Fedora 12 Linux on the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e Laptop

This is a short HOWTO about getting Linux (Fedora 12) installed and to work with the Lenovo ThinkPad X100e (2876-2FG version UK). Fedora core 12 works out of the box for the main components except for:

1) To get integrated WiFi to work, follow this guide, run make, copy the firmware to the relevant place and run make install.

2) Problems with resume can be solved by using the following quirk: quirk.s3_bios. The patch was send upstream there.

3) KMS 3D acceleration has not been solved yet. A bug report has been opened.

Output of `lspci'

00:00.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 Host Bridge
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (int gfx)
00:05.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 1)
00:06.0 PCI bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] RS780 PCI to PCI bridge (PCIE port 2)
00:11.0 SATA controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 SATA Controller [AHCI mode]
00:12.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:12.1 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700 USB OHCI1 Controller
00:12.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:13.0 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB OHCI0 Controller
00:13.2 USB Controller: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 USB EHCI Controller
00:14.0 SMBus: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 SMBus Controller (rev 3c)
00:14.2 Audio device: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 Azalia (Intel HDA)
00:14.3 ISA bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SB700/SB800 LPC host controller
00:14.4 PCI bridge: ATI Technologies Inc SBx00 PCI to PCI Bridge
00:18.0 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
00:18.1 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
00:18.2 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
00:18.3 Host bridge: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
01:05.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc RS780M/RS780MN [Radeon HD 3200 Graphics]
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
03:00.0 Network controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. Device 8172 (rev 10)

CPUinfo

CPUFreq works with powernow_k8. Despite what cpuinfo says it only does 800Mhz and 1.6Ghz. Here is the output from cat /proc/cpuinfo.

processor       : 0
vendor_id       : AuthenticAMD
cpu family      : 15
model           : 127
model name      : AMD Athlon(tm) Neo Processor MV-40
stepping        : 2
cpu MHz         : 800.000
cache size      : 512 KB
fpu             : yes
fpu_exception   : yes
cpuid level     : 1
wp              : yes
flags           : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat
pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp lm
3dnowext 3dnow up rep_good extd_apicid pni cx16 lahf_lm svm extapic
cr8_legacy 3dnowprefetch
bogomips        : 1596.11
TLB size        : 1024 4K pages
clflush size    : 64
cache_alignment : 64
address sizes   : 40 bits physical, 48 bits virtual
power management: ts fid vid ttp tm stc 100mhzsteps

Other Resources

• Laptop and Notebook Unix Installation Guides (IBM/Lenovo)
• Linux Mobile Guide - Installing, Maintaining and Tuning of Linux on Mobile Computers

Credits

This guide has been contributed by kyzh and hadess.