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<p>I picked up a new IBM Z60m laptop at work. Here’s the rundown from trying to install Debian:</p>
<ul>
<li>Forget Sarge; it doesn’t support the wired or wireless network cards or the hard disk controller.</li>
<li>Forget the <a href="http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2615.htm">Sarge+2.6.15</a> image with the internal CD-ROM drive; it doesn’t support it, though it finds the hard drive and the wired ethernet.</li>
<li>Since I don’t have the 2.6.15 image on my USB drive, I pulled out the USB CD-ROM and installed from that.</li>
<li>If you let the Debian installer partition for you, it leaves the 4.5GB restore partition. If you don’t want this, partition manually.</li>
<li>After it installs, you’ll want to add the following your /etc/modules:
<ul>
<li>radeonfb</li>
<li>cpufreq_userspace</li>
<li>speedstep_centrino</li>
</ul></li>
<li>The console framebuffer comes out to a whopping 210×65 characters (1600×1050 pixels).</li>
<li>Install powernowd to get the CPU scaling working properly.</li>
<li>At 800mhz (the lowest SpeedStep) with the screen dimmed all the way, the battery gets about 3h:30m.</li>
<li>You’ll need to put firmware for the IPW2200 driver in /lib/firmware; you can get it <a href="http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/">here</a>.</li>
<li>X is a real pain to get working. The ATI driver doesn’t seem to know about this card. The only way I managed was to disable the “dri” module and use the “fbdev” driver; I had to add an “fbset -depth 32″ at startup to get the color depth right.</li>
<li>The CD-ROM/DVD drive is also a real trip. Edit /etc/mkinitramfs/modules and add:
<ul>
<li>libata atapi_enabled=1</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Then dpkg-reconfigure your kernel image module (”dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.16-1-686″ for me).</li>
<li>This will let you mount CDs, but doesn’t seem to support the raw access needed by libdvdcss2. I still can’t play DVDs with this drive. libata ATAPI support is under active development, so hopefully this will clean up soon.</li>
</ul>
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<li>2009-Sep-11: <a href="2009-09-11-confusing-bind-with-cnames.html">Confusing BIND with CNAMEs</a></li>
<li>2009-Feb-19: <a href="2019-02-19-the-odd-case-of-my-mugging.html">The odd case of my mugging</a></li>
<li>2009-Feb-03: <a href="2009-02-03-5-packet-tcp-connection.html">5-packet TCP connection?</a></li>
<li>2006-Apr-07: <a href="2006-04-07-ibm-z60m-in-linux.html">IBM Z60m in Linux</a></li>
<li>2006-Mar-21: <a href="2006-03-21-hp-procurve-2824-mini-review.html">HP ProCurve 2824 Mini-Review</a></li>
<li>2006-Mar-21: <a href="2006-03-21-redundant-network-interfaces.html">Redundant Network Interfaces</a></li>
<li>2006-Mar-16: <a href="2006-03-16-spanning-tree-protocol-introduction.html">Spanning Tree Protocol Introduction</a></li>

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I picked up a new IBM Z60m laptop at work. Here’s the rundown from trying to install Debian:
* Forget Sarge; it doesn’t support the wired or wireless network cards or the hard disk controller.
* Forget the [Sarge+2.6.15](http://kmuto.jp/b.cgi/debian/d-i-2615.htm) image with the internal CD-ROM drive; it doesn’t support it, though it finds the hard drive and the wired ethernet.
* Since I don’t have the 2.6.15 image on my USB drive, I pulled out the USB CD-ROM and installed from that.
* If you let the Debian installer partition for you, it leaves the 4.5GB restore partition. If you don’t want this, partition manually.
* After it installs, you’ll want to add the following your /etc/modules:
* radeonfb
* cpufreq\_userspace
* speedstep\_centrino
* The console framebuffer comes out to a whopping 210×65 characters (1600×1050 pixels).
* Install powernowd to get the CPU scaling working properly.
* At 800mhz (the lowest SpeedStep) with the screen dimmed all the way, the battery gets about 3h:30m.
* You’ll need to put firmware for the IPW2200 driver in /lib/firmware; you can get it [here](http://ipw2200.sourceforge.net/).
* X is a real pain to get working. The ATI driver doesn’t seem to know about this card. The only way I managed was to disable the “dri” module and use the “fbdev” driver; I had to add an “fbset -depth 32″ at startup to get the color depth right.
* The CD-ROM/DVD drive is also a real trip. Edit /etc/mkinitramfs/modules and add:
* libata atapi\_enabled=1
* Then dpkg-reconfigure your kernel image module (”dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-2.6.16-1-686″ for me).
* This will let you mount CDs, but doesn’t seem to support the raw access needed by libdvdcss2. I still can’t play DVDs with this drive. libata ATAPI support is under active development, so hopefully this will clean up soon.
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1. 2009-Sep-11: [Confusing BIND with CNAMEs](2009-09-11-confusing-bind-with-cnames.html)
1. 2009-Feb-19: [The odd case of my mugging](2019-02-19-the-odd-case-of-my-mugging.html)
1. 2009-Feb-03: [5-packet TCP connection?](2009-02-03-5-packet-tcp-connection.html)
1. 2006-Apr-07: [IBM Z60m in Linux](2006-04-07-ibm-z60m-in-linux.html)
1. 2006-Mar-21: [HP ProCurve 2824 Mini-Review](2006-03-21-hp-procurve-2824-mini-review.html)
1. 2006-Mar-21: [Redundant Network Interfaces](2006-03-21-redundant-network-interfaces.html)
1. 2006-Mar-16: [Spanning Tree Protocol Introduction](2006-03-16-spanning-tree-protocol-introduction.html)