[RFC] IBM thinkpad Fn+Fx key driver

[RFC] IBM thinkpad Fn+Fx key driver

[Erik Rigtorp]

I've written a driver for some of the extra keys on the thinkpads. The
supported keys are: Fn+ F3, F4, F5, F7, F8, F9, F12. It has been tested on
two diffrent thinkpad x31, but I would like some feedback from testing on
other thinkpads. 

http://rigtorp.se/files/src/thinkpad-acpi.tar.gz

Just download, extract, run make and insmod thinkpad_acpi.ko

/Erik

Re: [RFC] IBM thinkpad Fn+Fx key driver

[Daniel Pittman]

On 20 Aug 2004, Erik Rigtorp wrote:
> I've written a driver for some of the extra keys on the thinkpads. The
> supported keys are: Fn+ F3, F4, F5, F7, F8, F9, F12. It has been tested on
> two diffrent thinkpad x31, but I would like some feedback from testing on
> other thinkpads. 
>
> http://rigtorp.se/files/src/thinkpad-acpi.tar.gz

Borislav Deianov (borislav@users.sourceforge.net) has recently posted a
similar Thinkpad ACPI driver on the Thinkpad hardware list, and it has a
number of success reports.

He has apparently taken off on holiday, but you can find the code here:
http://bkernel.sf.net/tmp/ibm-acpi-0.3.tar.gz

Perhaps you should talk to him about merging the code, and then working
together to get this into the kernel?

I believe that he has also been in touch with the ACPI development list.


Anyway, it is good to see Thinkpad specific ACPI support on the way --
being able to software control my Bluetooth adapter would be nice. :)

Regards,
        Daniel
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Re: [RFC] IBM thinkpad Fn+Fx key driver

[Jan Mynarik]

Hi Erik,

your module is working here on IBM ThinkPad R40 2681-BAG. Previously
non-working keys (Fn+ F3, F4, F5, F7, F8, F9, F12) are emitting ACPI
events now. Note that Fn+ F8, F9 are not marked with blue signs here on
R40, so there is no official function assigned :-).

Your driver even survives ACPI suspend to RAM (and wake-up too :-)) and
that's great.

Oops, I almost forgot to mention my kernel configuration: Debian's 2.6.7
(almost vanilla) + ACPI 20040715 (from acpi.sourceforge.net; I need it
for suspend to RAM).

I can't wait till it gets to mainstream 2.6 kernel.

That's all for this report.

Regards,

Jan "Pogo" Mynarik

On Fri, 2004-08-20 at 14:28, Erik Rigtorp wrote:
> I've written a driver for some of the extra keys on the thinkpads. The
> supported keys are: Fn+ F3, F4, F5, F7, F8, F9, F12. It has been tested on
> two diffrent thinkpad x31, but I would like some feedback from testing on
> other thinkpads. 
> 
> http://rigtorp.se/files/src/thinkpad-acpi.tar.gz
> 
> Just download, extract, run make and insmod thinkpad_acpi.ko
> 
> /Erik
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Re: [RFC] IBM thinkpad Fn+Fx key driver

[Sven-Haegar Koch]

On Fri, 20 Aug 2004, Erik Rigtorp wrote:

> I've written a driver for some of the extra keys on the thinkpads. The
> supported keys are: Fn+ F3, F4, F5, F7, F8, F9, F12. It has been tested on
> two diffrent thinkpad x31, but I would like some feedback from testing on
> other thinkpads.

Module compiles, loads, but does nothing for the keys, no acpi events are 
generated.

Kernel 2.6.8-rc3-mm1 with your module on a thinkpad r40e

c'ya
sven

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