[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.