Wonderful news for Gluglug X60 owners
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When the delivery guy brought me my very own Gluglug X60 I was very excited. The first completely free computer! And it was mine! It works almost flawless although it's more than a decade old. The downside was heating. Lots of it. And finally the battery was at about 2 hours. With the latest updates in Libreboot (the free BIOS replacement) it has went up to 4 hours for medium workload. And for reading ebooks with a dimmed screen, disabled networking, removed removable media and all other apps closed I get 6 and a half hours.
Also, the initial power consumption was caused by the unresponsive backlight and the need to stop the CPU to go into sleep. Both problems are solved.
Cheers
Good to hear that!
Here's a few tips that might help with heating and power https://trisquel.info/en/wiki/optimizing-battery-time
Right. Blacklist dm-crypt. And other smart tips. And tune a libreboot/coreboot laptop from the BIOS.
Those are *examples* and most users don't run libreboot/coreboot...
I am a member!
Great stuff, thanks for the update; the courier is delivering mine today and I can't wait to start tinkering with it!
I <3 my Gluglug too. Props to ahj for mentioning them here before
they got RYF certification[1]. I got a bargin as a result.
[1]
https://trisquel.info/en/forum/gluglug-thinkpad-x60-w-coreboot-mini-review
Stupid question, but how do I flash? The instructions start with
> Build dependencies (works on apt-get distros):
> $ sudo ./builddeb
but I get
> sudo: ./builddeb: command not found
when I try that.
Do you have libreboot_bin or the source?
With the bin you can't build it, as there is no source.
The part you need from the documentation is right after:
>>>
Look in libreboot_src/bin (if you just built the ROM's) or libreboot_bin/bin and copy the ROM into libreboot_bin/flashrom or libreboot_src/flashrom (depending on which one you want to use), renaming the copy to 'coreboot.rom'.
Flash it!
$ sudo ./flashrom -p internal -w coreboot.rom
If it complains about 3 Macronix flash chips (on the ThinkPad X60) detected then do that:
$ sudo ./flashrom -p internal -w coreboot.rom -c "MX25L1605D/MX25L1608D"
You don't have to flash the default coreboot.rom; there are other ROM's aswell, so look at the list below.
You should see "VERIFIED" written at the end of the flashrom output.
If so, SHUT DOWN FULLY! DO NOT RESTART - YOU NEED TO SHUT DOWN *FULLY*. THAT IS, *POWER OFF*! WAIT A FEW SECS, THEN BOOT!
Recommended ROM's to flash:
ThinkPad X60 (./bin/x60): US Qwerty keyboard, no dock: coreboot.rom
ThinkPad X60 (./bin/x60): US Dvorak keyboard, no dock: coreboot_dvorak.rom
ThinkPad X60 (./bin/x60): US Qwerty keyboard, with dock: coreboot_serial.rom
ThinkPad X60 (./bin/x60): US Dvorak keyboard, with dock: coreboot_serial_dvorak.rom
ThinkPad X60 (./bin/x60): UK Qwerty keyboard, no dock: coreboot_ukqwerty.rom
ThinkPad X60 (./bin/x60): UK Dvorak keyboard, no dock: coreboot_ukdvorak.rom
ThinkPad X60 (./bin/x60): UK Qwerty keyboard, with dock: coreboot_serial_ukqwerty.rom
ThinkPad X60 (./bin/x60): UK Dvorak keyboard, with dock: coreboot_serial_ukdvorak.rom
Okay, so, I followed those instructions, it said "VERIFIED", then I shut it down fully and waited about thirty seconds before trying to power it back on.
The screen no longer turns on. I think I bricked it.
Have you tried the increase screen brightness key as recommended in
the instructions for this eventuality? Fn+Home on mine.
This key might 'wrap,' i.e. go black just after you reach max, in
which case there's a command line fix also in the instructions.
Failing that there's a guide to debricking in the instructions again,
but most likely you just need to increase the screen brightness
because it said 'VERIFIED'.
Thank you so much!!! That was all it was. I'm really relieved.
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