[ltp] Re: more /dev/thinkpad

Tom Adelstein linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 18 Jul 2005 08:42:41 -0500


On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 14:16 +0100, honey@gneek.com wrote:
> Googling quickly, there are definitely references to /dev/thinkpad
> being both a device file (in current thinkpad_source) and a directory
> - so some historical change occurred somewhere.  It may be your
> configure-thinkpad is doing things the old way, and tpctl the new.
> You might want to check versions: /dev/thinkpad etc. as device files
> works fine for me in:
> 
> tpctl-4.17
> configure-thinkpad-0.9
> 
> No expert here - Google will tell you what changed and why.
> 

I think we're on the same page. I just need to troubleshoot this on the
machine on this specific distribution (Ubuntu 5.04).