[ltp] lenovo to provide linux support?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 07 Aug 2007, Richard Neill wrote:
> I'd be very interested to know what else thinkpad-acpi could be capable of 
> - I'm
> already impressed by how well it works. Being able to scriptably flash the 
> thinklight is neat :-)

It could provide notifications for the OS to do all that the ThinkVantage
suite does. E.g give you instructions on how to proceed after you touch the
undock lever, or tell userspace that the notebook woke up because a bay
eject was triggered.   I know those exist, but I don't know exactly what
they are.

There is a bunch of other notifications that I have no idea what they could
mean.

There are bits in the WWAN and bluetooth enable/disable stuff that have
unknown purposes.

There are numerous errors in the DSDTs which we could help fix or improve...

etc.

>  - after a suspend-to-disk, sound doesn't work (the mixer works, module can 

Alsa problem.

>  - I get random (every couple of weeks) hard locks, which require the 
> power-switch to reboot (not even SysRQ, or flashing keyboard LEDs). They 

Make sure you don't have the NMI watchdog enabled.  Might be a video driver
issue indeed.

>  - toggling the wireless kill switch too many times will result in an 
> unusable wireless device, again requiring a reboot. (unloading/reloading 
> the kernel module doesn't fix it).

Too many times in a row?  or too fast?   The hung wireless device happens
even with thinkpad-acpi AND whatever modules that take care of that
device *UNLOADED*?

> O/T: Firefox is a horrific memory hog (this has influenced my decision to 
> get a 64-bit desktop machine, so that FF there can address > 4GB (yes, 
> really!) of swap)

Yuck.  There are better ways to deal with that, such as fixing firefox.

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  Henrique Holschuh