[ltp] Enabling ThinkPad buttons R31 & SUSE 10.1

[Mendel Cooper]

On Sun, 16 Jul 2006, James Knott wrote:

> I'm trying to enable ThinkPad buttons etc., in SUSE 10.1, on an R31.
> While the buttons appear to work, though not properly, there is still a
> configuration issue with /dev/nvram.  According to "Personal Settings"
> "IBM ThinkPad Laptop, /dev/nvram permissions are supposed to be set to
> 666.  However, I cannot get that value to stick.

I had a similar problem with an A31 running FC5. Fixed it by adding
   chmod 666 /dev/nvram
to the tail end of /etc/rc.d/rc.local.