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Revision as of 15:27, 5 January 2006
System Boot
Pressing Access IBM at system boot can either launch the Predesktop Area (HPA) or the Rescue and Recovery partition. This depends on a specific setting of the BIOS Setup Utility and the availability of either a Host Protected Area or a bootable diagnostics partition. See the linked pages for details.
Linux support
Using tpb
Under Linux, the IBM ThinkPad(tm) special keys can be enabled using tpb.
I.e., to make pressing the Access IBM Button launch ntpctl, add the following line /etc/tpbrc file:
THINKPAD /usr/bin/X11/xterm -T ntpctl -e ntpctl
To make pressing the Access IBM Button launch the ThinkWiki homepage, add the following line:
THINKPAD /usr/bin/firefox http://www.thinkwiki.org
See the tpb page and the ThinkPad special keys HOWTO for more information.
Using KDE
KDE supports assigning actions to (some) ThinkPad special keys, through the ThinkPad buttons KMilo plugin.
It can be activated and configured in the KDE Control Center (kcontrol), under System Administration --> IBM Thinkpad Laptop.
Windows support (2000 or XP)
If you want to customize the program that is launched when the Access IBM button is pressed while the machine is running Windows (2000 or XP) you can change the following registry entry:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IBM\TPHOTKEY\8001
Here are the default values:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\IBM\TPHOTKEY\8001] "File"="C:\\Program Files\\IBM\\Access IBM\\\\aibm.exe" "DispName"="Access IBM"
Related Links
Models featuring this Technology
"ThinkPad" button
- ThinkPad A20m, A20p, A21e, A21m, A21p, A22e, A22m, A22p, A30, A30p, A31, A31p, A275, A285, A475, A485
- ThinkPad R30, R31, R32
- ThinkPad T20, T21, T22, T23, T30
- ThinkPad X20, X21, X22, X23, X24, X30
- ThinkPad TransNote
"Access IBM" button
- ThinkPad G40, G41
- ThinkPad R40, R40e, R50, R50e, R50p, R51, R51e, R52
- ThinkPad T40, T40p, T41, T41p, T42, T42p, T43, T43p
- ThinkPad X31, X32, X40, X41, X41 Tablet
"ThinkVantage" button