[ltp] more /dev/thinkpad

[Richard Neill]

I may be totally wrong here (if so, please would someone correct me!), 
but as I understand it, tcptl is a useful way to configure the BIOS 
settings of the thinkpad while it is still running the OS. However, I 
believe that if you are happy to just reboot it, you can make the 
settings directly within the BIOS.

[You can tell I'm a recent win98 user - I'm used to hourly reboots!
If I'm wrong here, please would someone let me know?]


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On a different matter, re the "Thinkpad Button", it does pop up some 
nice helpful stuff about using a thinkpad in general. But to someone 
using a thinkpad in an advanced way (ie not a newcomer to Windows), it's 
not all that helpful - I did read what appeared when I still had W98 
installed.

Regards


Richard












William Sherman -Visualization wrote:

> Okay, I guess I'm a bit thick.
> 
> I discovered the fact that tpctl allows one to control the CPU speed
> on my 770Z, so when I go and run it, I got an error message very
> similar to ones I'd recently seen on this list.
> 
> Unfortunately, I followed all the advice that seemed to apply to me,
> and even upgraded from tpctl-0.8.8 to tpctl-1.0.0, but still the
> error persists:
> 
> ----
> # tpctl -pma=high
> tpctl: System error message is: No such device
> tpctl: Can't open device file /dev/thinkpad with flags O_RDWR.  Exiting.
> # ls -l /dev/thinkpad
> crwxr-xr-x   1 root     root      10, 170 Jul 18  2000 /dev/thinkpad
> ----
> 
> Now I did see that the new version of tpctl uses /dev/thinkpad as a
> directory, but reading the README for tpctl-3.0pre2 I have the impression
> that pre 2.4 versions of Linux should not advance beyond using tpctl-1.0.
> 
> So I seem to be rather stuck, and welcome any and all advice.
> 
> 	Bill -- well, most advice,
> 
> P.S. if you're curious as to why I want to override the battery saving
> CPU speed, it's because the AC decector on my laptop doesn't work, so
> even when plugged in, I get poor performance -- it's been broken for 6
> months, and it just occured to me that this was happening (xine just isn't
> doing well enough with my DVDs).
> 
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