[ltp] t43 and ibm-acpi

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/23/05, Domas Monkus <domas.m@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> I can't get Fn-F7 to work on my T43. Whenever I press these keys,
> nothing happens, even though the hotkeys are all enabled and the
> needed acpi event and action scripts are in place.
> As a matter of fact even doing ' echo "lcd_disable" >
> /proc/acpi/ibm/video ' gives no result. What could be the cause? I get
> this behaviour with the .8 and .11 ibm_acpi drivers.
> I've compiled the 2.6.12.5 kernel with a bunch of patches (sata_pm,
> suspend2, trackpoint, etc) and the latest ibm_acpi driver (.11). Being
> lazy I just copied the new ibm_acpi.c file over the old one.
>=20
> I was thinking of letting the thinkpad handle Fn-F7 and Fn-F5. How
> should I set the hotkey mask to do this?
>=20

According to the ibm-acpi website (http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/)
the t43 is not yet supported.  you'll need to send your dsdt to
Borislav for decoding.

Alex

> Thanks,
> Domas