On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 09:45:25AM +0200, Tino Keitel wrote:
> How about a solution that works independent from the desktop
> environment? There are still people who don't use neither Gnome nor
> KDE.
With 2.6.28, with OpRegion patch from Matthew, it'll be handled
in-kernel successfully.
Cheers,
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 11:22:23 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
[...]
> Can you (thinkpad-acpi-devel team) suggest to KDE team to include this
> functionallity too, or doesn't have anything to do with 'thinkpad-acpi' ?
How about a solution that works independent from the desktop
environment? Ther
On mar, 2008-10-21 at 20:42 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
>
> I use KDE, kernel: 2.6.25
>
> I have tried 'video' module and 'thinkpad-acpi' with all the possibles
> paramteres and didn't worked.
You need something able to chat with hal in userspace.
gnome-power-manager is known to work.
--
Yves
Yves-Alexis Perez wrote:
> Keys work (since a long time) in X with gnome-power-manager running
> and /sys/module/video/parameters/brightness_switch_enabled=N
>
> In that case, the brightness is handled by g-p-m in userspace.
>
> In our case, the brightness is handled directly by the kernel, in t
On sam, 2008-10-18 at 20:23 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
>
> This keys works perflectly in the SLED10; the thing is that I am
> using
> openSUSE 11.
Keys work (since a long time) in X with gnome-power-manager running
and /sys/module/video/parameters/brightness_switch_enabled=N
In that case, th
On sam, 2008-10-18 at 16:29 -0600, Xavier Callejas wrote:
> Does this new release will bring the fix for brightness fn keys for
> the
> Thinkpad T61?
This is brought with the “opregion” patch currently in linux-next (and
linux-2.6). Be aware that (for now at least) it works only in X. And I
have h
On Sun, 19 Oct 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:34:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Thanks to some official help, the driver will know when your thinkpad is
> > about to melt down or go out of juice, and will warn you accordingly through
> > syslog and an
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Xavier Callejas wrote:
> Do you think we could try to find out what Lenovo+Novell did with ibm-acpi in
> its SLED10 ???
thinkpad-acpi/ibm-acpi is *out of the circuit* for brightness control on
GPU-based brightness setups on modern X.org. That means your T61.
If you want to
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 02:47:33PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> None. I could start trying to, yes, but it is best to test the changes in
> the kernel first, THEN see if I can somehow get the kernel to adopt a
> generic interface for a certain stuff...
>
> Only after all that, sho
On Sat, Oct 18, 2008 at 11:34:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> Thanks to some official help, the driver will know when your thinkpad is
> about to melt down or go out of juice, and will warn you accordingly through
> syslog and an ACPI event (that HAL can trap and do something with
On Saturday 18 October 2008 20:14:22 you wrote:
> There is very, very little thinkpad-acpi can do for brightness control on
> anything with the Lenovo Vista BIOS.
I bought my Thinkpad T61 with SLED10 preinstalled (nothing about MS Windows at
all).
This keys works perflectly in the SLED10; the th
On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Xavier Callejas wrote:
> > This is your chance to comment on them before I finish writing them and
> > send them to upstream. Use it wisely ;-)
>
> Hi,
>
> Does this new release will bring the fix for brightness fn keys for the
> Thinkpad T61?
No, it will just stop an annoy
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> This is your chance to comment on them before I finish writing them and
> send them to upstream. Use it wisely ;-)
Hi,
Does this new release will bring the fix for brightness fn keys for the
Thinkpad T61?
Thanks.
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On Sat, 18 Oct 2008, Jim Paris wrote:
> > Then the ones that are very nice, but are available only on fairly recent
> > ThinkPad BIOSes:
> >
> > 4. New HKEY notifications for overtemperature on the mainboard and battery!
> >
> > Thanks to some official help, the driver will know when your thinkpa
> Then the ones that are very nice, but are available only on fairly recent
> ThinkPad BIOSes:
>
> 4. New HKEY notifications for overtemperature on the mainboard and battery!
>
> Thanks to some official help, the driver will know when your thinkpad is
> about to melt down or go out of juice, and
There are a few very nice things in the works, and some that a few will
think are not that nice.
This is your chance to comment on them before I finish writing them and send
them to upstream. Use it wisely ;-)
First, the ones I don't expect to be a problem:
1. UWB rfkill control (done, needs t
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