[ltp] ibm-acpi-0.11

James Knott linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 17 Mar 2005 19:51:23 -0500


Daniel Stodden wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-03-17 at 03:22 -0800, Borislav Deianov wrote:
> 
> 
>>        - Fn key combinations
>>        - ThinkLight on and off
> 
> 
>>        - experimental brightness control
>>        - experimental volume control
> 
> 
> woah. congratulations.
> 
> this probably means this is the point one could start thinking about
> reimplementing a tpb-style application based on a WAY saner interface
> than the nvram polling tpb is built upon.
> 
> right? or am i missing anything?
> 
>

As I recall, at least in SuSE, (many) Fn keys, volume and ThinkLight 
already work.  Not sure about brightness, but I believe it works too. 
What I'd like to see, is external monitor switching.  Currently, I have 
to switch modes, prior to starting Linux.