[ltp] SuSE 9.2 - Thinkpad
James Knott
linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 10 Feb 2005 12:31:26 -0500
JP Renaud wrote:
>>Does anyone know what this does? There's no info on this, in the help
>>center. Also, using IBM Thinkpad Laptop, requires /dev/nvram
>>permissions to be set to 664 or 666, instead of the default 600.
>>However, even though I can set this manually, it does not stay through a
>>reboot. I have tried adding the command to boot.local, but it doesn't
>>appear to work there either. Is there any way, to make the permissions
>>stick?
>
>
> It allows you to have feedback from KDE when using the Thinkpad buttons
> (volume, luminosity, light) and also it allows you to run given programs when
> you hit a button, like the blue Access BM button. It is like tpb but specific
> to the KDE environment (and much "prettier" IMHO).
>
> Info + screenshot at:
> http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=9893
>
> As for the permissions /dev/nvram, if you use udev, you can change them in
> in /etc/udev/permissions.d either modify the existing 50-udev.permissions or
> create a new file which contain:
>
> misc/nvram:root:root:0664
That gets the permissions to stay.
tnx
Now to find out why kmilo doesn't seem to run. The kdeutils package is
install.