Thinkpad T510 Drivers

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Brittany Bhadd

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Aug 3, 2024, 2:55:49 PM8/3/24

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Immediately upon stealing a glance at any one of my ThinkPads, I feel drawn into a different era simply from the design cues; the thick bezels around the LCD screens, the tiny palm rest under the keyboard, and the unforgettable bento box designs of the 90s.

True enough, modern uses for such vintage hardware are limited. What can 25 year old hardware do well, aside from run 25 year old software? The answer lies within the question. With the right outfitting of period software, these gems of yesteryear excel like they once did.

I often see stories of intrepid individuals looking to push the limits of old hardware and new software by forcing the two to interact. Some aficionados prefer to find new ways to make old software work through virtualization. I find this intriguing, but prefer a nearly opposite approach. Make old software run on old hardware. My collection of ThinkPads is one means to this end.

Hello fellow thinkpaders!!! i am in desperate need for a set of recovery discs for a Thinkpad w510, the previous owner thought Ubuntu would be a great idea but its not for me. Any help or costs involved would be appreciated

Hello Fellow Thinkpad fans. I have just aquired a T21 its in excellent condition little use but no hard drive. I have installed windows 98SE but am struggling to get drivers to work from lenovo web site. Does any one have a original recover image i could access please. Thank you all. Mike.

I want to re-installation windows7 Pro sp1 x64 for my laptop T510, But I not have system recovery drive in my laptop.
If I use Operating system Windows 7 Pro Sp1 x64 recovery DVD disc from Lenovo, the OS win7 after installed it will have windows license and can update ?

Dare one mention Linux? I was given an Thinkpad with a Watcom touch screen for drawing on. About 1 gb of memory. Originally ran on XP. Someone had put Ubuntu on it but approx 70% of memory was used just sitting there. I put a 32bit version of Linux MX on it. It now is relatively fleet of foot and only uses 30% sitting still. The Watcom pen and eraser was automatically recognized and I was able to download the original drawing program that was on it originally. No geekiness required.

I have IBM think pad t23 with XP. I am attempting to re-boot the system. Powered on. Beeps. Then no response. Need OS XP recovery disk to attempt OS download and recovery. If you have a recovery set, please tell me how I might obtain a copy.

can anyone please send me a link to so that i can download a copy of the official lenovo thinkpad windows 10 pro OEM recovery media set for my thinkpad t450s because i bought a used lenovo thinkpad t450s off ebay.com for $57.81.

This is a Linux ACPI driver for the ThinkPad laptops written by Borislav Deianov, and currently maintained by Henrique de Moraes Holschuh and is included with the Linux kernel. It aims to support various features of these laptops which are accessible through the ACPI framework but not otherwise supported by the generic Linux ACPI drivers. As a kernel module, thinkpad-acpi works as a bridge to deliver information about certain hardware events like key presses or control the state of certain hardware features by software.

This is a Linux ACPI driver for the ThinkPad laptops written by Borislav Deianov and Henrique de Moraes Holschuh. The driver replaces ibm-acpi in Linux mainline as of 2.6.22 (March 2007). To confuse matters further, it appears that there was also an older (now abandoned) driver of the same name written by Erik Rigtorp which never made it into the mainline kernel. The current thinkpad-acpi contains essentially the same functionality as ibm-acpi with some added features. Among which are registering of acpi events to the "thinkvantage" and volume/mute buttons which could previously only be accessed through the use of the tpb utility.

To view which hotkeys are active you can use "acpi_listen", but that is deprecated. A better way is to use "lsinput" and "input-events" commands to look at the output of the thinkpad-acpi input device(s).

One important difference from ibm-acpi for those who wish to enable all possible hot keys, is that thinkpad-acpi automatically enables them. One should not need to do anything to get the best possible thinkpad-acpi configuration for his ThinkPad (as long as he is using the latest thinkpad-acpi).

In particular, old documentation that tells you to "echo enable,0xffffffff >/proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey", or to give thinkpad-acpi any hotkey= module parameters to enable hot keys by default, is likely incorrect.

The thinkpad-acpi driver has detailed documentation, which is shipped inside the Linux kernel sources, as "Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt" or as "Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt". If you feel a need to change the hot key mask manually, it is probably best to look at that documentation first to understand the full side effects of any changes.