Thinkpad’s smapi needs to be installed and configured to control battery charge thresholds in order maintain good battery life. Here are the things that need to done on BackTrack 4 to set this up Download tp_smapi from sourceforge tar it and install it tar xzvf tp_smapi-0.40.tgz cd tp_smapi-0.40 make make install Verify the installation by [...]

One of the beautiful features of a Thinkpad : Scrolling using middle button and trackpoint, is missing out of the box on BackTrack 4. Here is how you enable it. Based on Ubuntu bug 282387 , you need to patch xserver-xorg add source repos for the /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid main restricted deb-src http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ intrepid [...]