[ltp] thinkpad 4.0 and tpctl 4.0 tarballs available for testing

[James Mckenzie]

Tom:

Where is your home page for the tpctl program?

Thanks.

James Mckenzie

On Sun, 2002-10-27 at 04:18, Thomas Hood wrote:
> Hi.  It would be helpful if folks would test the
> thinkpad and tpctl version 4.0 tarballs.
>    http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/thinkpad_4.0.tar.gz
>    http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/tpctl_4.0.tar.gz
> 
> This version of thinkpad/tpctl works properly only with very
> recent 2.4 kernels (... and with all 2.2 kernels).  To build
> debian packages from these tarballs you will need the most
> recent version of debhelper (4.1.18) in the unstable archive.
> 
> Please let me know if this release candidate solves
> the cannot-open-device problem.  Also let me know if I have
> broken anything else.
> 
> If you are a Debian user then you can follow the following
> procedure.  Make sure you have your kernel sources installed.
> Get the tarballs above and put them into some convenient place.
> Then as root do:
>     tar zxvf thinkpad_4.0.tar.gz
>     tar zxvf tpctl_4.0.tar.gz
>     cd thinkpad-4.0
>     make debs
>     dpkg -i ../thinkpad-base_4.0-1_i386.deb
>     dpkg -i ../thinkpad-source_4.0-1_i386.deb
>     cd ../tpctl-4.0
>     make deb
>     dpkg -i ../tpctl_4.0-1_i386.deb
>     cd /usr/src
>     rm -rf modules/thinkpad
>     tar zxvf thinkpad.tar.gz
>     cd $KERNEL_SOURCE_TREE
>     make-kpkg modules-image
>     dpkg --install ../thinkpad-modules-...4.0-1...deb
>     tpctl -x
> 
> If that doesn't work, please try
>     tpctl --device=/dev/thinkpad -x
> and
>     tpctl --device=/dev/smapi -x
> 
> --
> Thomas Hood
> 
> 
> 
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