Comments on: Installing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

By: eudinaesis

eudinaesis — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 11:11:42 +0000

Hi, I can't figure out how to get two of the tablet buttons, the reset button or the tablet-menu button, working in 9.10 – they worked fine earlier. You say they 'just worked' — any clue why they wouldn't for me? Perhaps because I originally installed this as xubuntu rather than ubuntu, and then installed the ubuntu-desktop on top?

Anyway, the tablet-menu button automatically blanks the screen, and the reset one doesn't do anything; neither shows up as keypresses with Xev or acpi_listen… arrrgh!

I can't seem to find your email on this page – anyhow, mine is eudinaesis … at … google's mail …

By: aliencam

aliencam — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 02:08:19 +0000

I get about 3 hours in 9.10, which is kind of upsetting, because I got 7+ hours in 8.10… I haven't done any battery tweaking yet, I might have to get on that. Firefox, flash (npviewer.bin) and banshee are my main battery killers. are you using powertop?

By: mace

mace — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 17:44:40 +0000

hows your battery life? I've got the same setup with the 8 cell battery, i can get around 6+ hours in Win7, only 2 or so in 9.10. Kinda new to Linux, any suggestions would be great.

By: aliencam

aliencam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:54:19 +0000

I did just find how to do this using Arch Linux, you have to have the acpid daemon running though:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lenovo_Thinkp...

By: aliencam

aliencam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:52:04 +0000

if you read the autorotation script on the wiki, it is an "if than" script, it just checks to see if the laptop is in tablet mode every 5 ms! Nobody that I found could get a working script to launch on an acpi event.

I did just check using acpi_listen, and putting the lid up and down in tablet mode DOES launch an event, they are:
DOWN: ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00005009
UP: ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 0000500a

I don't know why karmic won't execute custom acpi scripts, if that is true than that puts a dampener on some of my other plans…

it looks like this is you posting this bug, but everyone else with this problem should mark that they have this problem too on launchpad. Sanktnelson's bug report is at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+...

By: aliencam

aliencam — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:52:04 +0000

I did just check using acpi_listen, and putting the lid up and down in tablet mode DOES launch an event, they are:
DOWN: ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 00005009
UP: ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 0000500a

I don't know why karmic won't execute custom acpi scripts, if that is true than that puts a dampener on some of my other plans…

By: sanktnelson

sanktnelson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:12:20 +0000

okay, read it. very frustrating. They just state that the acpi-stuff no longer works and then go and poll the hardware. Major suckage. Can anybody tell me what exactly they changed and how I can fix it?

By: sanktnelson

sanktnelson — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:59:00 +0000

why would the auto-rotation scrpts use extra power (disclaimer: I didn't look at the above link yet)? They should be executed by acpid whenever it receives the "lid rotated and flipped" event and not be running otherwise. My problem currently is that karmic doesn't seem to be executing my custom acpi scripts at all. Any clue why this might be?

By: aliencam

aliencam — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 20:41:34 +0000

I don't have auto rotation, and I really am not planning on it. I might try it out just to see how it is done, but from my experience auto rotation scripts increase power usage quite a bit, by causing more wakeups to check "is the lid flipped now?" every 50ms or so.

Unfortunately, the resource I used for auto rotation in the past is that same link you cited, so I don't know if that works still.

By: Stefano

Stefano — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:33:08 +0000

Do you have auto rotation working? I followed the instructions here (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/X61T) but flipping the screen does not change the rotation.

By: Stu

Stu — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:47:16 +0000

Thank you for the reply! I finally found out that the problem was having an SD card inserted when I tried to suspend. Unfortunately, I only realized this after I had wiped my system ^^; Ah well. On an unrelated note, you may want to take a look at this terminal based Pandora client for linux called Pianobar. It seems like something right up your alley: http://6xq.net/html/00/17.html

By: aliencam

aliencam — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 05:40:29 +0000

Yes, it works fine for me on a fresh install. It also worked fine for me before I reformatted, I had "upgraded" from 9.04 to the beta version of 9.10.

One thing that was in the release notes is that the default install does not always make the swap partition large enough to support hibernate, so make sure you change that.

By: Stu

Stu — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 01:19:25 +0000

Suspend and Hibernate work for you? My X61T just blinks the little moon LED endlessly and never powers off. I installed the RC and just updated to 9.10, so maybe that has something to do with it… You haven't heard anything about this have you? You always have the most useful Ubuntu/X61T posts, keep up the good work :D