Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on the Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet

Last updated: 2009.01.02

(Thanks to the proprieter of http://luke.no-ip.org/x60tablet/ for letting me use his page design. It's good.)

Intel Core Duo
SATA Hard Drive
Sound
Display	X.org
	External VGA
	Brightness Control
	Screen Rotation
Input	Trackpoint
	Pen
	Special keys
	Fingerprint Reader
Networking	Wired ethernet
	Wireless
	Others
External Connections	USB
	Firewire
	Secure Digital
	PCMCIA
ACPI	CPU Frequency Scaling
	Suspend
	Hibernate
	Event Management
Extra Features	Reducing Power Consumption
	Detect tablet orientation
	Active hard drive protection

Works out of the box

Needs tweaking, but works

Hacking required

Only partly works

Does not work

Unchecked

6363-2AU (1.6 GHz) with 3 GB ram, 320 GB disk, and SXGA+ screen (1400x1050).

X.org
External VGA
Brightness control
Screen rotation

First download the rotate script from http://luke.no-ip.org/x60tablet/#rotate_script and copy it into /usr/local/bin/. Make it executable with
chmod 775 /usr/local/bin/rotate
Add a line to your /etc/sudoers (with visudo) to allow the script to remap your arrow keys on rotate:
%admin ALL=NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/setkeycodes
Check that it works with
rotate tablet
rotate laptop
I got it to rotate to tablet mode once and back ok, but on subsequent attempts returning from tablet mode would hang X. Turning off Compiz solved the problem.
Download x60t-swivel-down and x60t-swivel-up and copy them into /etc/acpi/events/.
Ostensibly, the screen should now rotate on its own, but for some reason it doesn't. Downgrading to the acpid package from Hardy seems to solve the problem. See the Event Management section below for more details.

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TrackPoint

Trackpoint stick
Trackpoint buttons

Wacom Pen

The pen didn't work out of the box, but the fixes from Hardy work here. This involves tweaking the xorg.conf file, specifically defining new InputDevices and modifying the ServerLayout section.

Special Keys
Fingerprint Reader

CPU frequency scaling

Suspend

Works, but I expect the occasional (10-15%) resume hangs as in Hardy.

Hibernate

Event Management

Not all events are detected as described in the Display section above. Running

acpi_listen

shows that the events defined in the swivel-up and down files are correct and being heard; they're just not being acted on. Strangely, it will work if acpid is run in debug mode:

/etc/init.d/acpid stop
acpid -d

but debug mode can only run in the foreground, so this isn't a real fix.

To get it working, I downgraded to the acpid package in hardy. This has the (IMHO) positive side-effect of bringing back the logfile /var/log/acpid, but I don't know what the negative side-effects are, so beware. There's a bug report here.

Side effects found so far:

After switching power modes, i.e. unplugging or plugging in the AC, the screen brightness controls seem to get stuck for a minute or two.

Reducing Power Consumption

page

Orientation Sensor, Active Hard Drive Protection

http://luke.no-ip.org/x60tablet/
ThinkWiki
http://dev.cavatina.no/wiki/index.php/X60_Tablet - Fellow x60 user with lots of tips on extending battery life
Ubuntu wiki page
Thinkpad Forum
http://ofb.net/~wnoise/lenovo-x60-tablet/

Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex on a Lenovo ThinkPad X60 Tablet

At a glance

Hardware

Hard Drive

Display

Input Devices

Networking

External Connections

ACPI

Extra Features

Useful Tablet Software

Other Resources