[ltp] HOWTO - acpid and ibm-acpi on a T42p

[grillot sebastien]

morpheus wrote:
>>>to enable the module after installation.  Also, if you want it to
>>>automatically enable in Fedora all the time, edit /etc/rc.d/rc.local and
>>>add the line above to this file.
>>
>>If you want to enable the Fn-Keys, make sure to also pass "hotkey=enable" 
>>to the ibm_acpi module (either as an option to modprobe or by adding it to 
>>/etc/modprobe.conf
>>
> 
> Yes, you are right...the ibm_acpi README is a bit vague on this, but if
> you want access to specific hotkeys, you can do:
> echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
> echo 0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
> after modprobe ibm_acpi
> 

Sorry but i have question. I just to have to do
>> echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
>> echo 0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
>> after modprobe ibm_acpi

and nothing else for all the time (even after rebooting?) or there is an 
other action to do ?
Thanx a lot

> (where ffff is a bitmask for the keys as described in the README)
> 
> 
>>Instead of touching a file, you can simply query radeontool itself for the 
>>light status. Here is what I use to determine this (derived off a 
>>suggestion made by Konstantin Filtschew <mailoperator@uni.de> in this 
>>list):
> 
> Cool, I didn't know that you could get status by not specifying any
> options.  My method has the disadvantage that if the light comes back on
> by itself, the file isn't deleted so you must press Fn-F3 twice next
> time to turn it off again.  The disadvantage of your method is if
> radeontool doesn't return the proper value (i.e. always returns "on"
> even when it's "off") you can never get it to come back.  Have you found
> the radeontool light status value to always be accurate?  The "appears
> to be" is kind of scary...
> 
> -m
>