Issues with F12 on Lenovo T400

[ayzen]

Hey Folks,

Recently I got a Lenovo T400 but it came with Windows Vista installed (default). Being terribly slow and unstable, I decided to give Fedora 12 a chance. It works, but there are a few issues I just don't seem to be able to solve. I've tried google, but alas... no results.

Oh, I'm just a simple user and rather new with Fedora (I just wanna get rid of the slow Windows). Not very experienced with commands in the terminal and such. Just that you know it when I don't get it .

Anyway, at the moment I've got the next few issues:

1) Function Keys
The keyboard has got a blue function key, with which you can enable/disable VGA output, WiFi/Bluetooth, etc. Most of those keys work just fine, except for the key (F8 key) which enables/disables the touchpad or that red dot representing a mouse :P.
Anyone knows whether this is because it is not supported by Fedora 12 (yet) or must something be configured properly before it works?

2) K9Copy can't recognize CDROM drive
I want to create backups of my precious DVD movies and the best option was to use K9Copy (it seems there are no other decent apps for Fedora, as I could not find any). Problem is that K9Copy fails to recognize the DVD drive. I tried mounting the DVD drive from the terminal and that works fine. But even still after mounting it, I can not make K9Copy see the DVD drive. Perhaps it is due to my inexperience with Fedora and something has to be configured, but maybe it is just that the T400 is not completely supported by F12. So, anyone got any suggestions?

3) Wine can't handle hardware of laptop
... or so it seems. When installing apps like Winamp it runs but fails to play any MP3 files as it can not find any sound device. Seems F12 does not support the T400 fully yet. Other applications that normally run on windows are not able to find the sound device in Wine as well, so it's not just Winamp .
So who knows that very wanted answer that solves this issue?

Alright, guess that's enough issues for now :P. Hope I provided enough information, if not then just let me know .

[GoinEasy9]

Here's a link for the Thinkwiki. I don't know what the problem is with the cdrom drive, it was recognized in F10, and shouldn't have a problem in F12.
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Instal..._ThinkPad_T400
I am on the mailing list and I do read about an increasing number of problems with newer kernels and the Thinkpads. it's to bad, they used to be the best laptop to use with Linux. I'm wondering if installing linux-firmware would help? I know after a kernel transition (sorry, can't remember which one) I had to install linux-firmware to replace a few things that were removed from the kernel. I don't have your particular model, so, I don't have an more definitive answers.
Sorry I'm not more help.

[ayzen]

Thanks for the link! The Wiki sure holds some usable tips! Although not all issues are covered, at least a few other will be solved. So every bit of help is usefull and always appreciated.

The optic drive remains a bit of mystery then. It could be K9Copy itself, too. But I found out there are more with this similar problem, so it could be something else as well. So many options, guess I'm doomed to wait for an update or keep on searching for a solution/fix .

[David Batson]

Regarding F8, you can run xev from terminal and then press F8 and look for any keysymbol displayed, such as XF86Display (only an example). You can then use System > Preferences > Keyboard Shortcuts to link that key to an action. If gnome tries to take over the use of the key, you can give it another keysymbol in /home/~/.Xmodmap, such as key = F30. Then use keyboard shortcuts to assign the key to an action - which could be a bash script or terminal command. Not sure of a specific command to control the touchpad.

I use gsynaptics in Gnome (qsynaptics in KDE) to turn off my touchpad. gpointing-device-settings doesn't work well for me.

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=528485

Don't really know the solution to your other two problems.

[GoinEasy9]

If you have questions about specific problems with Thinkpads, there's always the mailing list.

-- The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/ma...linux-thinkpad

Especially with problems with the newer kernels, someone might have the answer if you ask there.

[jbkt23]

You can turn the touchpad off in the bios setup utility on the t400. Then in a terminal type:

$ su - -C "yum install configure-trackpoint"

after that is installed become root and create the mouse-wheel.fdi:
$ su
# cd /etc/hal/fdi/policy/
# touch mouse-wheel.fdi
# gedit mouse-wheel.fdi

and add the following lines to this file

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<match key="info.product" string="TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint">
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheel" type="string">true</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.EmulateWheelButton" type="string">2</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.XAxisMapping" type="string">6 7</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.YAxisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.ZAxsisMapping" type="string">4 5</merge>
<merge key="input.x11_options.Emulate3Buttons" type="string">true</merge>
</match>

save and exit the file and do this to start the trackpoint service

# service trackpoint start

To make the trackpoint service permanent exit the root user by typing exit at the command prompt and then navigate the system menu to start the services utility

System ->Administration->services

There you can scoll down the list of daemons and enable trackpoint.

I have a t400 also, and most of the things I use work. The one thing that does not work is hibernation.
Suspend to ram works fine.

[ayzen]

@jbkt123: hibernate does not work? That's odd, 'cause it works fine on my T400. Ah well, thanx for the tips!

[jbkt23]

How many times in a row have you hibernated?

Do you just have the intel video card or dual ATI or Nvidia? Mine has just the intel video card. Did you alter the bios other than changing the touchpad, trackpoint preference?

[polotiel]

Hi everyone,
I must say I'm pretty happy with Fedora 12 (I'm using it in a Toshiba Satellite A500) since even though I'm really off-track when it comes to linux, Fedoras's "yum install" and rpm packages made my life REALLY easy .
The thing is, hibernate in fedora works fine but not any more in Windows 7(I still can't totally detach). I already searched a solution and what I found didn't helped. That is, set the first windows partition to "bootable" which already is...
So, any help will be really appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
Antonio

P.S.: Also, any hint for a start point in making de wireless LAN(WiFi) work would be also appreciated.