[ltp] SuSE 9.2 - Thinkpad

[Eben King]

On Wed, 9 Feb 2005, James Knott wrote:

> In the SuSE 9.2 Control Center, there's an item called "IBM Thinkpad
> Laptop", which includes a setting "Run Thinkpad KMilo plugin".  Does
> anyone know what this does?

Isn't MILO the bootloader for a non-x86 architecture, Macintosh maybe?

Ah here (http://www.chrishowells.co.uk/showcomment.php?blog=74):

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| Basically KMilo is a "notifier" for the special keys on laptops (though I 
| guess it wouldn't be totally out of the scope of the program to write a 
| plugin for some of the "multimedia" keyboards which have special keys for 
| volume and so on.
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> Also, using IBM Thinkpad Laptop, requires /dev/nvram permissions to be set
> to 664 or 666, instead of the default 600. However, even though I can set
> this manually, it does not stay through a reboot.  I have tried adding the
> command to boot.local, but it doesn't appear to work there either.  Is
> there any way, to make the permissions stick?

Check /etc/security/console.perms for that file.

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