[ltp] Re: more /dev/thinkpad

[linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org]

On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Tom Adelstein wrote:

> 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%.

Um - I explained the Fedora issue in a couple of posts yesterday
or so.  It's not a big deal to get both utils going in 2.6.12.2, or
any kernel, and should hopefully be in the repositories by default
soon, once naming conventions have been sorted out by the devs.