Thinkpad x230 acpi_ibm

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

On Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:46:21 -0700
Matthew Gibson <mdg583 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I have a thinkpad x230. I have some of the issues others on this
> mailing list have discussed, such as no brightness controls, and some
> of the special buttons don't work.
> 
> I have some experience with freebsd, but not a lot.
> 
> I am running 9.1-RELEASE (r243825) on amd64.
> 
> The main issue is similiar to
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-acpi/2011-July/007227.html
> If I load the acpi_ibm module, it shows up in kldstat, but no message
> is given on the dmesg, and nothing appears in sysctl.
> 
> Any help is appreciated.
> 
> the volume buttons work, the speaker and microphone mute doesn't
> work. The brightness fn keys don't work. Also the power button
> doesn't seem to initiate a shutdown, even though I have
> hw.acpi.power_button_state: S5
> 
I use the following scripts to help me with this problem on a X220:

http://www.alogt.com/freebsd/XonX220

starts X for me and

http://www.alogt.com/freebsd/setbrightness

is used to adjust brightness.

You might have to adjust them as some modules might be already loaded
at your machine. These scripts work for me on 10.

Erich
> Matthew
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