[ltp] Setting the brightness of the mute button LED

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sat, 20 Mar 2010 16:21:57 -0300


On Sat, 20 Mar 2010, August Lilleaas wrote:
> the mute button of my T400s works (it mutes), but the LED on it doesn't.
> Here's "ls /sys/class/leds", neither of which controls the mute button LED.
> 
> mmc0:: tpacpi::power  tpacpi::standby tpacpi::thinklight
>  tpacpi::thinkvantage
> 
> Is there a way to make it shine, or am I out of luck?

Play with the OSI(Linux) stuff in ACPI.  Use the following kernel
parameters:

"acpi_osi=Linux" and "acpi_osi=!Linux"

One enables, the other disables OSI(Linux). I don't know what the kernel is
using on the T400s.

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