Ibm-acpi

ibm-acpi - IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver

This is a Linux ACPI driver for the IBM ThinkPad laptops written by Borislav Deianov. It aims to support various features of these laptops which are accessible through the ACPI framework but not otherwise supported by the generic Linux ACPI drivers.

Features

• Fn key combinations
• Bluetooth enable and disable
• video output switching, video expansion control
• ThinkLight on/off
• limited docking and undocking
• UltraBay device eject

Project Homepage / Availability

http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/

Status

in early development, usable, very much alife

Packages

• Debian Packages: http://debian.isg.ee.ethz.ch/public/

Interesting links related to this project

• ibm-acpi Sourceforge project summary
• Linux-Thinkpad Mailinglist
• acpi.sourceforge.net
• www.kernel.org