Re: ibm-acpi enhancement request

[Paul Ionescu <i_p_a_u_l-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

Hi Luca,

On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 19:37:01 +0100, Luca Capello wrote:

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> Hello Paul,
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> on 01/24/2005 06:19 PM, Paul Ionescu wrote:
>> I am trying to write some code for ibm-acpi integration in HAL to better
>> support IBM Thinkpads in HAL.
>> (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal )
> this is a good idea, I don't have the capacity to code and help you, but I
> can test whatever you want ;-)
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>> This way we may have a general GUI for interacting with hardware, and we
>> can let go of tpb.
> Why don't integrate the two approaches in an unique one? The first thing
> that came in my mind was this:
>    http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/configure-thinkpad.html

In the end we will have only one GUI, but that would be HAL/DBUS aware and
not IBM specific.
You will be able to configure some property via a generic program, no
matter what laptop/desktop you have.

Think of something like what is alsamixer for soundcards if you like: you
can adjust parameters of various soundcards with different parameters with
only one program.





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