[ltp] R40e & Power

[Chris Street]

Oh yes - forgot about that...

I recompiled the kernel with the thermal module not included. Wonder what w=
ould happen if you were to just rename/delete the thermal module under /lib=
/modules?
I also changed a line near the top of /etc/rc.d/init.d/acpi (Mandrake - may=
 not be the same for you) that loaded the thermal module, but I think this =
gets used later - after you have already crashed...
There may be a simpler way - anybody?

Not sure of a way around the buttons not working - the software mixer still=
 works, so I use that. As for screen brightness - never use it.

If anybody has got it all working on an R40e, I would love to know. May hav=
e a play again one day if I get the time...

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On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 12:08, Konstantin Geister wrote:
> Hi again,
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> My system is not supporting APM.
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> I forgot to say one thing:
> When I don't turn off ACPI the computer won't boot!
> I used to run SUSE Linux on the TP before FC2 and I found out that the
> ACPI-Modules fan and thermal probally have some problems with my TP Model.
> May I turn them off?
> By the way I don't want to loose volume & brightness buttons fuctionality!
> Thankx for help.
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> > Quite true about ACPI being young, unstable etc, but I am pretty sure t=
he
> > R40e does not support APM so we are kind of stuck....
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> > Like I said - I haven't tried suspend, slowing the CPU etc, and ACPI se=
ems
> > to stop the volume & brightness buttons working, but the battery monitor
> > does work 'out of the box' under ACPI with Mandrake - you just need to
> > decide which you want (or be prepared to mess around a lot!).
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> > Chris
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> > On Thursday 03 Jun 2004 10:46, Didrik Pinte wrote:
> > > Le jeu 03/06/2004 =E0 11:27, Chris Street a =E9crit :
> > > > > On a R50, with kernel 2.6.5 (Debian/Sid), running apmd and with
> > > > > acpi=3Doff, i've a battery monitor running perfectly well.
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> > > > Interesting - does the R50 use APM, or are you using some other
> > software?
> > > > Haven't owned any other thinkpad, but it seems that what works for =
one
> > model will not work at all on another - they are very individual...
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> > > IBM Thinkpad BIOS are excellent with power management using APM. ACPI=
 is
> > > still a young powermanagement system and it is not perfectly stable.
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> > > Using apm, you'll have suspend-to-disk and suspend-to-ram working out=
 of
> > > the box on nearly any thinkpads.
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> > > You may try to have ACPI working on all those laptops, but you will f=
ace
> > > lots of litlle problems : DSDT tables, no suspend using bios (so you
> > > have to use software suspend like swsusp, etc.)...
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> > > The only disadvantage of APM is that it consumes a little bit more
> > > batteries and that some information aren't as clear as using acpi.
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> > > Didrik
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> > Chris Street
> > chris@showerail.com
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> > The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> > http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-thinkpad
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Chris Street
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