[ltp] Re: more /dev/thinkpad

[David Tansey]

Tom,

Hmm. I should have thought of that. I have a lot more devel packages
installed than most. 

Here is a list of all the gnome-related dev packages i have installed.
like i said in my last email i have kernel 2.6.10-5

libbonobo2-dev
libbonoboui2-dev
libgconf2-dev
libglade2-dev
libglib2.0-dev
libglade2-dev
libgnome2-dev
libgnomeui2-dev
libgtk2.0-dev

Those are the only relevant ones, I think. the ./autogen.sh script
pointed out whatever ones i was missing. 

I'd like to help with whatever howto you write. I suggest putting it on
ubuntu's wiki. I have a couple on there (HoaryBeagleInstallHowto and
HoaryDVDRippingandEncoding). Makes them much easier for people to find.

Anyway, if you writing something up I'll try to test it to make sure it
works in a couple of different configurations (kernels,etc.)

Keep me updated.

-David

P.S. What happened when you typed sudo modprobe thinkpad ? and does
lsmod show module thinkpad?



> Dave, 
> 
> Thanks again. I did all of the steps you listed. I got the information
> from google searches and from a number of howto's and documents,
> postings on mailings lists, etc. 
> 
> The T21 doesn't work with acpi, so I disabled it and enabled apm. I can
> do apm commands and those work fine. 
> 
> tpctl, tpb etc. work fine from the command line. In fact, it makes my
> Thinkpad work nicely. I can control all the buttons and function keys I
> have tried. I'm tweak everything with some other tools I found for the
> backlight and the hard drive motor later.
> 
> I'm simply attempting to enable the GUI - configure-thinkpad (gnome).
> 
> I got it to build by adding glade and related packages because it needed
> a library libgnomeui 2.0 and even after installing it from source, it
> wasn't in the correct location. Adding glade made configure-thinkpad
> build.
> 
> It's also on the menu and starts up nicely - then gives me a missing
> device. /dev/thinkpad.
> 
> I tried this in fedora and got it to work - but only with the 2.6.9
> kernel. configure-thinkpad gave me the same dumb message when I did the
> upgrades. I read something about the upgrade kernels not working
> correctly.
> 
> If I can figure out this device problem, I'll write up a howto and
> publish it.
> 
> I'm really surprised at the lack of troubleshooting documentation about
> this subject. Plenty of howto's exist, but they are not working 100%.
> 
> 
> 
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