[ltp] Re: ibm-acpi-0.2

[Stephan Holl]

Hello honey@gneek.com, 

On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 13:56:18 +0100 (BST) honey@gneek.com wrote:

> On Sun, 15 Aug 2004, Borislav Deianov wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, Aug 15, 2004 at 02:19:21AM -0600, Dax Kelson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Does it work differently on older ThinkPads? Can I use your driver
> > > without messing up the already working Bluetooth enable/disable?
> > 
> > Yes, you can. When you first load the driver, Fn-F5 will continue to
> > work the same way. If you then enable hotkey events and set the mask
> > to include Fn-F5 (see the README for the full details), Fn-F5 will
> > instead generate an ACPI event. Using acpid, you can set a script to
> > run on this event. You can do whatever you want in the script,
> > including controlling Bluetooth via /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth.
> 
> As a user, I can recommend Boris's ibm-acpi module strongly after
> trying it - it enables me to get back control of the following keys
> in ACPI on my T40:
> 
> Fn-F3,F4,F5,F7,F8,F9,F12
> 
> As Boris said, you can elect for it to control or leave alone each of
> these keys via a clever mask (I leave Fn-F5 for bluetooth untouched)
> - but it means I can suddenly tie ACPI handlers like suspend-to-disk
> to Fn-F12 while having Fn-F4 suspend-to-ram - just like in APM.
> Leaves me keys like Fn-F9 to toggle my wireless up and down.
> 
> So highly recommended from a T40/ACPI user!

I second that! thanks Boris for the cool and useful functions.


I would like to see this module in debian to build it via make-kpkg... 

Cheers
	Stephan


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