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I've just installed Hydrogen RC1 on my Lenovo T410s and this is a list of issues I've encountered so far during installation and initial use. (Note some are already solved and placed here for others to use.)
Live and Installation Issues
* Some minor hardware controls (brightness, volume, touchpad) do not work in the Live system but do work in the installed system.
* There are some text wrapping issues in the graphic install (probably not unique to this hardware).
* [RESOLVED] No MBR on secondary drive
So the installation was successful, but on reboot nothing happened. A cursor sat blinking in the top left hand corner of the screen until I ran out of patience. Some Googling lead me to understand that when you choose to not change the MBR of hd0 you can't tell the install script to install GRUB in the MBR of hd1.
The T410s has a 1.8" drive at hd0 and an "UltraBay" that can be cold-swapped with hard drives, DVD drives and whatever other slim hardware you can squeeze in there, which is at hd1. I have a Windows drive in the 1.8" bay and 2.5" in the UltraBay. The BIOS of the T410s allows you to boot from either device and set it as the default, which is really handy. So even though I was installing BunsenLabs on hd1, the install script asked to change the MBR of hd0, and if you choose no, GRUB doesn't get installed.
The workaround for this was to physically remove that drive and perform the installation again, so the installer script does change the MBR of the primary drive - because there's now only one drive in the machine.
Edit: Or, I could have done this:
From any Debian (jessie) live system:
sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX
Replace "X" with the letter assigned to the target drive.
Post-installation issues:
* [RESOLVED] The keyboard is mapped incorrectly. My machine has an American keyboard but BL thinks I have a British one. This will be because I'm speaking British English and not American English. Is this a BL issue or a Debian one? (Unresolved.)
Edit: Following Head_on_a_stick's suggestion, I edited /etc/default/keyboard and altered the XKBLAYOUT thus:
XKBLAYOUT="us"
* Mute button only mutes and does not unmute... ever. I have no sound after pressng 'mute' once, three reboots ago. Plugging and unplugging the headphones selects 'mute' on the taskbar, but there's no sound either through headphones or speakers. WEIRD.
* [RESOLVED]Touchpad vertical scroll does not work. Edit: It started working after the second reboot. Shrug.
Last edited by Enzyme (2015-10-03 12:29:20)
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I was installing BunsenLabs on hd1, the install script asked to change the MBR of hd0, and if you choose no, GRUB doesn't get installed.
The workaround for this was to physically remove that drive and perform the installation again, so the installer script does change the MBR of the primary drive - because there's now only one drive in the machine. (Any tips on how to perform this workaround without reinstalling the system?)
From any Debian (jessie) live system:
sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX
Replace "X" with the letter assigned to the target drive.
* The keyboard is mapped incorrectly. My machine has an American keyboard but BL thinks I have a British one. This will be because I'm speaking British English and not American English. Is this a BL issue or a Debian one? (Unresolved.)
Try this:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
If that doesn't work, edit /etc/default/keyboard directly.
https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard
* Touchpad vertical scroll does not work. (Unresolved.)
Please post the output of:
synclient
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T420 user here:
Check out xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.
also I use lm-sensors and thinkfan packages. Google is your friend for configuration for fan control etc.
sudo apt-get install lm-sensors thinkfan
also if the t410 bas bluetooth, you can turn it off for battery savings
with
rfkill block bluetooth
in /etc/rc.local
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Last edited by redcollective (2015-10-03 11:26:08)
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T420 user here:
Check out xserver-xorg-input-synaptics.
also I use lm-sensors and thinkfan packages. Google is your friend for configuration for fan control etc.
Yeah, thinkfan is a must running Debian Wheezy on this machine. I went to get it just now, but...:
Setting up thinkfan (0.9.2-1) ...
Job for thinkfan.service failed. See 'systemctl status thinkfan.service' and 'journalctl -xn' for details.
invoke-rc.d: initscript thinkfan, action "start" failed.
dpkg: error processing package thinkfan (--configure):
subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1
Processing triggers for systemd (215-17+deb8u2) ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
thinkfan
E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
lm-sensors was already installed.
also if the t410 bas bluetooth, you can turn it off for battery savings
with
rfkill block bluetooth
in /etc/rc.local
red
May battery lasts a long time, but I did that anyway. Thanks!
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From any Debian (jessie) live system:
sudo grub-install --recheck /dev/sdX
Replace "X" with the letter assigned to the target drive.
Thanks. Edited the original to include your suggestion.
Try this:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration
If that doesn't work, edit /etc/default/keyboard directly.
https://wiki.debian.org/Keyboard
Thanks again. Edited the original to include changing the layout to gb and not us.
Should I put the notion that British English + Australia or New Zealand = US keyboard in the suggestions thread?
The touchpad worked after a reboot. Thanks anyway.
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Wait a second - BunsenLabs doesn't use PulseAudio, does it?
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Wait a second - BunsenLabs doesn't use PulseAudio, does it?
Yes, I think it does.
Check with:
pstree|grep pulse
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Nope, no pulse in the process list.
That's both a relief, in that pulse sucks and I want to burn it with fire, and a problem, because the sound issues are now persistent and seemingly related to the software controls but can't be solved by burning simply pulse with fire.
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the sound issues are now persistent and seemingly related to the software controls
Are you talking about the mute issue mentioned in your OP?
Please describe your problem as fully as possible.
It may be best to start a new thread for this issue.
I'm pretty sure PA *is* installed (unless hhh has changed the ISO image)
EDIT: Pulseaudio has improved greatly in recent years and is now a mature, reliable piece of software, IMO.
Last edited by Head_on_a_Stick (2015-10-03 13:17:40)
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re thinkfan,
It must be configured.
see http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=118734
I hope this helps.
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May battery lasts a long time, but I did that anyway. Thanks!
forgot to say - you'll have to fetch the rfkill package first.
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Wait a second - BunsenLabs doesn't use PulseAudio, does it?
Actually, it does, and I have the same issue on my T500. What happens is there's a conflict between alsa's unmuting and pulse's. Open pavucontrol, go to the Ouput tab and I bet it's muted there.
See if removing pulse fixes it (WFM)...
sudo apt-get purge pulseaudio pavucontrol && sudo apt-get install alsa-base && sudo apt-get --purge autoremove
Reboot.
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* Mute button only mutes and does not unmute... ever. I have no sound after pressng 'mute' once, three reboots ago. Plugging and unplugging the headphones selects 'mute' on the taskbar, but there's no sound either through headphones or speakers. WEIRD.
Had that happen on my Toshiba L10
alsactl init
in a terminal cured it, not touched the mute button since, so can't say if the cure is permanent or not.. or if that'll work for you.
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* [RESOLVED] The keyboard is mapped incorrectly. My machine has an American keyboard but BL thinks I have a British one. This will be because I'm speaking British English and not American English. Is this a BL issue or a Debian one?
The installer gives you the opportunity to choose a keyboard layout, which can be different from your language or location selections. This is a Debian feature. Of course if you missed it at the time there are the other ways indicated here to fix it.
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