[ltp] Debian Sarge Installation on Thinkpad T41

[Andreas Loeffler]

On Mon, 2005-08-15 at 22:09 -0600, Alejandro Bonilla Beeche wrote:
> 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.
indeed that's rather smart.
btw. i think under windows you have to configure aps yourself as
well ... who else should determine how you use you laptop ?

>  
> > 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.

the project is here:
http://hdaps.sourceforge.net/


> Cheers,
>  .Alejandro