Thinkpad-acpi

thinkpad-acpi - IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver

This is a Linux ACPI driver for the IBM ThinkPad laptops written by Erik Rigtorp. 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. It is in the kernel since 2.6.9.

Features

• FnF3, FnF4, FnF5, FnF6, FnF7, FnF8, FnF9, FnF12 key events

Project Homepage / Availability

The driver is included with kernels starting from 2.6.8.

Status

under development, usable (?)

Interesting links related to this project

• Erik Rigtorps rare comments on this
• ibm-acpi Sourceforge project summary
• acpi.sourceforge.net
• www.kernel.org