[ltp] ibm-acpi-0.11

[Ingo van Lil]

On 17 Mar 2005, James Knott wrote:

> As I recall, at least in SuSE, (many) Fn keys, volume and ThinkLight 
> already work.  Not sure about brightness, but I believe it works too. 
> What I'd like to see, is external monitor switching.  Currently, I have 
> to switch modes, prior to starting Linux.

Things like tuning volume, brightness and turning on/off the ThinkLight
with the associated hotkeys work without any software support on my R51;
those things must be sort of hard-wired. The point about ibm-acpi is
that you can query and control all these things by software using the
/proc/acpi/ibm interface (well, currently only the ThinkLight for me).
And one purpose of tpb is displaying a fancy on-screen-display whenever
the volume, brightness, ThinkLight or display status is changed.

        Cheers,
            Ingo