they will keep being broken, thats why i asked for the lshal data. how would you want to fix the real problem ? we cant patch the broken BIOSes, we can only work around the existing breakage.
apart from that the fix to match all ThinkPads is a change of three letters in the fdi file, it appears that thinkpads used to report the manufacturer as LENOVO, while they now report IBM ... -- [Feisty] Thinkpad (all models) LCD brightness control cycles between lowest settings only https://launchpad.net/bugs/81407 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
