On Mon, 11 Jul 2011 16:34:43 -0700, Kevin Oberman wrote:
> I recently went from a ThinkPad T43 to a T520. On the T520, ac[i_ibm
> is not functional. 'sysctl dev.acpi_ibm'
> returns nothing. No volume control, though MUTE does work.
Is the module actually loading? If so, verbose dmesg shpuld say like
Preloaded elf module "/boot/kernel/acpi_ibm.ko" at 0xc103b2e0
and presumably whinge if it failed to load?
> Any idea about a fix? Can I just change the OEMID to LENOVO? (Probably
> should change all "IBM references to LENOVO while I'm at it.)
> I'll probably give this a shot, just to see if it works.
Change where? No OEMID in /sys/dev/acpi_support/acpi_ibm.c at 8.2-R.
cheers, Ian