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Better partner with Lenovo, Linux runs really almost perfectly on Thinkpads.

by Inufu 14y ago

th 14y ago
This would be an amazing duo. Lenovo as a company hasn't been great about supporting Linux on desktop/laptop machines, but Linux OSes tend to work great on their hardware. Many "Linux is my only OS" users I known use Thinkpads for this reason. If Canonical could handle the technical support for Lenovo machines with pre-installed Linux I think that would be a match made in heaven.
jackowayed 14y ago
It's still not perfect. I had a ThinkPad T520 this summer for work with 11.04. This is one of the highest quality ThinkPads. To make Unity and the DisplayPort port (as opposed to just VGA) work, I had to go into the BIOS and change a graphics setting to make it not automatically switch between the integrated and better graphics card. This made unity work, but it also made something terrible happen when I actually plugged in a monitor with DisplayPort. I believe that both the laptop screen and monitor went to 1024x768 and couldn't be coerced out. The next step, to get full resolution on our 30" monitors, was to install some different video drivers. That was going to be harder to reverse, so I just gave up and dealt with nonoptimal resolution via VGA. I also had a terrible time disconnecting monitors. Half the time when I unplugged the VGA it would just give me a blank screen. Also, a few times when listening to music, the entire machine froze and it played the last ~2 seconds of audio repeatedly, with no sign of escape besides restarting. We've come a long way from when several hours of work to make wifi work was a given, but I still don't think I've ever owned a Linux laptop where all hardware worked perfectly.
- tomrod 14y ago
  Xrandr? Check out my post on messing around with this in openbox (if it helps): https://sites.google.com/site/thomasroderick/blog/9102012--xrandr https://sites.google.com/site/thomasroderick/blog/9102012--x...
- deleted 14y ago
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rogerbinns 14y ago
I'm part of the Thinkpad faithful and recently updated to a new model. From dmesg: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored
etfb 14y ago
I used to believe that before I got a Thinkpad. Now I think: if this is "almost perfect", I'm in trouble.
reirob 14y ago
I second this. There are actually some distributors that sell Lenovo laptops with Linux on it: http://www.emperorlinux.com http://www.emperorlinux.com : provides laptops preinstalled with Linux from Dell, Lenovo, Panasonic and Sony http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lctp.html http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lctp.html http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/

Better partner with Lenovo, Linux runs really almost perfectly on Thinkpads.

by Inufu 14y ago

Better partner with Lenovo, Linux runs really almost perfectly on Thinkpads.

th 14y ago

This would be an amazing duo. Lenovo as a company hasn't been great about supporting Linux on desktop/laptop machines, but Linux OSes tend to work great on their hardware. Many "Linux is my only OS" users I known use Thinkpads for this reason. If Canonical could handle the technical support for Lenovo machines with pre-installed Linux I think that would be a match made in heaven.

jackowayed 14y ago

It's still not perfect. I had a ThinkPad T520 this summer for work with 11.04. This is one of the highest quality ThinkPads. To make Unity and the DisplayPort port (as opposed to just VGA) work, I had to go into the BIOS and change a graphics setting to make it not automatically switch between the integrated and better graphics card. This made unity work, but it also made something terrible happen when I actually plugged in a monitor with DisplayPort. I believe that both the laptop screen and monitor went to 1024x768 and couldn't be coerced out. The next step, to get full resolution on our 30" monitors, was to install some different video drivers. That was going to be harder to reverse, so I just gave up and dealt with nonoptimal resolution via VGA. I also had a terrible time disconnecting monitors. Half the time when I unplugged the VGA it would just give me a blank screen. Also, a few times when listening to music, the entire machine froze and it played the last ~2 seconds of audio repeatedly, with no sign of escape besides restarting. We've come a long way from when several hours of work to make wifi work was a given, but I still don't think I've ever owned a Linux laptop where all hardware worked perfectly.

tomrod 14y ago
Xrandr? Check out my post on messing around with this in openbox (if it helps): https://sites.google.com/site/thomasroderick/blog/9102012--xrandr https://sites.google.com/site/thomasroderick/blog/9102012--x...
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rogerbinns 14y ago

I'm part of the Thinkpad faithful and recently updated to a new model. From dmesg: [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: BIOS _OSI(Linux) query ignored

etfb 14y ago

I used to believe that before I got a Thinkpad. Now I think: if this is "almost perfect", I'm in trouble.

reirob 14y ago

I second this. There are actually some distributors that sell Lenovo laptops with Linux on it: http://www.emperorlinux.com http://www.emperorlinux.com : provides laptops preinstalled with Linux from Dell, Lenovo, Panasonic and Sony http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lctp.html http://www.linuxcertified.com/linux-laptop-lctp.html http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/ http://www.linuxemporium.co.uk/