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

Marc MERLIN linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Tue, 30 Oct 2007 15:23:22 -0700


On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:21:10PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> 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.

Will try that out, thanks for the pointers

Marc
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