[ltp] Can't use TPCTL

[Thomas Hood]

On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 02:29, Chris Hegan wrote:
> Using Debian, kernel 2.4.17, I can't use the tpctl package. It installs
> without error, but whenever I try to use it I get the same error
> message:
>  Can't open device file /dev/thinkpad with flags O_RDWR.  Exiting.
> I'm being lazy and hoping someone can tell me what this means before I
> start digging into it myself.
> Any suggestions appreciated.

You need to install a thinkpad-modules package for your
kernel.  Currently, there are no thinkpad-modules packages
available in the Debian archive.  You have to build one
from the thinkpad-source package using the make-kpkg utility.
Also be sure to install thinkpad-base.

Here's the procedure using, e.g., the 2.4.19 kernel sources
installed at /usr/src/linux-2.4.19
(If you don't use "sudo" then do the following as root.)

sudo apt-get install thinkpad-base thinkpad-source tpctl
cd /usr/src
tar zxvf thinkpad.tar.gz
cd linux-2.4.19
sudo make-kpkg modules_image
cd ..
sudo dpkg --install thinkpad-modules-2.4.19*.deb

Then tpctl should work.

--
Thomas Hood




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