[ltp] Debian Sarge Installation on Thinkpad T41

[Alejandro Bonilla Beeche]

On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 04:49 +0200, André Wyrwa wrote:
> > > i recently compiled the ibm_hdaps driver for the aps system on my
> > > t41p ... this works, you can read out values from the accelerometer.
> > > i think aps is also in some of the x series thinkpads.
> > 
> > Does it protect anything, or does it just print out values?  I can see
> > this encouraging bad behavior if all it does it print out values. :)
> > 
> > "Let's see how fast this s-o-b will go!  Whoo, hoo!"
> 
> That's a feature, silly. As every good peace of software, it leaves the
> choice to you: It prints out values so that YOU can estimate when it's
> time for YOU to shutdown your computer to protect it. Pretty smart,
> isn't it.
> 
> André.
> 
> PS: Seriously talking, i think it comes with a test app that can power
> down your harddrive, but not sure.
Silly?

How about if you 2 smart asses try to make the driver yourselfs? The
driver is being worked, not many people is interested in this feature,
maybe because they don't have $20000 in data value in the hard drives.

Some folks are working and asking LKML on how to make the HD to *really*
park and make it safe for the users.

If you wish and care about making it work, please take a look at the
software and send as many patches as you want.

Cheers,
.Alejandro