Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (1233 mails)

[Xavier Callejas <xavier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Greg KH wrote:

> Do you have a pointer to this patch?  If no one tells the suse kernel
> developers about such things, how can you expect it to automatically
> show up in our kernel?  :)

"thinkpad-acpi release 0.21-20081111 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net"
http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_name=20081111230843.GA11949%40khazad-dum.debian.net&forum_name=ibm-acpi-devel

Well, I could try to recompile the kernel (but the openSUSE 11.0 one, as I 
don't have installed 11.1 beta5) with this path to see if it really fix the 
problem, if you advice me. (or it is safe to use the kernel of factory in 
11.0?)

> > Also, a friend gave me, a couple of day ago, a copy of kubungo 8.10 live
> > cd, I run it in my laptop and the brightness keys works (If I remember
> > well it runs kernel 2.6.27-7); also it has a visual notification for
> > changing the volume with the volume up/down/mute keys. If I were not a
> > openSUSE fan, I probably would install it in my laptop.
>
> That's probably using a userspace tool for this, or the think-pad kernel
> module, which we do offer.  Have you tried them out?

Well, I have been trying with the 'thinkpad-acpi' module since months but 
nothing, it seems it has been broken (in thinkpad-acpi) since a lot of time 
(until now according to this lastest patch).

But, in the other hand, using 'hal' to control brightness also works 
(gnome-power-manager (openSUSE 11) work very cool on this, also has a visual 
notify thing, but in KDE 4.1.x this does not exist, and I am a KDE user 
(don't like gnome except for this :p  ))

But in kubuntu I think that they worked out this brightness key stuff directly 
with thinkpad-acpi.

Thank you very much for your support.

-- 
Xavier Callejas

---
Open Your Mind, Use Open Source.
--
To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxx
For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@xxxxxxxxxxxx