[ltp] thinklight notification

Peter Frühberger linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:25:53 +0200


Am Montag, 21. August 2006 11:20 schrieb Andy Street:
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 08:51 +0200, Andre Timmermannn wrote:
> > I have checked this file in /proc and on my thinkpad it is
> > world-writable. Please check the situation on your TP, too.
>
> I've just checked on my Ubuntu 6.06 Dapper installation and root is the
> only user with write permissions (644).
>
> Regards,
>
> Andy

Hi Andy

I had the same problem in ubuntu
a workaround is:

put at the end of /etc/init.d/bootmisc.sh
just before the : exit 0
after the esac

chown root:video /dev/nvram


and add nvram to /etc/modules

now you should be able to use kmilo for your thinkpad

LG
Peter
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