[ltp] Re: Trying to eject ultrabay slim locks computer. (Jiang Qian)

Barny Sanchez linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 21 Sep 2006 11:16:37 -0400


That's the URL where I got the information on how to hot-swap the ultrabay
but when I followed it, that's what's happening... " echo eject
> > /proc/acpi/ibm/bay)" does power off the ultrabay (as I can tell by the
LED going off immediately), but about a second later my entire computer
freezes...  there is no mouse activity, or anything, a total freeze.

Anyways, if anyone has had real experiences with this and want to share,
please do so.

Thanks,

Barny Sanchez

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Today's Topics:

   1. Max X21 ram? (Damien Challet)
   2. Re: Max X21 ram? (Damien Challet)
   3. X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update (Atul Chitnis)
   4. Re: X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update (Atul Chitnis)
   5. Re: X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update (Richard Neill)
   6. Wireless switch on (newer?) thinkpads (e.g. z61p) (Johannes Boy)
   7. Re: Wireless switch on (newer?) thinkpads (e.g. z61p) (Richard Neill)
   8. Re: Wireless switch on (newer?) thinkpads (e.g. z61p) (Andrew Barr)
   9. Re: X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update (Atul Chitnis)
  10. Re: X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update (Atul Chitnis)
  11. Re: X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update (Richard Neill)
  12. Re: X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update (Andrew Barr)
  13. Re: X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update (Atul Chitnis)
  14. Re: X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update (Florian Reitmeir)
  15. Re: How to improve battery life on Thinkpad X60s (John Fremlin)
  16. Spam problem. Who is the moderator of the list? (Lior David)
  17. [ann] 8.29.6 released! (Matthias Redlich)
  18. Re: Spam problem. Who is the moderator of the list? (Dominik
Riebeling)
  19. Re: Spam problem. Who is the moderator of the list? (Brian Smith)
  20. Re: How to improve battery life on Thinkpad X60s (Marius Gedminas)
  21. Re: Wireless switch on (newer?) thinkpads (e.g. z61p) (Michael
Olbrich)
  22. Trying to eject ultrabay slim locks computer. (Barny Sanchez)
  23. Re: Trying to eject ultrabay slim locks computer. (Jiang Qian)
  24. Linux on T43p: Predesktop Area, Access IBM button and RnR (Pino
Giaquinto)
  25. Re: Linux on T43p: Predesktop Area, Access IBM button and RnR
(Grasshopper)

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Message: 1
From: Damien Challet <dchallet@onetel.com>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:01:47 +0100
Subject: [ltp] Max X21 ram?
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

Dear All,

I am stuck with 312Mb on my X21, which is the official limit. Does anyone
know 
if it is possible to use a stick with more than 256Mb, and if yes, where to 
find one?

Many thanks

Damien



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Message: 2
From: Damien Challet <dchallet@onetel.com>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] Max X21 ram?
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 11:05:34 +0100
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

On Wednesday 20 September 2006 11:01, Damien Challet wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> I am stuck with 312Mb on my X21, 

I meant 320Mb, of course


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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:00:48 +0530 (IST)
From: Atul Chitnis <mail@atulchitnis.net>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: [ltp] X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

I just did a monster yum update on the machine, with almost 1.2 GB of 
packages getting updated/replaced.

Before I started, I was listening to music no problems at all.

After the update, no more sound, kde sound server comes up saying it 
cannot initialise the sound driver.

FC5 on a X60s. Current kernel version 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp. Going back to 
previous kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp doesnt help either.

Help!

Atul

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Message: 4
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:02:40 +0530 (IST)
From: Atul Chitnis <mail@atulchitnis.net>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Atul Chitnis wrote:

> FC5 on a X60s. Current kernel version 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp. Going back to 
> previous kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp doesnt help either.

and sound card is snd-hda-intel

Atul

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Message: 5
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:51:14 +0100
From: Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

Do you have /dev/dsp?
If so,
  cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp
  should make a noise. Then you need to fix KDE.
Else
  do you have the right sound module loaded?

Richard



Atul Chitnis wrote:
> I just did a monster yum update on the machine, with almost 1.2 GB of 
> packages getting updated/replaced.
> 
> Before I started, I was listening to music no problems at all.
> 
> After the update, no more sound, kde sound server comes up saying it 
> cannot initialise the sound driver.
> 
> FC5 on a X60s. Current kernel version 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp. Going back 
> to previous kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp doesnt help either.
> 
> Help!
> 
> Atul
> 

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Message: 6
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:08:16 +0200
From: "Johannes Boy" <teilzeitstudent@googlemail.com>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: [ltp] Wireless switch on (newer?) thinkpads (e.g. z61p)
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

Greetings,
I'm playing around with my new z61p right now and I was wondering how
to get this wireless switch to work (I guess it turns off the wireless
radio(s) on a hardware basis)
What I found out so far is:
ibm_acpi sends an event for it: received event "ibm/hotkey HKEY
00000080 00007000"
(I entered the event in the "special key" section of the wiki).
So it would be easy to include an acpi action script to start/stop
daemons & services using this event key, however:
The same event is sent on turning it on and when turning it off, so
telling which way it was turned isn't possible by just looking at the
event.
Also, I couldnt find any hardware-based information about this script in
- /proc/acpi/*
- lshal
- lspci

Sooo... does anyone have any information about how to get the status
of this switch?

Teilzeitstudent

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Message: 7
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:13:13 +0100
From: Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] Wireless switch on (newer?) thinkpads (e.g. z61p)
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org



Johannes Boy wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm playing around with my new z61p right now and I was wondering how
> to get this wireless switch to work (I guess it turns off the wireless
> radio(s) on a hardware basis)
> What I found out so far is:
> ibm_acpi sends an event for it: received event "ibm/hotkey HKEY
> 00000080 00007000"
> (I entered the event in the "special key" section of the wiki).
> So it would be easy to include an acpi action script to start/stop
> daemons & services using this event key, however:
> The same event is sent on turning it on and when turning it off, so
> telling which way it was turned isn't possible by just looking at the
> event.
> Also, I couldnt find any hardware-based information about this script in
> - /proc/acpi/*
> - lshal
> - lspci
> 
> Sooo... does anyone have any information about how to get the status
> of this switch?

Does dmesg say anything helpful?

> 
> Teilzeitstudent

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Message: 8
Subject: Re: [ltp] Wireless switch on (newer?) thinkpads (e.g. z61p)
From: Andrew Barr <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:16:46 -0400
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 19:08 +0200, Johannes Boy wrote:
> Greetings,
> I'm playing around with my new z61p right now and I was wondering how
> to get this wireless switch to work (I guess it turns off the wireless
> radio(s) on a hardware basis)
> What I found out so far is:
> ibm_acpi sends an event for it: received event "ibm/hotkey HKEY
> 00000080 00007000"
> (I entered the event in the "special key" section of the wiki).
> So it would be easy to include an acpi action script to start/stop
> daemons & services using this event key, however:
> The same event is sent on turning it on and when turning it off, so
> telling which way it was turned isn't possible by just looking at the
> event.
> Also, I couldnt find any hardware-based information about this script in
> - /proc/acpi/*
> - lshal
> - lspci
> 
> Sooo... does anyone have any information about how to get the status
> of this switch?

I think the new Thinkpads have ipw3945 cards. The older ipw* cards had a
file called '/sys/class/net/eth(X)/device/rf_kill' that read out the
status of the kill switch and writing to it affected that status. So
look for something like that.

HTH,
Andrew

> Teilzeitstudent

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Message: 9
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:14:23 +0530 (IST)
From: Atul Chitnis <mail@atulchitnis.net>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Richard Neill wrote:

> Do you have /dev/dsp?

Yep

> If so,
> cat /dev/random > /dev/dsp
> should make a noise. Then you need to fix KDE.

No noise :(

> Else
> do you have the right sound module loaded?

I suspect so, since it is the same module (snd-hda-intel) that was being 
used *before* the yum update, and that is still the module that is being 
loaded.

Here's the weird one though - I can use xmms, change the prefs to use 
alsa, then switch default device to HDA Intel: AD198x Analog (hw:0,0) and 
xmms plays.

But if I try to play a WAV file from the command line use sox' "play" 
(even as root):

# play question.wav
ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:1632:(snd_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf) Unknown field 
ipc_sem
sox: Failed writing default: cannot open audio device

# ls -al /dev/dsp
crw------- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 20 19:15 /dev/dsp

Running snd-config-soundcard lets me hear the sample sound, but kde's 
sound system won't play ball with it (it did before the yum update).

Thanks for any inputs!

Atul

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Message: 10
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:22:57 +0530 (IST)
From: Atul Chitnis <mail@atulchitnis.net>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

OK, more - I just fired up gaim from the commandline, and saw this:

[achitnis@vader] ~$ ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot 
find card '0'
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver 
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat 
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer 
returned error: No such device
ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default

This seems to be some alsa card confusion.

modprobe.conf says:

alias scsi_hostadapter ahci
alias eth1 ipw3945
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
options snd-card-0 index=0
options snd-hda-intel index=0
remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; }; 
/sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
alias eth0 e1000


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Bangalore, India | http://atulchitnis.net
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Message: 11
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:49:02 +0100
From: Richard Neill <rn214@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org



Atul Chitnis wrote:

> I suspect so, since it is the same module (snd-hda-intel) that was being 
> used *before* the yum update, and that is still the module that is being 
> loaded.
> 
> Here's the weird one though - I can use xmms, change the prefs to use 
> alsa, then switch default device to HDA Intel: AD198x Analog (hw:0,0) 
> and xmms plays.

At a guess, have you got the OSS compat. modules loaded? These are the
snd_XXX_oss modules, eg snd_pcm_oss, snd_mixer_oss etc.


> 
> But if I try to play a WAV file from the command line use sox' "play" 
> (even as root):
> 
> # play question.wav
> ALSA lib pcm_direct.c:1632:(snd_pcm_direct_parse_open_conf) Unknown 
> field ipc_sem
> sox: Failed writing default: cannot open audio device
> 

That does look bug-like to me.

> # ls -al /dev/dsp
> crw------- 1 root root 14, 3 Sep 20 19:15 /dev/dsp
> 
> Running snd-config-soundcard lets me hear the sample sound, but kde's 
> sound system won't play ball with it (it did before the yum update).
> 

Slightly OT:

Now that Alsa has dmix (and FC5 probably enables it by default), Arts 
can be completely ignored - and good riddance to it!  We no longer need 
Arts to multiplex sound applications, and it is complete overkill for 
system beeps!

See here for how I solved it:
http://www.ruo3.org/~rjn/a22p-mdk11-0.php#sound
  -> [2] Arts



> Thanks for any inputs!
> 
> Atul

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Message: 12
Subject: Re: [ltp] X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update
From: Andrew Barr <andrew.james.barr@gmail.com>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:16:40 -0400
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 23:22 +0530, Atul Chitnis wrote:
> OK, more - I just fired up gaim from the commandline, and saw this:
> 
> [achitnis@vader] ~$ ALSA lib confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot 
> find card '0'
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_card_driver 
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:391:(snd_func_concat) error evaluating strings
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_concat 
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib confmisc.c:1070:(snd_func_refer) error evaluating name
> ALSA lib conf.c:3479:(_snd_config_evaluate) function snd_func_refer 
> returned error: No such device
> ALSA lib conf.c:3947:(snd_config_expand) Evaluate error: No such device
> ALSA lib pcm.c:2143:(snd_pcm_open_noupdate) Unknown PCM default
> 
> This seems to be some alsa card confusion.
> 
> modprobe.conf says:
> 
> alias scsi_hostadapter ahci
> alias eth1 ipw3945
> alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
> options snd-card-0 index=0
> options snd-hda-intel index=0
> remove snd-hda-intel { /usr/sbin/alsactl store 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };

> /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
> alias eth0 e1000

If I were you, I'd try an alsa-driver -rc release from
www.alsa-project.org. I have an Intel HD Audio codec on my new Core 2
Duo motherboard, and it did not work properly until I used the drivers
available from that site instead of the in-kernel drivers.

HTH,
Andrew Barr

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Message: 13
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:03:03 +0530 (IST)
From: Atul Chitnis <mail@atulchitnis.net>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

OK, call off the firebrigade.

It was my fault.

I hadn't done an update in ages, and therefore had left the yum update 
process running overnight and unattended.

I didn't notice that ATrpms was turned on by default, and that installed 
ATrpms' alsa-lib.

I knocked them off, installed the FC5 updates alsa-lib packages, and Elvis 
is back in the building.

Will do some more testing, but I think its fixed.

Thanks, all!

Atul

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Message: 14
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:27:46 +0200
From: Florian Reitmeir <thinkpad@reitmeir.org>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] X60s: Sound gone after FC5 yum update
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

On Mit, 20 Sep 2006, Atul Chitnis wrote:

> I just did a monster yum update on the machine, with almost 1.2 GB of 
> packages getting updated/replaced.
> 
> Before I started, I was listening to music no problems at all.
> 
> After the update, no more sound, kde sound server comes up saying it 
> cannot initialise the sound driver.
> 
> FC5 on a X60s. Current kernel version 2.6.17-1.2187_FC5smp. Going back to 
> previous kernel 2.6.17-1.2174_FC5smp doesnt help either.

make sure the modem is activated in the bios.. 

-- 
Florian Reitmeir

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Message: 15
To: Martin Aumueller <aumuell@reserv.at>
Cc: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] How to improve battery life on Thinkpad X60s
From: John Fremlin <not@just.any.name>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:20:05 +0000
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

Martin Aumueller <aumuell@reserv.at> writes:

> See below what Florian Reitmair wrote on the matter a couple of days ago
(6. 
> Sep) on this mailing list. Search the archive (e.g. at 
> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-thinkpad&r=1&w=2) for viewing the
whole 
> thread.

Thanks for the link. However, as all the devices he was tuning to
lower the power of were disabled in my configuration it does not help
-- except perhaps for CPU undervolting, but I doubt that MS Windows
does this?

I am curious to discover which component it is that MS Windows can
power down and Linux cannot. It feels like whatever is under the "IBM"
logo on the right hand side of the fingerprint reader.

Any suggestions?

[...]

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Message: 16
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 23:47:47 +0200
From: "Lior David" <liorda@gmail.com>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: [ltp] Spam problem. Who is the moderator of the list?
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

All email addresses in the list are targets of spam. when quoting
someone, his/her address appears as plain text in the archives! Run
Yahoo search on your mail and find out for yourselves.

Who is in charge?

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Message: 17
From: Matthias Redlich <matthias.redlich@gmx.de>
To: Linux Thinkpad <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:33:06 +0200
Subject: [ltp] [ann] 8.29.6 released!
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

Hi list,

ATI has just released a new version of the fglrx driver with support for
kernel 2.6.18.

Regards,
Matthias


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Message: 18
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:50:01 +0200
From: "Dominik Riebeling" <dominik.riebeling@gmail.com>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] Spam problem. Who is the moderator of the list?
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

On 9/19/06, Lior David <liorda@gmail.com> wrote:
> All email addresses in the list are targets of spam. when quoting
> someone, his/her address appears as plain text in the archives! Run
> Yahoo search on your mail and find out for yourselves.

Is spam really a problem that should get adressed by obfuscating mail
addresses? How long will it take until address spiders get smart
enough? (I got spam to mail addresses I never published or used for
sending mail anywhere, so I prefer local spam filters as they are more
effective IMO)

> Who is in charge?

Mailman is really nice. Looking at the headers, I'd say this address
would be a good starting point:

List-Help: <mailto:linux-thinkpad-request@linux-thinkpad.org?subject=help>

 - Dominik

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Message: 19
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 14:55:00 -0500
From: "Brian Smith" <brianlsmith@gmail.com>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] Spam problem. Who is the moderator of the list?
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

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On 9/19/06, Lior David <XXXXXXXXXX@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> All email addresses in the list are targets of spam. when quoting
> someone, his/her address appears as plain text in the archives! Run
> Yahoo search on your mail and find out for yourselves.
>
> Who is in charge?


I am surprised that you care so strongly given that you have an
@gmail.comaddress. I post my @
gmail.com address all over the internet and I still barely receive any spam.


Anyway, I prefer to see the real email address in the archives because it
allows me to contact people directly if I want.

Regards,
Brian

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top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">XXXXXXXXXX@gmail.com
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All email addresses in the list are targets of spam. when
quoting<br>someone, his/her address appears as plain text in the archives!
Run<br>Yahoo search on your mail and find out for yourselves.<br><br>Who is
in charge?</blockquote>

<div><br>I am surprised that you care so strongly given that you have an @<a
href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return
top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">gmail.com</a> address. I post my @<a
href="http://gmail.com" target="_blank" onclick="return
top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
gmail.com</a> address all over the internet and I still barely receive any
spam. 
<br><br>Anyway, I prefer to see the real email address in the archives
because it allows me to contact people directly if I
want.<br><br>Regards,<br>Brian<br></div></div>


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Message: 20
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 23:10:50 +0300
From: Marius Gedminas <mgedmin@b4net.lt>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] How to improve battery life on Thinkpad X60s
Organization: disorganised
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

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On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 17:20:05 +0000 John Fremlin <not@just.any.name> wrote:
> I am curious to discover which component it is that MS Windows can
> power down and Linux cannot. It feels like whatever is under the "IBM"
> logo on the right hand side of the fingerprint reader.

Isn't that the the hard disk?

Do you use laptop-mode?
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Marius Gedminas
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Message: 21
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 22:25:51 +0200
From: Michael Olbrich <michael.olbrich@gmx.net>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] Wireless switch on (newer?) thinkpads (e.g. z61p)
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org


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On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 01:16:46PM -0400, Andrew Barr wrote:
> I think the new Thinkpads have ipw3945 cards. The older ipw* cards had a
> file called '/sys/class/net/eth(X)/device/rf_kill' that read out the
> status of the kill switch and writing to it affected that status. So
> look for something like that.

That file exists for ipw3945 cards too (Z61m here). However the whole
device only exists if the switch was on at least once after the module
was loaded. I don't know when exactly the acpi event occurs, It is
possible that you need to wait a bit for the files in
/sys/class/net/eth(X)/ to show up.

michael


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Message: 22
From: Barny Sanchez <barnys@issecurity.net>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Organization: INFORMATION SYSTEMS SECURITY
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:26:14 -0400
Subject: [ltp] Trying to eject ultrabay slim locks computer.
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

Hello everyone, 

I am trying to eject my ultrabay by typing echo eject
> /proc/acpi/ibm/bay)and I see the power light of my ultrabay go off,
but the entire computer locks up.  I have no other choice than to
manually power it down and back up again.

I have a Thinkpad T42 running Fedora Core 6, kernel 2.6.17-1.2647.fc6.
Right now the device I have in my ultrabay is de CDRW+DVD combo, and I
want to be able to pop this one out to insert another hard drive that I
have in a bay, or viceversa. 

Any ideas, points, anything will be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

Barny


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Message: 23
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 21:30:42 -0400
From: Jiang Qian <qian2@fas.harvard.edu>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Subject: Re: [ltp] Trying to eject ultrabay slim locks computer.
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 05:26:14PM -0400, Barny Sanchez wrote:
> Hello everyone, 
> 
> I am trying to eject my ultrabay by typing echo eject
> > /proc/acpi/ibm/bay)and I see the power light of my ultrabay go off,
> but the entire computer locks up.  I have no other choice than to
> manually power it down and back up again.
> 
> I have a Thinkpad T42 running Fedora Core 6, kernel 2.6.17-1.2647.fc6.
> Right now the device I have in my ultrabay is de CDRW+DVD combo, and I
> want to be able to pop this one out to insert another hard drive that I
> have in a bay, or viceversa. 
> 
> Any ideas, points, anything will be greatly appreciated!
> 
> Thanks,
You probably need to check out this page:
http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/How_to_hotswap_UltraBay_devices
Jiang
> 
> Barny
> 
> -- 
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Message: 24
From: "Pino Giaquinto" <pino.giaquinto@aliceposta.it>
To: <linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org>
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 10:27:17 +0200
Subject: [ltp] Linux on T43p: Predesktop Area, Access IBM button and RnR
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

If I press Access IBM button on boot... it starts RnR... but there is'nt any
'Access IBM Predesktop Area' application on my screen!
I think the previous owner of this notebook has destroyed the Predesktop
Area (hidden partition /dev/sda2).
Using linux fdisk (any setting of Predesktop Area in BIOS: Normal, Secure or
Disable) I see same space available and just 1 partition: /dev/sda1 (NTFS).
If he has lost the hidden area/partition... can I install linux and write on

MBR?
Can I use ALL available space on my HD?
If tomorrow I delete linux partitions and re-install XP using a standard XP 
disk... Access IBM button  works again? Starts it RnR?
I need your help...! 


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Message: 25
Subject: Re: [ltp] Linux on T43p: Predesktop Area, Access IBM button and RnR
From: Grasshopper <marigold.6352@gol.com>
To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 18:19:19 +0900
Reply-To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:27 +0200, Pino Giaquinto wrote: 
> If I press Access IBM button on boot... it starts RnR... but there is'nt
any
> 'Access IBM Predesktop Area' application on my screen!

No, you have to go down to security.  Restart your computer, when you
see the IBM logo, hit the Access IBM button, this will bring you into
BIOS.
Page down to security, hit enter, you will see "Password, IBM security
chip, IBM Predesktop area.  Page down to IBM Predesktop area, hit enter.
If like me you don't have the Predesktop, you will see Access IBM.... --
Current setting Disabled.  You will then know for sure that it's
history.

> Can I use ALL available space on my HD?
> 
Yes.  I wanted that extra 4GB that was wasted.

> If tomorrow I delete linux partitions and re-install XP using a standard
XP 
> disk... Access IBM button  works again? Starts it RnR?
> I need your help...! 
> 
That depends.  If you have made the most recent Recovery Cds; , I think so;
someone else can jump in here.  Then go into BIOS and change the
setting to start from disc, and insert the the first Recovery CD.
If you have not, come back to me on it.

HTH.

Grasshopper



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