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- ACPI sounds
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- temperature sensors
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- Experimental: embedded controller register dump
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- - Experimental: LCD brightness control
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- - Experimental: volume control
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+ - LCD brightness control
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+ - Volume control
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- Experimental: fan speed, fan enable/disable
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+ - Experimental: WAN enable and disable
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A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web
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site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure
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@@ -52,40 +53,7 @@ Installation
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If you are compiling this driver as included in the Linux kernel
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sources, simply enable the CONFIG_ACPI_IBM option (Power Management /
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-ACPI / IBM ThinkPad Laptop Extras). The rest of this section describes
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-how to install this driver when downloaded from the web site.
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-
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-First, you need to get a kernel with ACPI support up and running.
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-Please refer to http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ for help with this
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-step. How successful you will be depends a lot on you ThinkPad model,
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-the kernel you are using and any additional patches applied. The
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-kernel provided with your distribution may not be good enough. I
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-needed to compile a 2.6.7 kernel with the 20040715 ACPI patch to get
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-ACPI working reliably on my ThinkPad X40. Old ThinkPad models may not
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-be supported at all.
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-
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-Assuming you have the basic ACPI support working (e.g. you can see the
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-/proc/acpi directory), follow the following steps to install this
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-driver:
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-
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- - unpack the archive:
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-
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- tar xzvf ibm-acpi-x.y.tar.gz; cd ibm-acpi-x.y
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-
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- - compile the driver:
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-
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- make
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-
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- - install the module in your kernel modules directory:
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-
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- make install
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-
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- - load the module:
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-
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- modprobe ibm_acpi
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-After loading the module, check the "dmesg" output for any error messages.
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-
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+ACPI / IBM ThinkPad Laptop Extras).
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Features
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--------
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@@ -523,13 +491,8 @@ registers contain the current battery capacity, etc. If you experiment
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with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with
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a description of the conditions when they were taken.)
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-EXPERIMENTAL: LCD brightness control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
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------------------------------------------------------------------
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-
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-This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation
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-directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE
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-WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the
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-experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
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+LCD brightness control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
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+---------------------------------------------------
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This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad
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models which don't have a hardware brightness slider. The available
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@@ -542,13 +505,8 @@ commands are:
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The <level> number range is 0 to 7, although not all of them may be
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distinct. The current brightness level is shown in the file.
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-EXPERIMENTAL: Volume control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/volume
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-
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-This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation
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-directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE
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-WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the
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-experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
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+Volume control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/volume
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+---------------------------------------
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This feature allows volume control on ThinkPad models which don't have
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a hardware volume knob. The available commands are:
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@@ -611,6 +569,23 @@ with the following command:
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echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
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+EXPERIMENTAL: WAN -- /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
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+---------------------------------------
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+
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+This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation
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+directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE
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+WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the
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+experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
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+
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+This feature shows the presence and current state of a WAN (Sierra
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+Wireless EV-DO) device. If WAN is installed, the following commands can
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+be used:
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+
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+ echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
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+ echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
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+
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+It was tested on a Lenovo Thinkpad X60. It should probably work on other
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+Thinkpad models which come with this module installed.
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Multiple Commands, Module Parameters
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