[ltp] lenovo to provide linux support?

Frank Fiene linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 7 Aug 2007 18:20:44 +0200


On Dienstag, 7. August 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Richard Neill wrote:
> > I'd be very interested to know what else thinkpad-acpi could be
> > capable of - I'm
> > already impressed by how well it works. Being able to scriptably
> > flash the thinklight is neat :-)
>
> It could provide notifications for the OS to do all that the
> ThinkVantage suite does. E.g give you instructions on how to proceed
> after you touch the undock lever, or tell userspace that the notebook
> woke up because a bay eject was triggered.   I know those exist, but
> I don't know exactly what they are.

Yes, thinkpad-acpi is great. Thanks for that!

Is there any documentation how to change from thinkpad-keys to this 
input device?

BTW, powertop does not like thinkpad-acpi, too many wakups!
Are you working on this?

Regards
Frank
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