Difference between revisions of "Tpctl"

Revision as of 19:06, 7 January 2008

Project page: http://tpctl.sourceforge.net/
You need to download the thinkpad module and tpctl userspace tool.
There is also an optional GUI: configure-thinkpad.
On Debian and Ubuntu systems, these facilities are provided by the packages thinkpad-source, thinkpad-base, and tpctl. However, Debian is moving to deprecate these packages and remove them from the distribution (bug report #400141). As such, no further maintenance is being done on them, and thinkpad-source no longer builds on kernels newer than 2.6.17 or so. Debian recommends moving to tp_smapi instead (for which no package yet exists).

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-The <tt>tpctl</tt> user-space tool, in conjunction with the <tt>thinkpad</tt> kernel module, provide access to some [[SMAPI support for Linux|SMAPI]] functions on various ThinkPad models. On some relatively new ThinkPad models similar functionality is exposed through an ACPI interface.  On some relatively new ThinkPad models a different set of SMAPI features is made available by the [[tp_smapi]] driver.  On some models the SMAPI interface is not available at all.
+The <tt>tpctl</tt> user-space tool, in conjunction with the <tt>thinkpad</tt> kernel module, provides access to some [[SMAPI support for Linux|SMAPI]] functions on various ThinkPad models.  This software is now obsolete because the modules no longer build under the latest versions of Linux.
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+On some relatively new ThinkPad models similar functionality is exposed through an ACPI interface.  On some relatively new ThinkPad models a different set of SMAPI features is made available by the [[tp_smapi]] driver.  On some models the SMAPI interface is not available at all.
-For kernel 2.6.3 and newer you need <tt>tpctl</tt> >=4.14 and <tt>thinkpad </tt> >=5.5.<br>
-For kernel 2.6.9 and newer you need <tt>thinkpad</tt> >= 6.0.
-}}
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 ===Features===