Which kernel for a Lenovo T61?

Aleph · 2012-04-06 09:19:30

Hi friends,

I have got a new toy, an old Lenovo T61 Thinkpad (4Gb Ram - 2,2 Ghz - Nvidia Card)

Which kernel sould I install, the 64-bit Stable + Backports?

I'll have problems with Nvidia card? How to solve it if?

Thanks

Last edited by Aleph (2012-04-06 09:23:55)

ivanovnegro · 2012-04-06 14:28:27

Hm, 4 Gb RAM seems to me 64bit. If you will have problems with your Nvidia card, not sure, try the LiveCD. I think it is easy to install the drivers for it if needed.

xaos52 · 2012-04-06 14:41:15

Hi Aleph,

Yes, try what Ivan says.
While booted in live system, run following commands and post output:

lspci -knn
lsusb

x

Neil · 2012-04-06 19:41:11

Hey Aleph, what is the manufacture date of your T61? You do know that most of the nVIDIA chips in the T61 (and most other laptops of the era) are defective, right?

http://www.engadget.com/2008/07/31/figu … its-a-lot/

Aleph · 2012-04-07 09:46:08

Thanks friends,

I'll try the Live CD and post the output (maybe this afternoon or tomorrow, now I am very busy).

Hey Aleph, what is the manufacture date of your T61? You do know that most of the nVIDIA chips in the T61 (and most other laptops of the era) are defective, right?

@Neil, the date is 2007, the nvidia card is Quadro NVS 140M. Is this ok? I hope...

Aleph · 2012-04-07 10:46:28

Hi friends,

I had a breake smile

Here is the output,

crunchbang@crunchbang:~$ lspci -knn
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub [8086:2a00] (rev 0c)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20b1]
00:01.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port [8086:2a01] (rev 0c)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:19.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation 82566MM Gigabit Network Connection [8086:1049] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20b9]
    Kernel driver in use: e1000e
00:1a.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 [8086:2834] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20aa]
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 [8086:2835] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T60 [17aa:20aa]
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1a.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #2 [8086:283a] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20ab]
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1b.0 Audio device [0403]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) HD Audio Controller [8086:284b] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20ac]
    Kernel driver in use: snd_hda_intel
00:1c.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 1 [8086:283f] (rev 03)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.1 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 2 [8086:2841] (rev 03)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 3 [8086:2843] (rev 03)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 4 [8086:2845] (rev 03)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1c.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) PCI Express Port 5 [8086:2847] (rev 03)
    Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:1d.0 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #1 [8086:2830] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20aa]
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.1 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #2 [8086:2831] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20aa]
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.2 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #3 [8086:2832] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20aa]
    Kernel driver in use: uhci_hcd
00:1d.7 USB Controller [0c03]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB2 EHCI Controller #1 [8086:2836] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20ab]
    Kernel driver in use: ehci_hcd
00:1e.0 PCI bridge [0604]: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge [8086:2448] (rev f3)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge [0601]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM (ICH8M-E) LPC Interface Controller [8086:2811] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo T61 [17aa:20b6]
00:1f.2 IDE interface [0101]: Intel Corporation 82801HBM/HEM (ICH8M/ICH8M-E) SATA IDE Controller [8086:2828] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:20a8]
    Kernel driver in use: ata_piix
00:1f.3 SMBus [0c05]: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) SMBus Controller [8086:283e] (rev 03)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20a9]
    Kernel driver in use: i801_smbus
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller [0300]: nVidia Corporation G84M [Quadro NVS 140M] [10de:0429] (rev a1)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20d8]
    Kernel driver in use: nouveau
03:00.0 Network controller [0280]: Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 4965 AG or AGN [Kedron] Network Connection [8086:4230] (rev 61)
    Subsystem: Intel Corporation Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [8086:1111]
    Kernel driver in use: iwl4965
15:00.0 CardBus bridge [0607]: Ricoh Co Ltd RL5c476 II [1180:0476] (rev ba)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:20c6]
    Kernel driver in use: yenta_cardbus
15:00.1 FireWire (IEEE 1394) [0c00]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C832 IEEE 1394 Controller [1180:0832] (rev 04)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:20c7]
    Kernel driver in use: firewire_ohci
15:00.2 SD Host controller [0805]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C822 SD/SDIO/MMC/MS/MSPro Host Adapter [1180:0822] (rev 21)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:20c8]
    Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
15:00.4 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd R5C592 Memory Stick Bus Host Adapter [1180:0592] (rev 11)
    Subsystem: Lenovo ThinkPad T61 [17aa:20ca]
    Kernel driver in use: r592
15:00.5 System peripheral [0880]: Ricoh Co Ltd xD-Picture Card Controller [1180:0852] (rev 11)
    Subsystem: Lenovo Device [17aa:20cb]
    Kernel driver in use: r852
crunchbang@crunchbang:~$ lsusb
Bus 007 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 006 Device 002: ID 1199:6813 Sierra Wireless, Inc. 
Bus 006 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 005 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 004 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 003 Device 003: ID 0483:2016 SGS Thomson Microelectronics Fingerprint Reader
Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0a5c:2110 Broadcom Corp. Bluetooth Controller
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
crunchbang@crunchbang:~$

Aleph · 2012-04-08 09:51:56

Is my nvidia card ok?

And the output?

xaos52 · 2012-04-08 10:21:14

Hi Aleph,

Everything seems OK.
If you want the nvidia proprietary driver, select the one for 'Quadro NVS 140M'. It is available from the nvidia.com site.

hth

Neil · 2012-04-08 12:53:17

Aleph wrote:

@Neil, the date is 2007, the nvidia card is Quadro NVS 140M. Is this ok? I hope...

They did not have the redesigned chips until machines manufactured on or after Aug. 2008. So that means you have one of the defective chips, unless the motherboard was replaced with one that has a redesigned chip. Don't worry about it too much, all the chips are defective and their layers can begin to seperate, but they are not certain to do so. Some of them have performed well all these years and are still going strong.

I have owned two machines with these graphics chips, and both of them have failed. I still have one of them, a T61, but I've swapped the motherboard with one that has an Intel GPU on it instead.

rabbitofdeath · 2012-04-08 13:02:40

I just bought an older T61 as well and the 64 bit BPO kernel works great. I installed the nvidia drivers by using the module assistant and everything is working like a champ. You can find the module assistant instructions here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … tallation/

Just make sure you are completely up to date before you install the nvidia drivers and you should be good to go!

Aleph · 2012-04-09 08:11:21

Hi friends,

Thanks!

I installed CB and everything is working!

I just bought an older T61 as well and the 64 bit BPO kernel works great. I installed the nvidia drivers by using the module assistant and everything is working like a champ. You can find the module assistant instructions here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/topic … tallation/

I did rabbitofdeath, and work fine!

So that means you have one of the defective chips

Neil, I have fear... Which is the problem? How can I know if is not working well? At the moment everything seems to work well.

rabbitofdeath · 2012-04-09 10:49:25

Glad it worked out for you!

Neil, I have fear... Which is the problem? How can I know if is not working well? At the moment everything seems to work well.

That sounds a bit like unwarranted fear - the machine is 5 years old - if it hasn't died by now, it will probably be ok or it already had work done. Just enjoy it!

CrunchBang Linux

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