[ltp] ThinkPad SL500 brightness up hotkey not working]

[Dan Maranville]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2008 at 10:50, Thomas Adam <thomas.adam22@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 2008/11/16 Michael Meese <pelennor@online.de>:
> > An additional hint:
> > If I do "sudo modprobe tinkpad_acpi", I get this message:
> >
> > FATAL: Error inserting thinkpad_acpi
> > (/lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/kernel/drivers/misc/thinkpad_acpi.ko): No
> > such device
>
> You have an SL500 -- hard luck.  That's not a strict Thinkpad.  No
> tp-smapi, HDAPS, etc.  It's more like an IDEAPad, IIRC.
>
> -- Thomas Adam

See here:
http://mailman.linux-thinkpad.org/pipermail/linux-thinkpad/2008-October/044992.html

Looks like we will have to stick with the standard(RTX) series of
Thinkpads, hopefully they wont bork up that FW too.


--
Dan Maranville