[ltp] Installing ThinkPadpm modules

Martin Steigerwald linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 22 Jan 2005 09:47:32 +0100


Am Samstag, 22. Januar 2005 03:16 schrieb /dev/rob0:
> On Friday 21 January 2005 14:04, I wrote:
> > Jan 21 13:54:48 mv kernel: thinkpadpm: Power management not active.
> > :-(
> >
> > I think this is a udev issue, but I don't know what to do about it.
> > /dev/thinkpad is a device node (C, 10, 170), and not a directory.
>
> This isn't the problem. Apparently the /dev/thinkpad c 10 170 is the
> only device node needed.

Hello,

on Debian you can tell udev to statically create some device files it 
doesn't create dynamically yet. See that non existant 
file /etc/udev/links.cfg.

> Is anyone else using the thinkpad driver on a 2.6.x kernel? How about
> thinkpadpm?

I am a bit puzzled about ThinkPad driver on 2.6.x kernels and IBM ACPI? 
Does it make sense to use both?

Regards,
-- 
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de