From 24f7ff0af855ece60064a2532d8b316df02983c6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Schmidt Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:19:15 +0200 Subject: ACPI: ibm_acpi: Update documentation for brightness and volume. Document the change of the experimental flag for brightness and volume. Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt Acked-by: Borislav Deianov Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt | 22 ++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt index 71aa40345272..1672590d8efa 100644 --- a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@ detailed description): - ACPI sounds - temperature sensors - Experimental: embedded controller register dump - - Experimental: LCD brightness control - - Experimental: volume control + - LCD brightness control + - Volume control - Experimental: fan speed, fan enable/disable A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web @@ -523,13 +523,8 @@ registers contain the current battery capacity, etc. If you experiment with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with a description of the conditions when they were taken.) -EXPERIMENTAL: LCD brightness control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness ------------------------------------------------------------------ - -This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation -directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE -WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the -experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. +LCD brightness control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness +--------------------------------------------------- This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad models which don't have a hardware brightness slider. The available @@ -542,13 +537,8 @@ commands are: The number range is 0 to 7, although not all of them may be distinct. The current brightness level is shown in the file. -EXPERIMENTAL: Volume control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/volume ------------------------------------------------------ - -This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation -directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE -WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the -experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. +Volume control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/volume +--------------------------------------- This feature allows volume control on ThinkPad models which don't have a hardware volume knob. The available commands are: -- cgit v1.2.3 From 28b779d127d3038ff83f42259d135a063b7cd848 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Schmidt Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:19:16 +0200 Subject: ACPI: ibm_acpi: Documentation the wan feature. Document the wan feature Jeremy Fitzhardinge added to ibm_acpi. Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt Acked-by: Borislav Deianov Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt | 18 ++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt index 1672590d8efa..00b8cf3999cc 100644 --- a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ detailed description): - LCD brightness control - Volume control - Experimental: fan speed, fan enable/disable + - Experimental: WAN enable and disable A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure @@ -601,6 +602,23 @@ with the following command: echo 'level ' > /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal +EXPERIMENTAL: WAN -- /proc/acpi/ibm/wan +--------------------------------------- + +This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation +directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE +WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the +experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. + +This feature shows the presence and current state of a WAN (Sierra +Wireless EV-DO) device. If WAN is installed, the following commands can +be used: + + echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan + echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan + +It was tested on a Lenovo Thinkpad X60. It should probably work on other +Thinkpad models which come with this module installed. Multiple Commands, Module Parameters ------------------------------------ -- cgit v1.2.3 From 2fe6dffabb06bfa0591c8c490b092b458fba1f06 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pavel Machek Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 14:15:54 +0200 Subject: ACPI: ibm_acpi: delete obsolete documentation As this module is now part of the kernel tree, there is no need for instructions on how to download it and build an external module. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek Signed-off-by: Len Brown --- Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt | 35 +---------------------------------- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 34 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt index 00b8cf3999cc..e50595bfd8ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt +++ b/Documentation/ibm-acpi.txt @@ -53,40 +53,7 @@ Installation If you are compiling this driver as included in the Linux kernel sources, simply enable the CONFIG_ACPI_IBM option (Power Management / -ACPI / IBM ThinkPad Laptop Extras). The rest of this section describes -how to install this driver when downloaded from the web site. - -First, you need to get a kernel with ACPI support up and running. -Please refer to http://acpi.sourceforge.net/ for help with this -step. How successful you will be depends a lot on you ThinkPad model, -the kernel you are using and any additional patches applied. The -kernel provided with your distribution may not be good enough. I -needed to compile a 2.6.7 kernel with the 20040715 ACPI patch to get -ACPI working reliably on my ThinkPad X40. Old ThinkPad models may not -be supported at all. - -Assuming you have the basic ACPI support working (e.g. you can see the -/proc/acpi directory), follow the following steps to install this -driver: - - - unpack the archive: - - tar xzvf ibm-acpi-x.y.tar.gz; cd ibm-acpi-x.y - - - compile the driver: - - make - - - install the module in your kernel modules directory: - - make install - - - load the module: - - modprobe ibm_acpi - -After loading the module, check the "dmesg" output for any error messages. - +ACPI / IBM ThinkPad Laptop Extras). Features -------- -- cgit v1.2.3