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Dark screen when wake / Unable to control screen brightness [closed]

Running Ubuntu 11.04 on Lenovo ThinkPad with an Nvida graphics card. The unit goes to sleep when the lid is shut. (The unit goes to suspend mode (not to disk/hibernate), AC gets turned off, running ...
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No /dev/video under Ubuntu 11.04 [closed]

My webcam has been working fine until today on my Thinkpad X300 running Ubuntu 11.04. I was able to use skype and as well as google video chat. Suddenly video is not working. However, audio is fine on ...
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How to (un)dock IBM Thinkpad X41 from X4 Dock(ing station) successfully?

I'd like to start using my docking station again; however, it still doesn't work as it should, see the following bug descriptions (with special focus on Thinkpad X41 & the X4 Dock). Given that it ...
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Suddenly webcam of my x300 is not working

I am running Ubuntu 11.04 on my Thinkpad x300. My webcam was working fine with skype or gmail video. Suddenly it is stopped working. Now, no LED green light either with skype or gmail video call. I ...
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How do I perform easy switching to external monitor

I am currently changing between my laptop and my external monitor with the NVidia X Server Settings program and I'm sure I'm doing it in a really dumb way: I currently select the external monitor, ...
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Enable zoom in and out on touchpad [closed]

I can use the touchpad scrolling with two fingers. The os is Natty and my laptop is a Thinkpad x220. But the touchpad doesn't support zoom in and out. Any suggestion?
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How not to enable bluetooth with hw-wireless switch?

My laptop has hardware switch for enabling and disabling wireless adapters. This includes both bluetooth and wlan. I rarely use bluetooth and would like to keep it disabled (soft blocked) unless I ...
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How do I set up the touchpad of a Lenovo x121e

I am using a Laptop Lenovo x121e (AMD-Version). The laptop has a Synaptics touchpad/trackpoint combination. The touchpad is very "jumpy" when trying to tap the pad for a mouse click. Normal mouse ...
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High resolution in Thinkpad T60 with ATI X1400

I salvaged good old T60 machine, with ATI X1400 and hi resolution screen (1600x1200). My problem is that Ubuntu does not detect higher resolutions than 1024x768. I can that radeon driver is sed ...
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Lenovo Thinkpad W520 cpufreq frequency scaling not working

For some reason my processor always seems to run on full speed even if I don't do anything. Looking through the web, I've found quite some suggestions. According to ...
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External monitor not detected with a Thinkpad 50e [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: External monitor not detected with a Thinkpad 50e Tempted by Ubuntu 11.04 I installed it on my Thinkpad 50e and the installation went very well. (I was replacing XP ...
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Wireless on ThinkPad Edge E420s

I have installed Kubuntu 11.04 (Natty) on my ThinkPad Edge E420 laptop. Unfortunately, the wireless is not working. I have got Windows 7 installed besides Kubuntu, and wireless is working with no ...
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What does Ubuntu do when I signal undocking to a laptop?

It seems that Ubuntu runs some script or command when I signal that I want to undock my laptop by pressing the undock button on the dock. Most visible thing that happens is that resolution on external ...
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Using a large monitor over VGA has strange bugs [closed]

I just hooked up a large (30" Dell) monitor over VGA to my ubuntu system (Thinkpad T420 with Intel grpahics running Narwal), and it sort of works, however there's a few things that are very off. On ...
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Thinkpad T410 abnormal power consumption and brightness keys behaviour

I've recently installed 11.04 on a fresh Lenovo ThinkPad T410 with a 9-cell battery, but it totally drains up from full battery after about 2:30 - 3:00 hours of normal use (mainly web surfing). The ...
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How to change screen resolution of Thinkpad x300?

I think that the maximum resolution I can get is 8192x8192. Could you tell me how can I SAFELY increase the screen resolution? Actually I wanted to try with xrandr command, but I am afraid that it ...
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ThinkPad TrackPoint Buttons Not Working Well

The TrackPoint itself works fine. But the three buttons below the spacebar don't. For example if I were to copy these lines, 1-10, using trackpoint buttons it'd start highlighting at 7. If I use the ...
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Inserting Lenovo ThinkPad X200s into (UltraBase) docking station mirror screen is always activated leading to non-optimal resolution [closed]

Builtin LCD should be 1440x900 External LCD should be 1920x1080 If Lenovo ThinkPad X200s is inserted into docking station the option mirror screen is always activated leading to a resolution of ...
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How to disable “N” Wireless Mode RTL8192on a Thinkpad Edge 15 Core i5

I've seen many owners of Thinkpad Edges which are supposed to be Linux-friendly having problems with wireless adapter. I've found several links inside askubuntu and in ubuntuforums which have a lot ...
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Taking advantage of an “Intel Turbo Memory” card for swap or fast bootup

I have an X61 thinkpad (currently running 10.10) that I purchased 3 years ago. I splurged a little and got a Turbo Memory expansion to improve my windows boots. When I installed 10.04 (and ...
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Unity and games don't work on new Thinkpad T420

Here's my setup: Lenovo ThinkPad T420, brand new NVIDIA Graphics Card 4GB of Ram 128GB Solid State Drive Intel Core i5 Processor Given these specs, there's no reason games and Unity shouldn't be ...