[ltp] Having a screen power off hotkey on newer thinkpads?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:21:10 -0200


On Tue, 30 Oct 2007, Marc MERLIN wrote:
> My new Z61p has a battery icon on F3, and Fn+F3 doesn't seem to generate any
> ACPI event.
> FN+F2 has a lock icon too, but doesn't generate an ACPI event either.

Get a new-enough thinkpad-acpi, and it should indeed generate events.
http://ibm-acpi.sf.net and thinkwiki are your friends.

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