[ltp] more /dev/thinkpad

[Tom Adelstein]

On 7/17/05, honey@gneek.com <honey@gneek.com> wrote:
> On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Vo^ Danh wrote:
>=20
> > On 7/17/05, Tom Adelstein <tom.adelstein@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 11:10 +0300, David Tansey wrote:
> >>> they're not in the standard kernel. in ubuntu they are in a package
> >>> called thinkpad-source, which you then have to compile. i have no ide=
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> >>> what they'd be in fedora.
> >>>
> >>> look for a package with the world "thinkpad" in it.
> > is there a kernel dedicated for think pad??? I've just ever hear about
> > that. Give me some idea and place to download it, plz.
> >
> > TIA
>=20
> I'd imagine the Extras repositories has plans for a
> kernel-modules-thinkpad package (which includes /dev/thinkpad), as
> they already have tpctl and configure-thinkpad in there for Fedora
> Core 4 - I haven't checked the bugzilla yet.  If it has any
> proprietary parts to it, the Livna repository will have plans -
> either way it will install simply with yum.  I guess it's on the TODO
> list - I can ask around.
>=20
> In the meantime, I'm just playing with the spec file to build an RPM
> for it from Dag Wieers' RPM, which is quite outdated and for kernel
> 2.4. It looks like I have it at least building now, but it needs a
> little tweaking.  If anyone's interested, I'll send back my spec file
> to Dag, and I guess he'll include an updated RPM soon.  Or if you're
> ok for building your own RPM from a spec file (it'll need rebuilding
> for each new kernel) I could send it to anyone, if wanted.
>=20
> It's a bit hacky just now, so I'll try and clean it up.  And make
> sure it actually works :)  But /dev/thinkpad for FC4 doesn't look
> hard to do.
> --

That would be a great service. I would be very grateful. Also, I'm
guessing but the Thinkpad seems to be a very popular choice.