[ltp] 600E and 2.6.1...

[Marco Gaiarin]

Mandi! Michael Hagemann
  In chel dí si favelave...

>> Yes. modprobe thinkpad load the module.
MH> Does it (i.e. tpctl) work?

sara:~# tpctl --all
information about bios and system:
   system ID:                           68
   country code:                        1
   system BIOS revision:                1.21
   system management BIOS revision:     1.11
   SMAPI BIOS interface revision:       0.92
   video BIOS revision:                 1.15
   slave controller revision:           1.8
info from cmos RAM:
   CMOS RAM has power?:                 Y
[...]

Yes.


[thinkpad module that does not load]
MH> Did you actually generate the device node?

sara:~# ls -l /dev/thinkpad/
total 0
crw-rw----    1 root     root      10, 170 Oct 20 10:13 thinkpad

Yes.


MH> I'm just listening to music on my tp600e.  I indeed use the snd-cs4236
MH> module.

Ok, module load perfectly, i still hear no sound but i think i've not
installed some needed alsa package, i've to do some deeper search.


MH> ps: I don't want to rush you -- but aren't you interested in testing the  
MH>     apm patches? :)  Works well for me, but needs some testing (and
MH>     confirmation) from other thinkpad users.  Please contact me, if
MH>     you're interested...

...if there's no risk to damage my hardware, yes, no problem at all. ;)

Infact i need some apm patches, i can suspend the computer, but the
screen remain lit (closing the lid or doing apm -s, the same).
if i try to standby (apm -S) the screen are shut off but the HD remain
working.

Relevant (i think) row of logs:

[starting apmiser on bootup]
Jan 25 21:27:19 sara apmiser[296]: Automatic power miser 4.7 started (daemon: yes, low: 35%, high: 97%, term: 2.2s, trendiness: 0.5)
Jan 25 21:27:19 sara apmiser[298]: Automatic power miser 4.7 started (daemon: yes, low: 35%, high: 97%, term: 2.2s, trendiness: 0.5)
Jan 25 21:27:20 sara kernel: request_module: failed /sbin/modprobe -- char-major-10-170. error = 256

[loading thinkpad's modules]
Jan 25 21:28:45 sara kernel: thinkpad: I have registered to handle major: 10 minor: 170.
Jan 25 21:29:10 sara apmiser[298]: Signal caught. Restoring default power expenditure modes and exiting.
Jan 25 21:29:10 sara kernel: smapi: 32-bit protected mode SMAPI BIOS found. :-)
Jan 25 21:29:13 sara apmiser[504]: Automatic power miser 4.7 started (daemon: yes, low: 35%, high: 97%, term: 2.2s, trendiness: 0.5)
Jan 25 21:32:09 sara kernel: rtcmosram: I/O ports for RT CMOS RAM not available, but ignoring this.
Jan 25 21:32:13 sara kernel: superio: Super I/O chip (non-virgin) in plug-n-play mode found at port base 0x2e. :-)
Jan 25 21:32:13 sara kernel: thinkpadpm: Found APM BIOS version 1.2 flags 0x03 entry 0xb8:0x0. :-)
Jan 25 21:32:13 sara kernel: thinkpadpm: Power state of device 0x400 could not be got; 0x9999 was returned as the state -- APM error 0x1
Jan 25 21:38:49 sara apmiser[504]: Signal caught. Restoring default power expenditure modes and exiting.


Ah, i've also:

Jan 25 21:40:07 sara kernel: Device 'mwave' does not have a release() function, it is broken and must be fixed.

?!


For the framebuffer... it was my fault, i've understood that in 2.6 the
framebuffer are only the low level framebuffer code, and the console
framebuffer are the console framebuffer. Obiouvsly. ;)

	CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE=y

but, as someone noted here some time ago, does not work. when i boot
the console framebuffer work as expected, but if i go back from X to
console, the screen are garbled, a very big font overlapping itself
make all the screen very unreadable.

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