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curlynostrill

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Registered: 2008-07-23

Posts: 11

thinkpad-acpi

This should probably be posted in "newbie Laptop issues" but I didn't see that topic.

The Specs:
I have Arch on an old TP570 which I'm mostly using as a Music Player Daemon (w/ additional functionality).  I have not bothered to install X since as it is everything runs in ram w/ a little left over.

The Problem:
I've been trying to get the Fn-Fx buttons working: particularly Fn-F3 which turns off the backlight.  I see alot of reference to thinkpad-acpi but pacman reports that it cannot find "thinkpad-acpi".

It seems that HAL is replacing acpi ... is that the case for Arch?

I have installed acpi and acpid.

My head is reeling.

wonder

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From: Bucharest, Romania

Registered: 2006-07-05

Posts: 5,941

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Re: thinkpad-acpi

thinkpad-acpi is a kernel module.
just "modprobe thinkpad-acpi" and if it's working add than module to MODULES from rc.conf

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whargoul

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From: Odense, Denmark

Registered: 2005-04-04

Posts: 546

Re: thinkpad-acpi

This could also be helpfull: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:570

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bredin

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From: sweden

Registered: 2008-06-28

Posts: 135

Re: thinkpad-acpi

try thinkpad_acpi and configure xorg after right layout

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curlynostrill

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Registered: 2008-07-23

Posts: 11

Re: thinkpad-acpi

Thanks so much for your quick reply, wonder.  That clears up some of my confusion.

Do I still need the acpi and acpid packages if I load the module?

The Fn-F3 didn't work right off the bat after modprobe-ing thinkpad_acpi.  Neither do I don't get any output with #tail /var/log/messages.log  when pressing the key combo.  I'll look into the settings for thinkpad_acpi.

As it is, I found that it seems to be fixing itself, somewhat, or, at least, it's responding to my prodding.  The backlight does turn off when I close the lid, even without thinkpad_acpi, so that's a good thing: probably all I need, really.

wharghoul: thanks for the info, I've definitely looked there and just about everywhere that comes up in the first several pages of google results.  It takes a bit of skill to translate most of that info to arch but good info nonetheless.

bredin: thank you, as well, but I'm not running X and I don't intend to.  My next goal is to have the 'music' user auto-login and auto-run ncmpc.  It makes a great  stereo-top music machine.  I have all the music on a FreeNas server shared by NFS.  It's just tha bomb.

Thanks all!
Best wishes in all your lives.
curly

Last edited by curlynostrill (2008-07-28 06:05:25)