ThinkPad x100e and Fedora 12
I had installed the Fedora 12 via external DVD driver, I hadn't faced any problem during the installation. However, Fedora freezes on the first boot. I can make it boot by disabling ACPI in Grub.
At Grub prompt press 'e' to edit the command before booting, then select the second line and again press 'e' to edit selected command. Type acpi=off at the end of the command, press 'b' to start the boot procedure.
After I successfully boot up the Fedora, I updated the system. Unfortunately, the ACPI problem hasn't been solved by updates. I added acpi=off to the grub.conf file under /boot/grub/grub.conf to make it permanent (run grub-install after editing grub.conf file, like grub-install /dev/sda). Disabling ACPI isn't very good idea, especially in a laptop. As I found on the net, Ubuntu works fine when acpi=on. I am going to try finding better Fedora solution later. I think it is enough to get it work today.
The wireless adapter driver isn't supported on default. You need to get it from Realtek website and build it (to install compiler and other development packages as prerequisite). The RTL8192SE driver works well in my system, even wireless adapter is reported as 8172 in lspci output.
Finally, I typed the commands to getting the scroll button work as follows;
> yum install gpointing-device-settings.i686 > gpointing-device-settings
- Select TPPS/2 IBM TrackPoint, check "Use wheel emulation" and set 2 as button value (not permanent!).
Note: After I wrote the explanation above, I found another way to run Fedora on x100e. I patched and compiled the kernel. I run the Fedora without acpi=off now. I sent the patch to other two users and they reported that it works fine on their x100e as well. Please write me if you need the patch.
May 5th, 2010 - 03:50
thx for your post. i just want know. do u have try lenovo x100e on fedora 13?
May 5th, 2010 - 10:03
Hi,
Unfortunately, I haven’t tried the Fedora 13 yet. I’ve been waiting for the release date to try (last 14 days). I think similar problems will be occurred in Fedora 13 (I checked the Ubuntu 10.04 and no fix yet). Currently, I’ve been running Fedora 12 on x100e without any problem (acpi=on and no freeze) by patching and compiling my own kernel. I think/hope the official patch will be created soon.
May 5th, 2010 - 10:26
Hi Alper,
I still use acpi-off.. if u dont mind, can u send to me your kernel. i newbie, i dont know how to create linux kernel..
my email :-
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thanks =)
May 7th, 2010 - 14:52
I and Rizal patched and compiled the kernel together. Fedora 12 works fine with acpi=on in his system.
Please write me, if someone else needs to run Fedora 12 on x100e.