Devices/Ideapad

Revision as of 17:57, 22 November 2010

The Lenovo S10-3t IdeaPads were given to attendees of the MeeGo Conference 2010 (Thanks Intel and Nokia!). This page aims to collect issues, solutions and hacks by the MeeGo Community for this device. It is mostly collected from the Lenovo S10-3t improvements thread on MeeGo Forums.

Big issues

It seems that some users get their wifi (and bluetooth) disabled and/or the battery status. There is some talk going on these two links, with work around that may or may not work. For the atheros folks it worked but the ones with broadcom it didn't.

• Problem: BROADCOM based wifi: No way to enable WiFi after switching it off using the switch
  • Workaround: http://www.proli.net/2010/11/19/hidden-wifi-switches/
  • Solution: Waiting for some help from Intel or BIOS updates from Lenovo.
• Problem: ATHEROS workaround: No way to enable WiFi after switching it off using the switch
  • Workaround: http://forum.meego.com/showthread.php?p=13321
  • Solution: Waiting for some help from Intel or BIOS updates from Lenovo.
• Problem: Resume from suspend to RAM does not work every time
  • Workaround:
  • Solution:

Using the Ideapad with MeeGo

Finger scrolling with Chromium

The ChromeTouch extension enables kinetic scrolling with the browser and the touch screen.

On-screen keyboard

See the following resources

• Input Method Framework/MeeGo 1.1
• Turn your Lenovo into a real slate
• forum thread

Software Setup

The MeeGo 1.0 Netbook FAQ has resources on

• Application installation
• Dropbox
• Skype
• Codecs
• Changing keyboard layout post-install (since some of us accidently set it to US rather than UK)

fennec-qt (Firefox Mobile)

• For fullscreen run "fennec -target slate"

Hardware Configuration

Chipset listing (for Windows Drivers)

Touchpad

To enable RMB in the RightBottom corner of the touchpad issue the following command:

 synclient RBCornerButton=3