Installing Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex on IBM Lenovo 3000 G430

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Several days ago, my sister bought notebook, IBM Lenovo 3000 G430. She asked me to install Linux on her new notebook, then I tried Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, as I assumed that Ubuntu is one of the best Linux distro which have one of the best hardware support. Installation was running successful. Almost all of the hardware was running well, except for synaptics touch pad.

Lenovo 3000 G430

Then I tried to googling further to find more information about this problem. Refer to this Synaptics Touchpad Community Ubuntu Documentation, I should enable SHMConfig in order to make the touch pad work. How to enable SHMConfig? First, open your terminal, then type this command:

sudo gedit /etc/hal/fdi/policy/shmconfig.fdi

Copy and paste this into the file:

<?xml version=”1.0″ encoding=”UTF-8″?>
<deviceinfo version=”0.2″>
<device>
<match key=”input.x11_driver” string=”synaptics”>
<merge key=”input.x11_options.SHMConfig” type=”string”>True</merge>
</match>
</device>
</deviceinfo>

Save and close gedit then reboot the machine. Is it all done? No, not yet, I still can’t make my touchpad work, then I tried to find keyboard combination to activate the touchpad, which is Fn - F8.  I hit it twice, then voila.. Now I can make my touchpad work.

I’m sure that this is not final solution, cause I still have to hit keyboard Fn - F8 twice everytime I boot into GNOME Desktop Manager. But, don’t worry, in the next Ubuntu release (9.04) Jaunty Jackalope, I hope this problem can be solved 100%.

March 4, 2009 · Filed under Linux

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9 Comments »

  1. andika Said,

    April 6, 2009 @ 11:35 am

    Hi,

    I have the same notebook, type 20008 to be exact. I tried to install Ibex AMD64, but my WiFi can’t work yet due to RFKILL problem. Toggling RFKILL switch didn’t change anything. Do you have any hint to troubleshoot?

    TIA

  2. Suman Banik Said,

    April 16, 2009 @ 4:53 pm

    Please give me the software for lenova 3000G430 webcam manager

  3. admin Said,

    April 16, 2009 @ 11:17 pm

    @andika:
    Sorry, I don’t have a solution for your problem, I suggest you join ubuntuforums.org and ask your question there…

    @Suman Banik:
    What do you mean with software? I use ubuntu linux here, and I use none of the bundled software when installing…

  4. abhi datt Said,

    July 14, 2009 @ 1:20 am

    This is a very useful post. I confirm that this work for Ubuntu 9.04
    as well.

  5. rajit Said,

    July 15, 2009 @ 7:39 pm

    Could someone help me with my lenovo 3000 G430 4153-33Q, The touchpad scroll is not working. I have Windows Vista Ultimate installed.

  6. Thanh Vu Said,

    August 2, 2009 @ 1:50 pm

    Thank you very much! This solved my problem beautifully.

  7. Arun Said,

    August 11, 2009 @ 7:13 pm

    Hi Andika,

    It’s not a problem with the laptop.Actually ubuntu,a unix flavor doesn’t support some hardware because it will come with a default touchpad driver that would be different with what u are using.Actually I too have a laptop but of different series in Lenovo with Solaris & ubuntu 10.0 installed in it & it works fine.So if you dont mind could you tell me what version of ubuntu u were using & BTW I’ll try to solve your issue as soon as possible.

  8. ash Said,

    August 25, 2009 @ 11:18 pm

    is the webcam work properly ? i am using lenovo g430 but ubuntu 9.04 doesnt detect it

  9. SOUMYADITYA Said,

    December 22, 2009 @ 8:55 pm

    TRY WINDOWS 7. IT WORKS FINE ON MY SAME LAPTOP.

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