[ltp] OSD for Thinkpad Buttons?

[John]

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On (04/04/06 14:16), Daniel Baule wrote:
> To: linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
> From: Daniel Baule <baule@upb.de>
> Subject: [ltp] OSD for Thinkpad Buttons?
> Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2006 14:16:47 +0000
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> does anyone know a program similar to tpb?
> I would like to have an OSD for my Thinkpad Buttons but can=B4t get tpb t=
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> under KDE and Gentoo, because i do not have access to /dev/nvram. At the=
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> moment i have to change permissions for the nvram manually after each Reb=
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> I then can start tpb manually and it works till the next boot.

I'm running Debian Sid, so your MMV with Gentoo. But all I had to do,
just once, was follow the directions in /usr/share/doc/tpb/README:
- enable nvram in your kernel (section character devices), either as module
  or compiled into the kernel

So I compiled it into the kernel:
me@~$ cat /boot/config-2.6.15-xxxx | grep -Ein nvram
1131:CONFIG_NVRAM=3Dy

- make sure that the device /dev/nvram exists, else create it with
  'mknod /dev/nvram c 10 144'

Since then, I've had:

me@~$ ls -l /dev/nvram
crw-rw---- 1 root nvram 10, 144 2006-04-04 07:43 /dev/nvram

HTH

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