[ltp] Re: problem with tpb on Debian Lenny...

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Frédéric BOITEUX wrote:
> Le jeu 25 sep 2008 16:41:16 CEST, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> <hmh@hmh.eng.br> a écrit :
> > Thinklight, volume and brightness do not export events by default on IBM
> > thinkpads, since the firmware acts on them.
> > 
> > Please read the thinkpad-acpi manual, I wrote it for a reason... even if it
> > is not the lightest or best reading out there, it should explain it all.
> > 
> > It is on Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt in your 2.6.25+ kernel
> > tree, or directly in Documentation/ on older kernels.  I also posted a very
> > recent version of it to this list not too much time ago.
> 
>   I thought it was a problem in my setup, not the default behaviour of
> the thinkpad_acpi... I'll read [again] the documentation of
> Thinkpad_acpi module, in the version shipped with Debian's Linux kernel.

It could still be your setup.  Some Debian packages insist into messing with
thinkpad-acpi's defaults, which are really intended to be mucked around only
by explicit action of the local admin, and never by distros [unless it is to
mimic a default change in later versions of the driver or something like
that].

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  Henrique Holschuh