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    Lenovo T400 UBuntu Drivers

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by chrisplosions, Oct 13, 2008.

  1. chrisplosions

    chrisplosions Notebook Enthusiast

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    does anyone have this successfully installed with all the drivers?

    on another note, i was wondering if i can install ubuntu on the 10gb lenovo partition?
     
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    zerosource Notebook Deity

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    check on thinkwiki
     
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    jonlumpkin NBR Transmogrifier

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    10GB is plenty of space for Ubuntu (5 is probably more than adequate depending on your package choice). You should check out the 8.10 beta (or just wait 2 weeks for the actual 8.10 release) because 8.04 lacks drivers for the GMA4500, WiFi 5100/5300, and a few other items on my x200 (similar hardware to the T400). The 8.10 kernel should support almost everything out of the box (you may need to work if you want to get the trackpoint scroll and the browser forward/back buttons to work, but almost everything else including brightness and volume buttons should work without any effort) and also includes a new version of GNOME.
     
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    liuzerus87 Notebook Enthusiast

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    T400 isn't on thinkwiki yet :(.

    Anyways, I had switchable graphics, but to run Hardy, I set the BIOS to discrete, and the ATI drivers were fine. If you don't set it, it freaks out on boot. The Atheros card doesn't work out of the box for Hardy, but there are threads on the Ubuntu forums about how to get the madwifi driver for it. My trackpoint still doesn't work, and interestingly enough, the volume buttons work on Ubuntu but not Kubuntu.
     
    liuzerus87, Oct 14, 2008
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