[ltp] thinkpad-acpi release 0.18-20071203 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 09:16:12PM +0000, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> I have released version 0.18-20071013 of thinkpad-acpi through the
> sourceforge.net release system.
> 
> Patches are available for 2.6.20, 2.6.21, 2.6.22, 2.6.23 and 2.6.24-rc at:
> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=117042&package_id=230205
> 
> git users can get it directly from tags in:
> git://repo.or.cz/linux-2.6/linux-acpi-2.6/ibm-acpi-2.6.git
> 
> 
> This release should make things better for *61 owners, but do note that you
> need to use either the standard ACPI video module for backlight control (in
> which case you might need a *very* up-to-date video.c), or you need to tell
> thinkpad-acpi that you want its legacy interface.  Read the docs.


What is precisely "*very* up-to-date"? I'm currently running 2.6.24-rc4 witch
thinkpad-acpi 0.18-20071013. video.c is loaded and thinkpad-acpi runs without
argument. When I first boot, everything seems to work fine. If I put the t61
to sleep, then resume, I can see two things:

  - the backlight is off (i boot using acpi_sleep=s3bios and put to sleep with
	hibernate-ram -f). I can switch to vt1 then back to vt7 and now the
	backlight is on.
  - the brightness up and brightness down keys have some delay (wich they
	don't have just after the boot). I catch the events in acpid and use
	xbacklight to set the brightness, but I can see that it's the acpi event
	wich have a delay.

> Please test, I'd like to send these changes upstream for 2.6.25 soon.

Except this, it works fine, but I didn't find that much changes since the
latest release (2.6.23-rc3 and thinkpad-acpi 0.18-20071112), except that the
keys are correctly mapped in thinkpad-acpi.

As a side note, is there a way to tell video.c, or hal, or gnome-power-manager
(or another tool to manage sleep and backlight) that it should use
/sys/class/backlight/acpi_video1 and not acpi_video0?

Cheers,
-- 
Yves-Alexis