[ltp] IBM to sell its PC business

[Brian D. Ropers-Huilman]

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Matt Graham said the following on 2004-12-03 14:05:
| On Friday 03 December 2004 14:56, after a long battle with technology,
| Meike Reichle wrote:
|
|>>You can even turn the tp light on and off from the console thats a
|>>very cool feature ;).
|>
|>You can? How's that work?
|
|
| Hardware: Fn-PgUp, at least on an A22p.
| Software: dunno.

ibis root # ls -l /proc/acpi/ibm/light
- -rw-r--r--  1 root root 0 Dec  3 15:46 /proc/acpi/ibm/light
ibis root # cat /proc/acpi/ibm/light
status:         off
commands:       on, off
ibis root # echo on > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
ibis root # cat /proc/acpi/ibm/light
status:         on
commands:       on, off
ibis root # echo off > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
ibis root # qpkg -v -I acpi
sys-apps/acpid-1.0.2-r2 *
sys-apps/acpi-0.06-r5 *
app-laptop/ibm-acpi-0.7 *
ibis root #


And, yes, the light really did turn on and off.

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