion-icon
• CUPS & foomatic-db
• GDM
• Kpowersave
• Synaptic
• Yakuake
• acpi, acpi-support
• fortune-min and kernelnewbies-fortune-data

  $ tar zxvf kernelnewbies-fortunes.tar.gz
  $ cd kernelnewbies-fortunes/
  $ sudo mv kernelnewbies* /usr/share/games/fortunes/

• kde-guidance
• laptop-mode-tools
• networkmanager and networkmanager-kde
• readahead
• smartmontools
• sudo

  # visudo

  Add line

  stwn    ALL=(ALL) ALL

  or whatever priviledges you want to add to the user.

• xscreensaver. Don't forget to switch off KDE screensaver if you want to use it.

• Basket
• Cellwriter
• Grandr
• Kate
• KNotes
• Speedcrunch
• Synergy
• wacom-tools
• Xournal

• Add experimental debian repository or get libthinkfinger0, libpam-thinkfinger, thinkfinger-tools packages individually
• Install libthinkfinger0 libpam-thinkfinger thinkfinger-tools

  # dpkg -i libpam-thinkfinger_0.3+rev118.2-4_i386.deb
  # dpkg -i libthinkfinger0_0.3+rev118.2-4_i386.deb
  # dpkg -i thinkfinger-tools_0.3+rev118.2-4_i386.deb

• Record your fingerprint

  $ sudo tf-tool --acquire
  ThinkFinger 0.3 (http://thinkfinger.sourceforge.net/)
  Copyright (C) 2006, 2007 Timo Hoenig <thoenig@suse.de>
  
  Initializing... done.
  Please swipe your finger (successful swipes 3/3, failed swipes: 0)... done.
  Storing data (/home/user/.thinkfinger.bir)... done.

  If you got an error message

  Initializing...Could not claim USB device.

  Run tf-tool with sudo.

• We must configure pam to use libthinkfinger if it available

  auth	sufficient	pam_thinkfinger.so
  auth	required	pam_unix.so nullok_secure try_first_pass

• Add uinput module to /etc/modules, so it will be loaded when debian boot

  # vim /etc/modules

• Generate initramfs

  # update-initramfs -u

• Install tp-smapi-modules for your linux kernel version, hdapsd and hdaps-utils packages

  # apt-get install tp-smapi-modules hdapsd hdaps-utils

• Load tp_smapi and hdaps module

  # modprobe tp-smapi
  # modprobe hdaps

• Edit /etc/modules and generate initramfs if you want to load those modules on boot

  # vim /etc/modules

  Add this lines and save

  hdaps
  tp-smapi

• Run update-initramfs

  # update-initramfs -u

• Run hdaps-gl and you will find it displays the position of your thinkpad.

  $ hdaps-gl

  Just tilt right, left, up, and down. You got the idea.

Those steps above are not make your Debian has an APS feature that will protect your harddisk
when it falling by parks its head. It just detect acceleration values through HDAPS interface.
If you want the feature, patch your kernel and recompile or use Linux kernel 2.6.28, AFAIK 
this version includes the hdaps_protect patch.

• get 2.6.31, hdapsd, and tp-smapi-source from unstable
• m-a a-i tp-smapi-source
• test with moving your notebook, you should hear your headdisk is parking

• Add this lines into /etc/X11/xorg.conf

  Section "InputDevice"
          Identifier  "Stylus"
          Driver      "wacom"
          Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
          Option      "Type" "stylus"
          Option      "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
          Option      "Button2" "3"
  EndSection
  
  Section "InputDevice"
          Identifier  "Eraser"
          Driver      "wacom"
          Option      "Device" "/dev/ttyS0"
          Option      "Type" "eraser"
          Option      "ForceDevice" "ISDV4"
          Option      "Button3" "2"
  EndSection
  
  Section "InputDevice"
  	Identifier    "Touch"
  	Driver        "wacom"
  	Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
  	Option        "Type"          "touch"
  	Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"
  	Option        "TopY" "48"
  	Option        "TopX" "22"
  	Option        "BottomY" "980"
  	Option        "BottomX" "950"
  EndSection
  
  Section "InputDevice"
  	Identifier    "Cursor"
  	Driver        "wacom"
  	Option        "Device"        "/dev/ttyS0"
  	Option        "Type"          "cursor"
  	Option        "ForceDevice"   "ISDV4"      
  EndSection

• Add this lines to Section “Serverlayout” in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

          InputDevice    "Cursor" "SendCoreEvents"
          InputDevice    "Stylus" "SendCoreEvents"
          InputDevice    "Eraser" "SendCoreEvents"
          InputDevice    "Touch" "SendCoreEvents"

• First, make sure you bought X60t which has Multitouch support.
• Comment Stylus and Eraser configuration from /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Just use '#' character in front of the lines to comment them, or stop X server

  /etc/init.d/gdm stop

  or

  /etc/init.d/kdm stop

• Remove Wacom input driver and wacom-tools

  sudo apt-get remove --purge wacom-tools xserver-xorg-input-wacom

  You also want to remove xserver-xorg-input-all meta-package, since it depends on xserver-xorg-input-wacom.

• Install build-essential, xorg-dev, libncurses5-dev, libx11-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev

  apt-get install build-essential, xorg-dev, libncurses5-dev, libx11-dev, tcl8.4-dev, tk8.4-dev

• Download linuxwacom from The Linux Wacom Project site. As this article is being written, linuxwacom version is 0.8.2-2.
• Extract linuxwacom-0.8.2-2.tar.bz2

  tar jxvf linuxwacom-0.8.2-2.tar.bz2

• Change directory to linuxwacom-0.8.2-2/

  cd linuxwacom-0.8.2-2

• Run three usual commands

  ./configure
  make
  make install

• Uncomment Stylus and Eraser configuration in /etc/X11/xorg.conf and/or start gdm or kdm
• Use wacomcpl to calibrate your touch. If you got an error message something like wacomcpl lost its libraries, do ldconfig first

  ldconfig
  wacomcpl

  Choose touch Device and Calibration. Calibrate your touch by touching crosshair inside pink rectangle until it changes its color to black and do the same for the other pink rectangle.

• Program wacomcpl generates configuration in .xinitrc in home directory, just open it with an editor like vim

  vim ~/.xinitrc

• Add Options in Section “InputDevice” for “Option” “Type” “touch” in /etc/X11/xorg.conf

  Option      "TopY" "48"
  Option      "TopX" "22"
  Option      "BottomY" "980"
  Option      "BottomX" "950"

  The values are from ~/.xinitrc.

• Congrats! you have a multitouch feature in your X60t calibrated and works!

• You need acpid and acpi-support packages installed
• Change directory to /etc/acpi/events/

  # cd /etc/acpi/events/

• Create two files which represent two states of mode, ex: thinkpad-up that contains

  event=ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 0000500a
  action=/etc/acpi/thinkpad-up

  and thinkpad-down contains

  event=ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00005009
  action=/etc/acpi/thinkpad-down

  I got the swivel event keys by looking at x60t-swivel-up and x60t-swivel-down. Use acpi_listen to see event key managed by ACPI.

• Change directory to /etc/acpi/

  # cd ..

• Copy rotatescreen.sh to thinkpad-up and thinkpad-down, whatever you want to name them ;)

  # cp rotatescreen.sh thinkpad-up
  # cp rotatescreen.sh thinkpad-up

• Edit thinkpad-up script

  # vim thinkpad-up

  Add $NEW_ORIENTATION, $ORIENT variables, set Stylus, Touch, and arrow tablet keys to suit to laptop mode. This is the modified version of thinkpad-up:

  . /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs
  
  NEW_ROTATION="normal"
  ORIENT="0"
  
  for x in /tmp/.X11-unix/*; do
          displaynum=`echo $x | sed s#/tmp/.X11-unix/X##`
          getXconsole;
          if [ x"$XAUTHORITY" != x"" ]; then
              export DISPLAY=":$displaynum"
              /usr/bin/xrandr -o $NEW_ROTATION && echo $NEW_ROTATION > /var/lib/acpi-support/screen-rotation
              /usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Stylus Rotate $ORIENT
              /usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set touch Rotate $ORIENT
              xmodmap -e 'keycode 98 = Up';xmodmap -e 'keycode 100 = Left';xmodmap -e 'keycode 102 = Right';xmodmap -e 'keycode 104 = Down'
          fi
  done

• Edit thinkpad-down script

  # vim thinkpad-down

  Add $NEW_ORIENTATION, $ORIENT variables, set Stylus, Touch, and arrow tablet keys to suit to slate mode. This is the modified version of thinkpad-down:

  . /usr/share/acpi-support/power-funcs
  
  NEW_ROTATION="right"
  ORIENT="1"
  
  for x in /tmp/.X11-unix/*; do
          displaynum=`echo $x | sed s#/tmp/.X11-unix/X##`
          getXconsole;
          if [ x"$XAUTHORITY" != x"" ]; then
              export DISPLAY=":$displaynum"
              /usr/bin/xrandr -o $NEW_ROTATION && echo $NEW_ROTATION > /var/lib/acpi-support/screen-rotation
              /usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Stylus Rotate $ORIENT
              /usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set touch Rotate $ORIENT
              xmodmap -e 'keycode 98 = Left';xmodmap -e 'keycode 100 = Down';xmodmap -e 'keycode 102 = Up';xmodmap -e 'keycode 104 = Right'
          fi
  done

• Try to swivel-up and -down the LCD, make sure the screen orientation, Stylus, touch, and arrow keys are set suit to the mode.

• Download ucode from intellinuxwireless.org
• Extract iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.28.2.8.tgz

  tar zxvf iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.28.2.8.tgz

• Change directory to iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.28.2.8/

  cd iwlwifi-3945-ucode-15.28.2.8/

• Copy or move the content of the directory to /lib/firmware/

  sudo mv * /lib/firmware/

• Change directory to /lib/firmware/

  cd /lib/firmware/

• Make symlink from new ucode to iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode

  sudo ln -s iwlwifi-3945-2.ucode iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode

  Why we need to do this step? because iwl3945 module in the linux-2.6.26 will try to search “iwlwifi-3945-1.ucode” in /lib/firmware/.

• Reboot your X60t or try to unload and reload iwl3945 module

  sudo rmmod iwl3945
  sudo modprobe iwl3945

• Your wireless card should be working and the indicator start to lit/blink.

• If you couldn't run compiz fusion or it has run with your applications all window-less, maybe you forgot to install libgl1-mesa-dri package. Since X60t uses Intel graphic card, we use AIGLX that depends on DRI to do direct-rendering acceleration (CMIIW). No DRI support, No AIGLX. No AIGLX, No Compiz Fusion. The error message of Xorg from /var/log/Xorg.0.log

  (EE) AIGLX error: dlopen of /usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so failed (/usr/lib/dri/i915_dri.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory)
  (EE) AIGLX: reverting to software rendering

  Another error message is come from compiz fusion itself. This message appeared when I run fusion icon and activated Compiz window manager:

  fusion-icon
   * Detected Session: kde
   * Searching for installed applications...
  Backend     : ini
  Integration : true
  Profile     : default
  Adding plugin decoration (decoration)
  Initializing decoration options...done
   * Using the GTK Interface
   * KWin is already running
   * Setting window manager to Compiz
   ... executing: compiz.real --replace --sm-disable --ignore-desktop-hints ccp --indirect-rendering
  compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No GLXFBConfig for default depth, this isn't going to work.
  compiz.real (core) - Error: Failed to manage screen: 0
  compiz.real (core) - Fatal: No manageable screens found on display :0

  If we run glxgears to test GLX, we just got ~240.000 frames per second

  $ glxgears
  1244 frames in 5.0 seconds = 247.030 FPS
  940 frames in 5.1 seconds = 185.979 FPS
  1200 frames in 5.0 seconds = 238.331 FPS

  It should be around 1240.000 in my machine

  $ glxgears
  6234 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1246.726 FPS
  6213 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1242.486 FPS
  6270 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1253.926 FPS
  6230 frames in 5.0 seconds = 1245.942 FPS

• You have installed networkmanager, and networkmanager-kde told you that it couldn't find network devices on your pc. The solution is add your username to netdev group by editing /etc/group

  sudo vim /etc/group

• When you found an error message out from CUPS via “web control panel”

  "Filter "foomatic-rip" for printer "BJC-265" not available: No such file or directory"

  Install foomatic-db

• Tablet-related commands:

  xsetwacom list dev

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