[ltp] ibm-acpi-0.4

[Nick Bower]

Forget this sorry - I found acpi scripts in the tarball which have
slightly different event names than I would have expected.

On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 21:26, Nick Bower wrote:
> I've got problems with this on my T42 - it won't capture a FN+F4/F3.  I
> have the latest kernel 2.6.8.1 and ACPI patch, but:
> 
> # modprobe ibm_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff
>  (or echo 0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey)
> # more /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
> state:          enabled
> mask:           0x09dc <==== ???
> commands:       enable, disable, reset, <mask>
> 
> and no effect from FN+F4 or FN+F3.  Shutting the lid works as I have
> ACPI standby, suspend etc setup ready to go for these keys (although the
> fan won't stop).  Could anyone suggest why these keys aren't trapped?
> 
> Thanks!  Nick.
> 
> On Thu, 2004-09-16 at 12:26, Borislav Deianov wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > A long vacation and some turmoil at work kept me away from ibm-acpi
> > for a month, but I'm back at it.
> > 
> > This is the fourth alpha release of my ACPI driver for IBM ThinkPad
> > laptops. The features currently supported are:
> > 
> >         - Fn key combinations
> >         - Bluetooth enable and disable
> >         - video output switching, video expansion control
> >         - ThinkLight on/off
> >         - limited docking and undocking
> >         - UltraBay device eject
> > 
> > So far, it has been tested on several T, X and R series ThinkPads. I
> > appreciate any user reports, either successful or unsuccessful. Please
> > see the included README for more information.
> > 
> > Changes since 0.3:
> > 
> >         - support for video output switching
> >         - video expansion control
> >         - UltraBase device eject
> >         - all commands can be issued as module parameters at insmod time
> >         - the hotkey mask can be in a 0xXXXX format
> >         - dropped the brightness/LCD off feature, didn't work
> >         - updated example acpid configuration scripts
> > 
> > The video output control can be used to avoid the annoying flicker and
> > video corruption when opening the lid on the X40. See the README for
> > details.
> > 
> > The ibm-acpi project now has an official home, thanks to Arno Willig
> > <akw@users.sourceforge.net>:
> > 
> >         http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/
> > 
> > Boris