Story of a laptop user

[Lars Engels]

Am 2014-02-04 22:05, schrieb Adrian Chadd:
> Hi,
> 
> These should be wiki pages. Like the thinkpad wiki has for Linux. I'll
> go add pages for the T42, T60, T400 and X230 if you add yours.
> 
> 
> So:
> 
> * iwn ; yeah, its crap. nothing I can do about that.
> * volume controls - we need to teach the acpi_ibm and/or keyboard
> driver about them. For example, they plain do nothingon the X230 I
> have. The T60 - it adjusts the global mixer. The T400 - it adjusts the
> current app volume (eg, when in vlc it adjusts vlc.) It isn't
> consistent or useful.
> * the brightness keys - is this occuring because you have acpi_ibm
> loaded? I have a feeling the root problem there is again to do with
> the ACPI DSDT and acpi_ibm / acpi_video adjusting the wrong bits. My
> T400 suffers the same. Can you install the acpi_call package and
> search the archives for the posts that say what to do?
> * .. and when you create the wiki page for your laptop, would you
> please upload the acpi dump? (acpidump -dt > /tmp/blah.txt) That way
> we can see what parts of the tree(s) it's attaching things to.
> * same with devinfo -v
> 
> Thanks,


The wiki pages are a good idea!

Is there anything we can use from Linux' ibm-acpi module?

http://repo.or.cz/w/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git