[ltp] lenovo-sl-laptop on Fedora 12

[Alexandre Rostovtsev]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 3:00 AM, Armel KERMORVANT
<armel.kermorvant@orange.fr> wrote:
> Good Morning,
>
> I have a Lenovo SL300 and I decide to install Fedora 12.
> I check before the installation if all components work fine, potentialy yes except the video brighness and volume keys on KDE.
> Do you have an idea on wich repository where I found the lenovo-sl-laptop.rpm for fedora ?
> I check and I didn't fine it.
>
> The second solution, I compile by my self the driver but on my first test, please find below my commands :
>
> 1- Extract the file (file come from : http://github.com/tetromino/lenovo-sl-laptop) in my personal directory
> 2- make (some new files are created)
> 3- cp lenovo-sl-laptop.ko /lib/modules/2.6.31-xxxxxx.fc12.i686.PAE/kernel/drivers/acpi/ (Some drivers are present : sbshc.ko / sbs.ko / video.ko)
> 4- depmod -ae
> 5- create a lenovo-sl-laptop.conf into /etc/modprobe.d
> this is the contents :
> blacklist video
> options lenovo-sl-laptop control_backlight=1
>
> 6- I reboot my system and the acpi driver is not loaded, if I type the same command into the directory I compile the driver I have no issue the driver is loaded and the volume keys work fine.
>
>
> If I type insmod lenovo-sl-alptop, I have an error meesage the system did find the file or the directory.
>
> Could you help me on this issue ?
>
> Thanks
>
> Armel
>
>
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Hello Armel

Unfortunately, I have zero free time for the next several days, but
may be able to help you later. Two quick pieces of advice:
* please read http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/CustomKernel - the
"Out Of Tree Modules" section.
* lenovo-sl-laptop.ko should go into
/lib/modules/2.6.*/kernel/drivers/platform/x86/

-Alex Rostovtsev