ThinkpadA31

  • Contact: Rob Lesan
  • Make: Thinkpad
  • Model: A31

Current Issues

Hardware details

Hardware Information

Screen & Monitors

Device

Works?

Bug #

in Hoary (current stable)?

in Breezy (current development)?

Screen

Yes

Yes

Correct resolution?

Yes

Yes

Correct refresh rate?

Yes

Yes

3D Acceleration

Yes

Yes

External monitor works?

Untested

Untested

External monitor - mirrors

Untested

Untested

External monitor - extend desktop

Untested

Untested

Power Management

Battery detected?

Yes

Yes

Hibernates?

Yes

Yes

Sleep

No, nothing happens.

No.(*) see notes

Dim/Blank monitor?

Yes

Yes

Sound

Sound works?

Yes

Yes

Correct volume?

Yes

Yes

Hardware volume switch

Yes

Yes

Headphone jack

Yes

Yes

Mic jack

Untested

Untested

Networking

Wired NIC

Yes

Yes

Wireless NIC

Yes

Yes

PCMCIA NIC

Yes

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

Infrared

Untested

Untested

Touchpad & Mice

Trackpoint

Yes

Yes

External mouse - USB

Yes

Yes

External mouse - Serial

Untested

Untested

Docking Station/Port Replicator

AC through replicator

Untested

Untested

USB

Untested

Untested

Serial

Untested

Untested

Parallel

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - VGA

Untested

Untested

External Monitor - DVI

Untested

Untested

Modem

Untested

Untested

NIC

Untested

Untested

PS/2

Untested

Untested

Additional Hardware

CD/DVD drive

Yes

Yes

PCMCIA cards

Yes

Untested

Function and other keys

Fn key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Hoary (current stable)?

in Breezy (current development)?

+ Space

Change screen resolutions

No

No

+ F3

Blank screen

Yes

Yes

+ F4

Sleep

No

No (*) see notes

+ F12

Hibernate

Yes

Yes

+ Home

Increase brightness

Yes

Yes

+ End

Decrease brightness

Yes

Yes

+ PgUp

Keyboard light

Yes

Yes

Other special keys

Key

Operation

Keycode

Works?

Bug #

in Hoary (current stable)?

in Breezy (current development)?

Access Thinkpad

In Windows, bring up IBM Help

No

No

Volume Up

Increase volume

Yes, but no OSD

Yes, but no OSD

Volume Down

Decrease volume

Yes, but no OSD

Yes, but no OSD

Mute

Mute volume

Yes, but no OSD

Yes, but no OSD

E-mail

Bring up email program

0xec

No

Yes

Home

Bring up web browser viewing user's homepage

0xb2

No

Yes

Magnifying glass

Open search program

0xe5

No

Yes

Open browser

Open web browser

0xe6

No

No

Reload browser

Reload current page in web browser

0xe7

No

No

Stop browser

Stop loading page in web browser

0xe8

No

No

Forward

Forward in web browser

0xea

No

No

Back

Back in web browser

0xe9

No

No

Notes

## Add any notes here

The sleep can be made working by disabling acpi and switching to apm. A3x thinkpads have bad/incomplete ACPI implementation and quite realible apm implementation in BIOS. When you switch apm on all power management "just works".

LaptopTestingTeam/Old/ThinkpadA31 (last edited 2010-02-24 14:45:08 by host58-172-dynamic)