[ltp] Battery tweaks for X1 Carbon - cannot install ts_mapi

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Sun, 23 Dec 2012, Evgeni Golov wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:50:41PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Fri, 21 Dec 2012, Sandro wrote:
> > > I thought I'd install tp-smapi-dkms because my battery keeps charging
> > > those small percentages while I'd rather have it charge only when it
> > > has dropped below 40%.
> > > 
> > > But those instructions found in
> > > <http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi> do no good in Ubuntu 12.10.
> > > The modprobe_command gives an error about a missing file that is
> > > there?
> > > 
> > > Does somebody know how to get those precise battery functions in
> > > modern thinkpads tike this Carbon X1?
> > 
> > Yes.  Find a way to get me one, or track down the author of tp-smapi
> > and get him one.  Failing that, track down "mg" from the thinkpad-forums
> > and get him one.
> > 
> > Maybe there are others who could do it, I am sure they'll say "me too"
> > to this thread if they're around :p
> 
> I'll say there is noone who can do this. But for another reason: the X1 
> has no SMAPI. Lenovo opted in for a ACPI only interface:
> https://github.com/evgeni/tp_smapi/issues/3#issuecomment-2567753

Who said you'd have to bother with SMAPI?  It is clear one has to mess with
ACPI and WMI on the newer Thinkpads, and leave the SMAPI interface for the
older ones.

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  Henrique Holschuh