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Debian Lenny to Squeeze on Thinkpad T42
The good:- Faster bootup.
- Very fast switching between X and a VT.
- Firefox 3.5 is much faster than 3.0.
- Most Thinkpad extra keys now work great out of the box.
- Cool desktop backgrounds.
The bad:- X11 looked funny. Turns out no themes were installed. Had to install gnome-themes.
- Got a bunch of warnings from udev on bootup, coming from z60_xserver-xorg-input-wacom.rules, so I purged xserver-xorg-input-wacom.
- The ACPI hotkey events changed names, so some hooks I had set up in /etc/acpi/events stopped working until I updated the names.
- EmulateWheel setting in xorg.conf no longer works. xinput works. I installed gpointing-device-settings, which is a very convenient solution.
- Alt_R keycode is now 108 instead of 113.
The ugly:- X wouldn't start. Turns out it was because gdm wasn't installed. Why did gdm get removed during upgrade? Maybe it wanted to replace it with gdm3? But it didn't install gdm3.
Extra notes for clean install:
ReplyDeleteNeed a /etc/modprobe.d/thinkpad_acpi.conf with this line or else volume buttons are hardware only so no OSD:
options thinkpad_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffffff experimental=1
See also: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524425
To handl Fn-F7 myself, need to disable gnome xrandr plugin by unchecking it in /apps/gnome_settings_daemon/plugins/xrandr/. Then I can hook it up to my video.sh script using a normal keyboard shortcut.
To swap right mouse with middle mouse, need to check resize_with_right_button in gconf-editor under /apps/metacity/general/.