Story of a laptop user

[Adrian Chadd]

It's all merged into the latest 3.x linux kernel.

And I dunno. The linux acpi probe and acpi video code is all over the place.



-a


On 5 February 2014 01:31, Lars Engels <lars.engels at 0x20.net> wrote:
> 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
>
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