Comments on: Thinkpad X61 Configs

By: Fix Your MTRR on Gentoo with Thinkpad x61 Intel x3100 | rejon.org is Jon Phillips.

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 15:24:27 +0000

[...] noticed for ages that my thinkpad x61 with 4 gigs of ram has been sluggish on the desktop with redraws. Now that I have a bit more time, I looked into this, [...]

By: jon

jon — Sun, 18 Nov 2007 04:38:32 +0000

BTW, the steps outlined above and xrandr totally work for changing output. I actually found that I don’t need any of the acpi hacks or anything, nor do I need to even change my X config to get the randr stuff to work! Cool! Let it be known! Also, Kelvin, thanks for the quick script!

By: Kelvin Nicholson

Kelvin Nicholson — Sat, 17 Nov 2007 00:42:47 +0000

Thanks for pointing that out Marius — I’ll have to give that a whirl. I ended up writing my own little switch app:

http://www.kelvinism.com/tech-blog/zenity-gui-shell-script/

Gets the job done, for now at least.

By: Mark A. Hershberger

Mark A. Hershberger — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 17:36:37 +0000

I’ve an X60 and the intel driver xrandr works like a champ for doing dynamic dual-head displays … at least under Ubuntu.

By: Marius Gedminas

Marius Gedminas — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 12:49:56 +0000

You could try the ‘intel’ driver instead of ‘i810′ and read this page: http://www.intellinuxgraphics.org/dualhead.html

By: seva

seva — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 21:31:43 +0000

Try this http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Sample_Fn-F7_script