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643f12db 1 ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver
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3 Version 0.24
4 December 11th, 2009
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6 Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net>
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7 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
8 http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
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10
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11This is a Linux driver for the IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptops. It
12supports various features of these laptops which are accessible
13through the ACPI and ACPI EC framework, but not otherwise fully
14supported by the generic Linux ACPI drivers.
15
16This driver used to be named ibm-acpi until kernel 2.6.21 and release
170.13-20070314. It used to be in the drivers/acpi tree, but it was
18moved to the drivers/misc tree and renamed to thinkpad-acpi for kernel
9abf0eea 192.6.22, and release 0.14. It was moved to drivers/platform/x86 for
aa2fbcec 20kernel 2.6.29 and release 0.22.
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95e57ab2 22The driver is named "thinkpad-acpi". In some places, like module
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23names and log messages, "thinkpad_acpi" is used because of userspace
24issues.
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25
26"tpacpi" is used as a shorthand where "thinkpad-acpi" would be too
27long due to length limitations on some Linux kernel versions.
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28
29Status
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31
32The features currently supported are the following (see below for
33detailed description):
34
35 - Fn key combinations
36 - Bluetooth enable and disable
837ca6dd 37 - video output switching, expansion control
1da177e4 38 - ThinkLight on and off
078ac19e 39 - CMOS/UCMS control
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40 - LED control
41 - ACPI sounds
42 - temperature sensors
43 - Experimental: embedded controller register dump
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44 - LCD brightness control
45 - Volume control
ecf2a80a 46 - Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
9662e080 47 - WAN enable and disable
078ac19e 48 - UWB enable and disable
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49
50A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web
51site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure
52reports, especially if they add to or correct the compatibility table.
53Please include the following information in your report:
54
55 - ThinkPad model name
078ac19e 56 - a copy of your ACPI tables, using the "acpidump" utility
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57 - a copy of the output of dmidecode, with serial numbers
58 and UUIDs masked off
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59 - which driver features work and which don't
60 - the observed behavior of non-working features
61
62Any other comments or patches are also more than welcome.
63
64
65Installation
66------------
67
68If you are compiling this driver as included in the Linux kernel
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69sources, look for the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI Kconfig option.
70It is located on the menu path: "Device Drivers" -> "X86 Platform
71Specific Device Drivers" -> "ThinkPad ACPI Laptop Extras".
72
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73
74Features
75--------
76
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77The driver exports two different interfaces to userspace, which can be
78used to access the features it provides. One is a legacy procfs-based
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79interface, which will be removed at some time in the future. The other
80is a new sysfs-based interface which is not complete yet.
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81
82The procfs interface creates the /proc/acpi/ibm directory. There is a
83file under that directory for each feature it supports. The procfs
84interface is mostly frozen, and will change very little if at all: it
85will not be extended to add any new functionality in the driver, instead
86all new functionality will be implemented on the sysfs interface.
87
88The sysfs interface tries to blend in the generic Linux sysfs subsystems
89and classes as much as possible. Since some of these subsystems are not
90yet ready or stabilized, it is expected that this interface will change,
91and any and all userspace programs must deal with it.
92
93
94Notes about the sysfs interface:
95
96Unlike what was done with the procfs interface, correctness when talking
97to the sysfs interfaces will be enforced, as will correctness in the
98thinkpad-acpi's implementation of sysfs interfaces.
99
100Also, any bugs in the thinkpad-acpi sysfs driver code or in the
101thinkpad-acpi's implementation of the sysfs interfaces will be fixed for
102maximum correctness, even if that means changing an interface in
103non-compatible ways. As these interfaces mature both in the kernel and
104in thinkpad-acpi, such changes should become quite rare.
105
106Applications interfacing to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interfaces must
107follow all sysfs guidelines and correctly process all errors (the sysfs
108interface makes extensive use of errors). File descriptors and open /
109close operations to the sysfs inodes must also be properly implemented.
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111The version of thinkpad-acpi's sysfs interface is exported by the driver
112as a driver attribute (see below).
113
114Sysfs driver attributes are on the driver's sysfs attribute space,
078ac19e 115for 2.6.23+ this is /sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_acpi/ and
7fd40029 116/sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_hwmon/
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7fd40029 118Sysfs device attributes are on the thinkpad_acpi device sysfs attribute
078ac19e 119space, for 2.6.23+ this is /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/.
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120
121Sysfs device attributes for the sensors and fan are on the
122thinkpad_hwmon device's sysfs attribute space, but you should locate it
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123looking for a hwmon device with the name attribute of "thinkpad", or
124better yet, through libsensors.
125
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126
127Driver version
128--------------
129
130procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/driver
131sysfs driver attribute: version
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133The driver name and version. No commands can be written to this file.
134
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136Sysfs interface version
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138
139sysfs driver attribute: interface_version
140
141Version of the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface, as an unsigned long
142(output in hex format: 0xAAAABBCC), where:
143 AAAA - major revision
144 BB - minor revision
145 CC - bugfix revision
146
147The sysfs interface version changelog for the driver can be found at the
148end of this document. Changes to the sysfs interface done by the kernel
149subsystems are not documented here, nor are they tracked by this
150attribute.
151
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152Changes to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface are only considered
153non-experimental when they are submitted to Linux mainline, at which
154point the changes in this interface are documented and interface_version
155may be updated. If you are using any thinkpad-acpi features not yet
156sent to mainline for merging, you do so on your own risk: these features
157may disappear, or be implemented in a different and incompatible way by
158the time they are merged in Linux mainline.
159
160Changes that are backwards-compatible by nature (e.g. the addition of
161attributes that do not change the way the other attributes work) do not
162always warrant an update of interface_version. Therefore, one must
163expect that an attribute might not be there, and deal with it properly
164(an attribute not being there *is* a valid way to make it clear that a
165feature is not available in sysfs).
166
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168Hot keys
169--------
170
171procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
cc4c24e1 172sysfs device attribute: hotkey_*
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d0788cfb 174In a ThinkPad, the ACPI HKEY handler is responsible for communicating
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175some important events and also keyboard hot key presses to the operating
176system. Enabling the hotkey functionality of thinkpad-acpi signals the
177firmware that such a driver is present, and modifies how the ThinkPad
178firmware will behave in many situations.
179
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180The driver enables the HKEY ("hot key") event reporting automatically
181when loaded, and disables it when it is removed.
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2586d566 183The driver will report HKEY events in the following format:
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185 ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 0000xxxx
186
2586d566 187Some of these events refer to hot key presses, but not all of them.
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189The driver will generate events over the input layer for hot keys and
190radio switches, and over the ACPI netlink layer for other events. The
191input layer support accepts the standard IOCTLs to remap the keycodes
192assigned to each hot key.
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193
194The hot key bit mask allows some control over which hot keys generate
195events. If a key is "masked" (bit set to 0 in the mask), the firmware
196will handle it. If it is "unmasked", it signals the firmware that
197thinkpad-acpi would prefer to handle it, if the firmware would be so
198kind to allow it (and it often doesn't!).
199
200Not all bits in the mask can be modified. Not all bits that can be
201modified do anything. Not all hot keys can be individually controlled
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202by the mask. Some models do not support the mask at all. The behaviour
203of the mask is, therefore, highly dependent on the ThinkPad model.
204
205The driver will filter out any unmasked hotkeys, so even if the firmware
206doesn't allow disabling an specific hotkey, the driver will not report
207events for unmasked hotkeys.
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208
209Note that unmasking some keys prevents their default behavior. For
210example, if Fn+F5 is unmasked, that key will no longer enable/disable
0d922e3b 211Bluetooth by itself in firmware.
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213Note also that not all Fn key combinations are supported through ACPI
214depending on the ThinkPad model and firmware version. On those
215ThinkPads, it is still possible to support some extra hotkeys by
216polling the "CMOS NVRAM" at least 10 times per second. The driver
217attempts to enables this functionality automatically when required.
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219procfs notes:
220
221The following commands can be written to the /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey file:
222
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223 echo 0xffffffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- enable all hot keys
224 echo 0 > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- disable all possible hot keys
225 ... any other 8-hex-digit mask ...
20c9aa46 226 echo reset > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- restore the recommended mask
a0416420 227
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228The following commands have been deprecated and will cause the kernel
229to log a warning:
230
231 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- does nothing
232 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- returns an error
233
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234The procfs interface does not support NVRAM polling control. So as to
235maintain maximum bug-to-bug compatibility, it does not report any masks,
236nor does it allow one to manipulate the hot key mask when the firmware
237does not support masks at all, even if NVRAM polling is in use.
238
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239sysfs notes:
240
cc4c24e1 241 hotkey_bios_enabled:
2586d566 242 DEPRECATED, WILL BE REMOVED SOON.
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2586d566 244 Returns 0.
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cc4c24e1 246 hotkey_bios_mask:
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247 DEPRECATED, DON'T USE, WILL BE REMOVED IN THE FUTURE.
248
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249 Returns the hot keys mask when thinkpad-acpi was loaded.
250 Upon module unload, the hot keys mask will be restored
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251 to this value. This is always 0x80c, because those are
252 the hotkeys that were supported by ancient firmware
253 without mask support.
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cc4c24e1 255 hotkey_enable:
2586d566 256 DEPRECATED, WILL BE REMOVED SOON.
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258 0: returns -EPERM
259 1: does nothing
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cc4c24e1 261 hotkey_mask:
0d922e3b 262 bit mask to enable reporting (and depending on
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263 the firmware, ACPI event generation) for each hot key
264 (see above). Returns the current status of the hot keys
265 mask, and allows one to modify it.
266
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267 hotkey_all_mask:
268 bit mask that should enable event reporting for all
269 supported hot keys, when echoed to hotkey_mask above.
270 Unless you know which events need to be handled
271 passively (because the firmware *will* handle them
272 anyway), do *not* use hotkey_all_mask. Use
273 hotkey_recommended_mask, instead. You have been warned.
274
275 hotkey_recommended_mask:
276 bit mask that should enable event reporting for all
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277 supported hot keys, except those which are always
278 handled by the firmware anyway. Echo it to
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279 hotkey_mask above, to use. This is the default mask
280 used by the driver.
9b010de5 281
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282 hotkey_source_mask:
283 bit mask that selects which hot keys will the driver
284 poll the NVRAM for. This is auto-detected by the driver
285 based on the capabilities reported by the ACPI firmware,
286 but it can be overridden at runtime.
287
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288 Hot keys whose bits are set in hotkey_source_mask are
289 polled for in NVRAM, and reported as hotkey events if
290 enabled in hotkey_mask. Only a few hot keys are
291 available through CMOS NVRAM polling.
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292
293 Warning: when in NVRAM mode, the volume up/down/mute
294 keys are synthesized according to changes in the mixer,
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295 which uses a single volume up or volume down hotkey
296 press to unmute, as per the ThinkPad volume mixer user
297 interface. When in ACPI event mode, volume up/down/mute
298 events are reported by the firmware and can behave
299 differently (and that behaviour changes with firmware
300 version -- not just with firmware models -- as well as
301 OSI(Linux) state).
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303 hotkey_poll_freq:
304 frequency in Hz for hot key polling. It must be between
305 0 and 25 Hz. Polling is only carried out when strictly
306 needed.
307
308 Setting hotkey_poll_freq to zero disables polling, and
309 will cause hot key presses that require NVRAM polling
310 to never be reported.
311
69df49eb 312 Setting hotkey_poll_freq too low may cause repeated
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313 pressings of the same hot key to be misreported as a
314 single key press, or to not even be detected at all.
315 The recommended polling frequency is 10Hz.
316
74941a69 317 hotkey_radio_sw:
d147da73 318 If the ThinkPad has a hardware radio switch, this
74941a69 319 attribute will read 0 if the switch is in the "radios
d0788cfb 320 disabled" position, and 1 if the switch is in the
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321 "radios enabled" position.
322
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323 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
324
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325 hotkey_tablet_mode:
326 If the ThinkPad has tablet capabilities, this attribute
327 will read 0 if the ThinkPad is in normal mode, and
328 1 if the ThinkPad is in tablet mode.
329
330 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
331
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332 hotkey_report_mode:
333 Returns the state of the procfs ACPI event report mode
334 filter for hot keys. If it is set to 1 (the default),
335 all hot key presses are reported both through the input
336 layer and also as ACPI events through procfs (but not
337 through netlink). If it is set to 2, hot key presses
338 are reported only through the input layer.
339
340 This attribute is read-only in kernels 2.6.23 or later,
341 and read-write on earlier kernels.
342
343 May return -EPERM (write access locked out by module
344 parameter) or -EACCES (read-only).
345
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346 wakeup_reason:
347 Set to 1 if the system is waking up because the user
348 requested a bay ejection. Set to 2 if the system is
349 waking up because the user requested the system to
350 undock. Set to zero for normal wake-ups or wake-ups
351 due to unknown reasons.
352
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353 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
354
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355 wakeup_hotunplug_complete:
356 Set to 1 if the system was waken up because of an
357 undock or bay ejection request, and that request
d0788cfb 358 was successfully completed. At this point, it might
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359 be useful to send the system back to sleep, at the
360 user's choice. Refer to HKEY events 0x4003 and
361 0x3003, below.
362
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363 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
364
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365input layer notes:
366
367A Hot key is mapped to a single input layer EV_KEY event, possibly
368followed by an EV_MSC MSC_SCAN event that shall contain that key's scan
369code. An EV_SYN event will always be generated to mark the end of the
370event block.
371
372Do not use the EV_MSC MSC_SCAN events to process keys. They are to be
373used as a helper to remap keys, only. They are particularly useful when
374remapping KEY_UNKNOWN keys.
375
376The events are available in an input device, with the following id:
377
378 Bus: BUS_HOST
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379 vendor: 0x1014 (PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM) or
380 0x17aa (PCI_VENDOR_ID_LENOVO)
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381 product: 0x5054 ("TP")
382 version: 0x4101
383
384The version will have its LSB incremented if the keymap changes in a
385backwards-compatible way. The MSB shall always be 0x41 for this input
386device. If the MSB is not 0x41, do not use the device as described in
387this section, as it is either something else (e.g. another input device
388exported by a thinkpad driver, such as HDAPS) or its functionality has
389been changed in a non-backwards compatible way.
390
391Adding other event types for other functionalities shall be considered a
392backwards-compatible change for this input device.
393
394Thinkpad-acpi Hot Key event map (version 0x4101):
395
396ACPI Scan
397event code Key Notes
398
3990x1001 0x00 FN+F1 -
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4010x1002 0x01 FN+F2 IBM: battery (rare)
402 Lenovo: Screen lock
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4040x1003 0x02 FN+F3 Many IBM models always report
405 this hot key, even with hot keys
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406 disabled or with Fn+F3 masked
407 off
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408 IBM: screen lock, often turns
409 off the ThinkLight as side-effect
edf0e0e5 410 Lenovo: battery
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411
4120x1004 0x03 FN+F4 Sleep button (ACPI sleep button
d0788cfb 413 semantics, i.e. sleep-to-RAM).
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414 It is always generate some kind
415 of event, either the hot key
416 event or a ACPI sleep button
417 event. The firmware may
418 refuse to generate further FN+F4
419 key presses until a S3 or S4 ACPI
420 sleep cycle is performed or some
421 time passes.
422
4230x1005 0x04 FN+F5 Radio. Enables/disables
d0788cfb 424 the internal Bluetooth hardware
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425 and W-WAN card if left in control
426 of the firmware. Does not affect
427 the WLAN card.
edf0e0e5 428 Should be used to turn on/off all
d0788cfb 429 radios (Bluetooth+W-WAN+WLAN),
edf0e0e5 430 really.
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431
4320x1006 0x05 FN+F6 -
433
4340x1007 0x06 FN+F7 Video output cycle.
435 Do you feel lucky today?
436
edf0e0e5 4370x1008 0x07 FN+F8 IBM: toggle screen expand
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438 Lenovo: configure UltraNav,
439 or toggle screen expand
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440
4410x1009 0x08 FN+F9 -
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442 .. .. ..
4430x100B 0x0A FN+F11 -
444
4450x100C 0x0B FN+F12 Sleep to disk. You are always
446 supposed to handle it yourself,
447 either through the ACPI event,
448 or through a hotkey event.
449 The firmware may refuse to
69df49eb 450 generate further FN+F12 key
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451 press events until a S3 or S4
452 ACPI sleep cycle is performed,
453 or some time passes.
454
4550x100D 0x0C FN+BACKSPACE -
4560x100E 0x0D FN+INSERT -
4570x100F 0x0E FN+DELETE -
458
4590x1010 0x0F FN+HOME Brightness up. This key is
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460 always handled by the firmware
461 in IBM ThinkPads, even when
462 unmasked. Just leave it alone.
463 For Lenovo ThinkPads with a new
464 BIOS, it has to be handled either
465 by the ACPI OSI, or by userspace.
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466 The driver does the right thing,
467 never mess with this.
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4680x1011 0x10 FN+END Brightness down. See brightness
469 up for details.
470
d0788cfb 4710x1012 0x11 FN+PGUP ThinkLight toggle. This key is
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472 always handled by the firmware,
473 even when unmasked.
474
4750x1013 0x12 FN+PGDOWN -
476
4770x1014 0x13 FN+SPACE Zoom key
478
4790x1015 0x14 VOLUME UP Internal mixer volume up. This
480 key is always handled by the
481 firmware, even when unmasked.
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482 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing
483 this.
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4840x1016 0x15 VOLUME DOWN Internal mixer volume up. This
485 key is always handled by the
486 firmware, even when unmasked.
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487 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing
488 this.
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4890x1017 0x16 MUTE Mute internal mixer. This
490 key is always handled by the
491 firmware, even when unmasked.
492
d0788cfb 4930x1018 0x17 THINKPAD ThinkPad/Access IBM/Lenovo key
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4950x1019 0x18 unknown
496.. .. ..
4970x1020 0x1F unknown
498
499The ThinkPad firmware does not allow one to differentiate when most hot
500keys are pressed or released (either that, or we don't know how to, yet).
501For these keys, the driver generates a set of events for a key press and
502immediately issues the same set of events for a key release. It is
503unknown by the driver if the ThinkPad firmware triggered these events on
504hot key press or release, but the firmware will do it for either one, not
505both.
506
ff80f137 507If a key is mapped to KEY_RESERVED, it generates no input events at all.
6a38abbf 508If a key is mapped to KEY_UNKNOWN, it generates an input event that
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509includes an scan code. If a key is mapped to anything else, it will
510generate input device EV_KEY events.
6a38abbf 511
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512In addition to the EV_KEY events, thinkpad-acpi may also issue EV_SW
513events for switches:
514
19f59460 515SW_RFKILL_ALL T60 and later hardware rfkill rocker switch
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516SW_TABLET_MODE Tablet ThinkPads HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A
517
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518Non hotkey ACPI HKEY event map:
519-------------------------------
520
521Events that are not propagated by the driver, except for legacy
522compatibility purposes when hotkey_report_mode is set to 1:
523
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5240x5001 Lid closed
5250x5002 Lid opened
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5260x5009 Tablet swivel: switched to tablet mode
5270x500A Tablet swivel: switched to normal mode
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5280x7000 Radio Switch may have changed state
529
69df49eb 530Events that are never propagated by the driver:
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5320x2304 System is waking up from suspend to undock
5330x2305 System is waking up from suspend to eject bay
5340x2404 System is waking up from hibernation to undock
5350x2405 System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay
176dd985 5360x5010 Brightness level changed/control event
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69df49eb 538Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:
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5400x2313 ALARM: System is waking up from suspend because
541 the battery is nearly empty
5420x2413 ALARM: System is waking up from hibernation because
543 the battery is nearly empty
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5450x3006 Bay hotplug request (hint to power up SATA link when
546 the optical drive tray is ejected)
a713b4d7 5470x4003 Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again
d0788cfb 5480x500B Tablet pen inserted into its storage bay
d1edb2b5 5490x500C Tablet pen removed from its storage bay
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5500x6011 ALARM: battery is too hot
5510x6012 ALARM: battery is extremely hot
5520x6021 ALARM: a sensor is too hot
5530x6022 ALARM: a sensor is extremely hot
5540x6030 System thermal table changed
555
556Battery nearly empty alarms are a last resort attempt to get the
557operating system to hibernate or shutdown cleanly (0x2313), or shutdown
558cleanly (0x2413) before power is lost. They must be acted upon, as the
559wake up caused by the firmware will have negated most safety nets...
560
561When any of the "too hot" alarms happen, according to Lenovo the user
562should suspend or hibernate the laptop (and in the case of battery
563alarms, unplug the AC adapter) to let it cool down. These alarms do
564signal that something is wrong, they should never happen on normal
565operating conditions.
566
567The "extremely hot" alarms are emergencies. According to Lenovo, the
568operating system is to force either an immediate suspend or hibernate
569cycle, or a system shutdown. Obviously, something is very wrong if this
570happens.
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572Compatibility notes:
573
574ibm-acpi and thinkpad-acpi 0.15 (mainline kernels before 2.6.23) never
575supported the input layer, and sent events over the procfs ACPI event
576interface.
577
578To avoid sending duplicate events over the input layer and the ACPI
579event interface, thinkpad-acpi 0.16 implements a module parameter
580(hotkey_report_mode), and also a sysfs device attribute with the same
581name.
582
583Make no mistake here: userspace is expected to switch to using the input
584layer interface of thinkpad-acpi, together with the ACPI netlink event
585interface in kernels 2.6.23 and later, or with the ACPI procfs event
586interface in kernels 2.6.22 and earlier.
587
588If no hotkey_report_mode module parameter is specified (or it is set to
589zero), the driver defaults to mode 1 (see below), and on kernels 2.6.22
590and earlier, also allows one to change the hotkey_report_mode through
591sysfs. In kernels 2.6.23 and later, where the netlink ACPI event
592interface is available, hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed through
593sysfs (it is read-only).
594
595If the hotkey_report_mode module parameter is set to 1 or 2, it cannot
596be changed later through sysfs (any writes will return -EPERM to signal
597that hotkey_report_mode was locked. On 2.6.23 and later, where
d0788cfb 598hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed at all, writes will return -EACCES).
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599
600hotkey_report_mode set to 1 makes the driver export through the procfs
601ACPI event interface all hot key presses (which are *also* sent to the
602input layer). This is a legacy compatibility behaviour, and it is also
603the default mode of operation for the driver.
604
605hotkey_report_mode set to 2 makes the driver filter out the hot key
606presses from the procfs ACPI event interface, so these events will only
607be sent through the input layer. Userspace that has been updated to use
608the thinkpad-acpi input layer interface should set hotkey_report_mode to
6092.
610
611Hot key press events are never sent to the ACPI netlink event interface.
612Really up-to-date userspace under kernel 2.6.23 and later is to use the
613netlink interface and the input layer interface, and don't bother at all
614with hotkey_report_mode.
615
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617Brightness hotkey notes:
618
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619Don't mess with the brightness hotkeys in a Thinkpad. If you want
620notifications for OSD, use the sysfs backlight class event support.
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622The driver will issue KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN events
623automatically for the cases were userspace has to do something to
624implement brightness changes. When you override these events, you will
625either fail to handle properly the ThinkPads that require explicit
626action to change backlight brightness, or the ThinkPads that require
627that no action be taken to work properly.
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630Bluetooth
631---------
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d3a6ade4 633procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
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634sysfs device attribute: bluetooth_enable (deprecated)
635sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw"
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636
637This feature shows the presence and current state of a ThinkPad
638Bluetooth device in the internal ThinkPad CDC slot.
639
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640If the ThinkPad supports it, the Bluetooth state is stored in NVRAM,
641so it is kept across reboots and power-off.
642
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643Procfs notes:
644
645If Bluetooth is installed, the following commands can be used:
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646
647 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
648 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
649
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650Sysfs notes:
651
652 If the Bluetooth CDC card is installed, it can be enabled /
cc4c24e1 653 disabled through the "bluetooth_enable" thinkpad-acpi device
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654 attribute, and its current status can also be queried.
655
656 enable:
657 0: disables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is disabled
658 1: enables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is enabled.
659
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660 Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill
661 class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year
662 2010.
663
664 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw": refer to
665 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
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668Video output control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/video
669--------------------------------------------
670
671This feature allows control over the devices used for video output -
672LCD, CRT or DVI (if available). The following commands are available:
673
674 echo lcd_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
675 echo lcd_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
676 echo crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
677 echo crt_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
678 echo dvi_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
679 echo dvi_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
680 echo auto_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
681 echo auto_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
682 echo expand_toggle > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
683 echo video_switch > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
684
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685NOTE: Access to this feature is restricted to processes owning the
686CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for safety reasons, as it can interact badly
687enough with some versions of X.org to crash it.
688
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689Each video output device can be enabled or disabled individually.
690Reading /proc/acpi/ibm/video shows the status of each device.
691
692Automatic video switching can be enabled or disabled. When automatic
693video switching is enabled, certain events (e.g. opening the lid,
694docking or undocking) cause the video output device to change
695automatically. While this can be useful, it also causes flickering
696and, on the X40, video corruption. By disabling automatic switching,
697the flickering or video corruption can be avoided.
698
699The video_switch command cycles through the available video outputs
78f81cc4 700(it simulates the behavior of Fn-F7).
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701
702Video expansion can be toggled through this feature. This controls
703whether the display is expanded to fill the entire LCD screen when a
704mode with less than full resolution is used. Note that the current
705video expansion status cannot be determined through this feature.
706
707Note that on many models (particularly those using Radeon graphics
708chips) the X driver configures the video card in a way which prevents
709Fn-F7 from working. This also disables the video output switching
710features of this driver, as it uses the same ACPI methods as
711Fn-F7. Video switching on the console should still work.
712
078ac19e 713UPDATE: refer to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000
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716ThinkLight control
717------------------
718
719procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/light
65807cc2 720sysfs attributes: as per LED class, for the "tpacpi::thinklight" LED
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721
722procfs notes:
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724The ThinkLight status can be read and set through the procfs interface. A
725few models which do not make the status available will show the ThinkLight
726status as "unknown". The available commands are:
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727
728 echo on > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
729 echo off > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
730
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731sysfs notes:
732
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733The ThinkLight sysfs interface is documented by the LED class
734documentation, in Documentation/leds-class.txt. The ThinkLight LED name
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735is "tpacpi::thinklight".
736
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738cannot be read or if it is unknown, thinkpad-acpi will report it as "off".
739It is impossible to know if the status returned through sysfs is valid.
740
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742CMOS/UCMS control
743-----------------
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744
745procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/cmos
746sysfs device attribute: cmos_command
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748This feature is mostly used internally by the ACPI firmware to keep the legacy
749CMOS NVRAM bits in sync with the current machine state, and to record this
750state so that the ThinkPad will retain such settings across reboots.
751
752Some of these commands actually perform actions in some ThinkPad models, but
753this is expected to disappear more and more in newer models. As an example, in
754a T43 and in a X40, commands 12 and 13 still control the ThinkLight state for
755real, but commands 0 to 2 don't control the mixer anymore (they have been
756phased out) and just update the NVRAM.
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758The range of valid cmos command numbers is 0 to 21, but not all have an
759effect and the behavior varies from model to model. Here is the behavior
760on the X40 (tpb is the ThinkPad Buttons utility):
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762 0 - Related to "Volume down" key press
763 1 - Related to "Volume up" key press
764 2 - Related to "Mute on" key press
765 3 - Related to "Access IBM" key press
d0788cfb 766 4 - Related to "LCD brightness up" key press
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767 5 - Related to "LCD brightness down" key press
768 11 - Related to "toggle screen expansion" key press/function
769 12 - Related to "ThinkLight on"
770 13 - Related to "ThinkLight off"
d0788cfb 771 14 - Related to "ThinkLight" key press (toggle ThinkLight)
1da177e4 772
b616004c 773The cmos command interface is prone to firmware split-brain problems, as
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774in newer ThinkPads it is just a compatibility layer. Do not use it, it is
775exported just as a debug tool.
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778LED control
779-----------
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af116101 781procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/led
65807cc2 782sysfs attributes: as per LED class, see below for names
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783
784Some of the LED indicators can be controlled through this feature. On
785some older ThinkPad models, it is possible to query the status of the
786LED indicators as well. Newer ThinkPads cannot query the real status
787of the LED indicators.
788
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789Because misuse of the LEDs could induce an unaware user to perform
790dangerous actions (like undocking or ejecting a bay device while the
791buses are still active), or mask an important alarm (such as a nearly
792empty battery, or a broken battery), access to most LEDs is
793restricted.
794
795Unrestricted access to all LEDs requires that thinkpad-acpi be
796compiled with the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_UNSAFE_LEDS option enabled.
797Distributions must never enable this option. Individual users that
798are aware of the consequences are welcome to enabling it.
799
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800procfs notes:
801
802The available commands are:
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804 echo '<LED number> on' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
805 echo '<LED number> off' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
806 echo '<LED number> blink' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
1da177e4 807
f21179a4 808The <LED number> range is 0 to 15. The set of LEDs that can be
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809controlled varies from model to model. Here is the common ThinkPad
810mapping:
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811
812 0 - power
813 1 - battery (orange)
814 2 - battery (green)
af116101 815 3 - UltraBase/dock
1da177e4 816 4 - UltraBay
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817 5 - UltraBase battery slot
818 6 - (unknown)
1da177e4 819 7 - standby
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820 8 - dock status 1
821 9 - dock status 2
822 10, 11 - (unknown)
823 12 - thinkvantage
824 13, 14, 15 - (unknown)
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826All of the above can be turned on and off and can be made to blink.
827
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828sysfs notes:
829
65807cc2 830The ThinkPad LED sysfs interface is described in detail by the LED class
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831documentation, in Documentation/leds-class.txt.
832
f21179a4 833The LEDs are named (in LED ID order, from 0 to 12):
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834"tpacpi::power", "tpacpi:orange:batt", "tpacpi:green:batt",
835"tpacpi::dock_active", "tpacpi::bay_active", "tpacpi::dock_batt",
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836"tpacpi::unknown_led", "tpacpi::standby", "tpacpi::dock_status1",
837"tpacpi::dock_status2", "tpacpi::unknown_led2", "tpacpi::unknown_led3",
838"tpacpi::thinkvantage".
af116101 839
65807cc2 840Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the LED
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841indicators cannot be read due to an error, thinkpad-acpi will report it as
842a brightness of zero (same as LED off).
843
844If the thinkpad firmware doesn't support reading the current status,
845trying to read the current LED brightness will just return whatever
846brightness was last written to that attribute.
847
848These LEDs can blink using hardware acceleration. To request that a
849ThinkPad indicator LED should blink in hardware accelerated mode, use the
850"timer" trigger, and leave the delay_on and delay_off parameters set to
851zero (to request hardware acceleration autodetection).
852
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853LEDs that are known not to exist in a given ThinkPad model are not
854made available through the sysfs interface. If you have a dock and you
855notice there are LEDs listed for your ThinkPad that do not exist (and
856are not in the dock), or if you notice that there are missing LEDs,
857a report to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is appreciated.
858
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860ACPI sounds -- /proc/acpi/ibm/beep
861----------------------------------
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862
863The BEEP method is used internally by the ACPI firmware to provide
78f81cc4 864audible alerts in various situations. This feature allows the same
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865sounds to be triggered manually.
866
867The commands are non-negative integer numbers:
868
78f81cc4 869 echo <number> >/proc/acpi/ibm/beep
1da177e4 870
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871The valid <number> range is 0 to 17. Not all numbers trigger sounds
872and the sounds vary from model to model. Here is the behavior on the
873X40:
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875 0 - stop a sound in progress (but use 17 to stop 16)
876 2 - two beeps, pause, third beep ("low battery")
1da177e4 877 3 - single beep
78f81cc4 878 4 - high, followed by low-pitched beep ("unable")
1da177e4 879 5 - single beep
78f81cc4 880 6 - very high, followed by high-pitched beep ("AC/DC")
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881 7 - high-pitched beep
882 9 - three short beeps
883 10 - very long beep
884 12 - low-pitched beep
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885 15 - three high-pitched beeps repeating constantly, stop with 0
886 16 - one medium-pitched beep repeating constantly, stop with 17
887 17 - stop 16
888
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890Temperature sensors
891-------------------
892
893procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
7fd40029 894sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") temp*_input
78f81cc4 895
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896Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but only
897expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods. This
898feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors on older
899ThinkPads, and up to sixteen different sensors on newer ThinkPads.
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900
901For example, on the X40, a typical output may be:
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902temperatures: 42 42 45 41 36 -128 33 -128
903
3d6f99ca 904On the T43/p, a typical output may be:
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905temperatures: 48 48 36 52 38 -128 31 -128 48 52 48 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128
906
907The mapping of thermal sensors to physical locations varies depending on
908system-board model (and thus, on ThinkPad model).
909
910http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors is a public wiki page that
911tries to track down these locations for various models.
912
913Most (newer?) models seem to follow this pattern:
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914
9151: CPU
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9162: (depends on model)
9173: (depends on model)
78f81cc4 9184: GPU
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9195: Main battery: main sensor
9206: Bay battery: main sensor
9217: Main battery: secondary sensor
9228: Bay battery: secondary sensor
9239-15: (depends on model)
924
925For the R51 (source: Thomas Gruber):
9262: Mini-PCI
9273: Internal HDD
928
929For the T43, T43/p (source: Shmidoax/Thinkwiki.org)
930http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p
9312: System board, left side (near PCMCIA slot), reported as HDAPS temp
9323: PCMCIA slot
9339: MCH (northbridge) to DRAM Bus
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93410: Clock-generator, mini-pci card and ICH (southbridge), under Mini-PCI
935 card, under touchpad
60eb0b35 93611: Power regulator, underside of system board, below F2 key
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938The A31 has a very atypical layout for the thermal sensors
939(source: Milos Popovic, http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_A31)
9401: CPU
9412: Main Battery: main sensor
9423: Power Converter
9434: Bay Battery: main sensor
9445: MCH (northbridge)
9456: PCMCIA/ambient
9467: Main Battery: secondary sensor
9478: Bay Battery: secondary sensor
948
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950Procfs notes:
951 Readings from sensors that are not available return -128.
952 No commands can be written to this file.
953
954Sysfs notes:
955 Sensors that are not available return the ENXIO error. This
956 status may change at runtime, as there are hotplug thermal
957 sensors, like those inside the batteries and docks.
958
959 thinkpad-acpi thermal sensors are reported through the hwmon
960 subsystem, and follow all of the hwmon guidelines at
961 Documentation/hwmon.
962
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963EXPERIMENTAL: Embedded controller register dump
964-----------------------------------------------
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966This feature is not included in the thinkpad driver anymore.
967Instead the EC can be accessed through /sys/kernel/debug/ec with
968a userspace tool which can be found here:
969ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/trenn/sources/ec
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971Use it to determine the register holding the fan
972speed on some models. To do that, do the following:
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973 - make sure the battery is fully charged
974 - make sure the fan is running
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975 - use above mentioned tool to read out the EC
976
977Often fan and temperature values vary between
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978readings. Since temperatures don't change vary fast, you can take
979several quick dumps to eliminate them.
980
981You can use a similar method to figure out the meaning of other
982embedded controller registers - e.g. make sure nothing else changes
983except the charging or discharging battery to determine which
984registers contain the current battery capacity, etc. If you experiment
985with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with
986a description of the conditions when they were taken.)
987
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989LCD brightness control
990----------------------
991
992procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
993sysfs backlight device "thinkpad_screen"
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994
995This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad
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996models which don't have a hardware brightness slider.
997
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998It has some limitations: the LCD backlight cannot be actually turned
999on or off by this interface, it just controls the backlight brightness
1000level.
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1001
1002On IBM (and some of the earlier Lenovo) ThinkPads, the backlight control
1003has eight brightness levels, ranging from 0 to 7. Some of the levels
1004may not be distinct. Later Lenovo models that implement the ACPI
1005display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging
1006from 0 to 15.
1007
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1008For IBM ThinkPads, there are two interfaces to the firmware for direct
1009brightness control, EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be
1010used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects
1011EC mode, brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC
1012mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered across
1013shutdown/reboot).
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1014
1015The driver tries to select which interface to use from a table of
1016defaults for each ThinkPad model. If it makes a wrong choice, please
1017report this as a bug, so that we can fix it.
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1019Lenovo ThinkPads only support brightness_mode=2 (UCMS).
1020
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1021When display backlight brightness controls are available through the
1022standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct
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1023ThinkPad-specific interface. The driver will disable its native
1024backlight brightness control interface if it detects that the standard
1025ACPI interface is available in the ThinkPad.
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1027If you want to use the thinkpad-acpi backlight brightness control
1028instead of the generic ACPI video backlight brightness control for some
1029reason, you should use the acpi_backlight=vendor kernel parameter.
1030
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1031The brightness_enable module parameter can be used to control whether
1032the LCD brightness control feature will be enabled when available.
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1033brightness_enable=0 forces it to be disabled. brightness_enable=1
1034forces it to be enabled when available, even if the standard ACPI
1035interface is also available.
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1037Procfs notes:
1038
1039 The available commands are:
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1040
1041 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1042 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1043 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1044
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1045Sysfs notes:
1046
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1047The interface is implemented through the backlight sysfs class, which is
1048poorly documented at this time.
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1050Locate the thinkpad_screen device under /sys/class/backlight, and inside
1051it there will be the following attributes:
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1052
1053 max_brightness:
1054 Reads the maximum brightness the hardware can be set to.
1055 The minimum is always zero.
1056
1057 actual_brightness:
1058 Reads what brightness the screen is set to at this instant.
1059
1060 brightness:
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1061 Writes request the driver to change brightness to the
1062 given value. Reads will tell you what brightness the
1063 driver is trying to set the display to when "power" is set
1064 to zero and the display has not been dimmed by a kernel
1065 power management event.
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1066
1067 power:
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1068 power management mode, where 0 is "display on", and 1 to 3
1069 will dim the display backlight to brightness level 0
1070 because thinkpad-acpi cannot really turn the backlight
1071 off. Kernel power management events can temporarily
1072 increase the current power management level, i.e. they can
1073 dim the display.
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1076WARNING:
1077
1078 Whatever you do, do NOT ever call thinkpad-acpi backlight-level change
1079 interface and the ACPI-based backlight level change interface
1080 (available on newer BIOSes, and driven by the Linux ACPI video driver)
1081 at the same time. The two will interact in bad ways, do funny things,
1082 and maybe reduce the life of the backlight lamps by needlessly kicking
1083 its level up and down at every change.
1084
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1086Volume control (Console Audio control)
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1088
1089procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/volume
0d204c34 1090ALSA: "ThinkPad Console Audio Control", default ID: "ThinkPadEC"
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1092NOTE: by default, the volume control interface operates in read-only
1093mode, as it is supposed to be used for on-screen-display purposes.
1094The read/write mode can be enabled through the use of the
1095"volume_control=1" module parameter.
1096
1097NOTE: distros are urged to not enable volume_control by default, this
1098should be done by the local admin only. The ThinkPad UI is for the
1099console audio control to be done through the volume keys only, and for
1100the desktop environment to just provide on-screen-display feedback.
1101Software volume control should be done only in the main AC97/HDA
1102mixer.
1103
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1105About the ThinkPad Console Audio control:
1106
1107ThinkPads have a built-in amplifier and muting circuit that drives the
1108console headphone and speakers. This circuit is after the main AC97
1109or HDA mixer in the audio path, and under exclusive control of the
1110firmware.
1111
1112ThinkPads have three special hotkeys to interact with the console
1113audio control: volume up, volume down and mute.
1114
1115It is worth noting that the normal way the mute function works (on
1116ThinkPads that do not have a "mute LED") is:
1117
11181. Press mute to mute. It will *always* mute, you can press it as
1119 many times as you want, and the sound will remain mute.
1120
11212. Press either volume key to unmute the ThinkPad (it will _not_
1122 change the volume, it will just unmute).
1123
1124This is a very superior design when compared to the cheap software-only
1125mute-toggle solution found on normal consumer laptops: you can be
1126absolutely sure the ThinkPad will not make noise if you press the mute
1127button, no matter the previous state.
1128
1129The IBM ThinkPads, and the earlier Lenovo ThinkPads have variable-gain
1130amplifiers driving the speakers and headphone output, and the firmware
1131also handles volume control for the headphone and speakers on these
1132ThinkPads without any help from the operating system (this volume
1133control stage exists after the main AC97 or HDA mixer in the audio
1134path).
1135
1136The newer Lenovo models only have firmware mute control, and depend on
1137the main HDA mixer to do volume control (which is done by the operating
1138system). In this case, the volume keys are filtered out for unmute
1139key press (there are some firmware bugs in this area) and delivered as
1140normal key presses to the operating system (thinkpad-acpi is not
1141involved).
1142
1143
1144The ThinkPad-ACPI volume control:
1145
1146The preferred way to interact with the Console Audio control is the
1147ALSA interface.
1148
1149The legacy procfs interface allows one to read the current state,
1150and if volume control is enabled, accepts the following commands:
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1151
1152 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1153 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1154 echo mute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
a112ceee 1155 echo unmute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
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1156 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1157
329e4e18 1158The <level> number range is 0 to 14 although not all of them may be
169220f8 1159distinct. To unmute the volume after the mute command, use either the
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1160up or down command (the level command will not unmute the volume), or
1161the unmute command.
1162
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1163You can use the volume_capabilities parameter to tell the driver
1164whether your thinkpad has volume control or mute-only control:
1165volume_capabilities=1 for mixers with mute and volume control,
1166volume_capabilities=2 for mixers with only mute control.
1167
1168If the driver misdetects the capabilities for your ThinkPad model,
1169please report this to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, so that we
1170can update the driver.
1171
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1172There are two strategies for volume control. To select which one
1173should be used, use the volume_mode module parameter: volume_mode=1
1174selects EC mode, and volume_mode=3 selects EC mode with NVRAM backing
1175(so that volume/mute changes are remembered across shutdown/reboot).
1176
1177The driver will operate in volume_mode=3 by default. If that does not
1178work well on your ThinkPad model, please report this to
1179ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
1180
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1181The driver supports the standard ALSA module parameters. If the ALSA
1182mixer is disabled, the driver will disable all volume functionality.
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1183
1184
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1185Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
1186---------------------------------------------------------
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1187
1188procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
7fd40029 1189sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") fan1_input, pwm1,
d7377247 1190 pwm1_enable, fan2_input
7fd40029 1191sysfs hwmon driver attributes: fan_watchdog
78f81cc4 1192
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1193NOTE NOTE NOTE: fan control operations are disabled by default for
1194safety reasons. To enable them, the module parameter "fan_control=1"
1195must be given to thinkpad-acpi.
78f81cc4 1196
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1197This feature attempts to show the current fan speed, control mode and
1198other fan data that might be available. The speed is read directly
1199from the hardware registers of the embedded controller. This is known
ecf2a80a 1200to work on later R, T, X and Z series ThinkPads but may show a bogus
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1201value on other models.
1202
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1203Some Lenovo ThinkPads support a secondary fan. This fan cannot be
1204controlled separately, it shares the main fan control.
1205
fe98a52c 1206Fan levels:
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1208Most ThinkPad fans work in "levels" at the firmware interface. Level 0
1209stops the fan. The higher the level, the higher the fan speed, although
1210adjacent levels often map to the same fan speed. 7 is the highest
1211level, where the fan reaches the maximum recommended speed.
78f81cc4 1212
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1213Level "auto" means the EC changes the fan level according to some
1214internal algorithm, usually based on readings from the thermal sensors.
78f81cc4 1215
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1216There is also a "full-speed" level, also known as "disengaged" level.
1217In this level, the EC disables the speed-locked closed-loop fan control,
1218and drives the fan as fast as it can go, which might exceed hardware
1219limits, so use this level with caution.
78f81cc4 1220
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1221The fan usually ramps up or down slowly from one speed to another, and
1222it is normal for the EC to take several seconds to react to fan
1223commands. The full-speed level may take up to two minutes to ramp up to
1224maximum speed, and in some ThinkPads, the tachometer readings go stale
1225while the EC is transitioning to the full-speed level.
a12095c2 1226
78f81cc4 1227WARNING WARNING WARNING: do not leave the fan disabled unless you are
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1228monitoring all of the temperature sensor readings and you are ready to
1229enable it if necessary to avoid overheating.
1230
1231An enabled fan in level "auto" may stop spinning if the EC decides the
1232ThinkPad is cool enough and doesn't need the extra airflow. This is
01dd2fbf 1233normal, and the EC will spin the fan up if the various thermal readings
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1234rise too much.
1235
1236On the X40, this seems to depend on the CPU and HDD temperatures.
1237Specifically, the fan is turned on when either the CPU temperature
1238climbs to 56 degrees or the HDD temperature climbs to 46 degrees. The
1239fan is turned off when the CPU temperature drops to 49 degrees and the
1240HDD temperature drops to 41 degrees. These thresholds cannot
1241currently be controlled.
1242
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1243The ThinkPad's ACPI DSDT code will reprogram the fan on its own when
1244certain conditions are met. It will override any fan programming done
1245through thinkpad-acpi.
1246
1247The thinkpad-acpi kernel driver can be programmed to revert the fan
1248level to a safe setting if userspace does not issue one of the procfs
1249fan commands: "enable", "disable", "level" or "watchdog", or if there
1250are no writes to pwm1_enable (or to pwm1 *if and only if* pwm1_enable is
1251set to 1, manual mode) within a configurable amount of time of up to
1252120 seconds. This functionality is called fan safety watchdog.
1253
1254Note that the watchdog timer stops after it enables the fan. It will be
1255rearmed again automatically (using the same interval) when one of the
1256above mentioned fan commands is received. The fan watchdog is,
1257therefore, not suitable to protect against fan mode changes made through
1258means other than the "enable", "disable", and "level" procfs fan
1259commands, or the hwmon fan control sysfs interface.
1260
1261Procfs notes:
1262
1263The fan may be enabled or disabled with the following commands:
1264
1265 echo enable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1266 echo disable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1267
1268Placing a fan on level 0 is the same as disabling it. Enabling a fan
1269will try to place it in a safe level if it is too slow or disabled.
1270
a12095c2 1271The fan level can be controlled with the command:
78f81cc4 1272
fe98a52c 1273 echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
a12095c2 1274
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1275Where <level> is an integer from 0 to 7, or one of the words "auto" or
1276"full-speed" (without the quotes). Not all ThinkPads support the "auto"
1277and "full-speed" levels. The driver accepts "disengaged" as an alias for
1278"full-speed", and reports it as "disengaged" for backwards
1279compatibility.
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1280
1281On the X31 and X40 (and ONLY on those models), the fan speed can be
fe98a52c 1282controlled to a certain degree. Once the fan is running, it can be
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1283forced to run faster or slower with the following command:
1284
fe98a52c 1285 echo 'speed <speed>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
78f81cc4 1286
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1287The sustainable range of fan speeds on the X40 appears to be from about
12883700 to about 7350. Values outside this range either do not have any
1289effect or the fan speed eventually settles somewhere in that range. The
1290fan cannot be stopped or started with this command. This functionality
1291is incomplete, and not available through the sysfs interface.
78f81cc4 1292
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1293To program the safety watchdog, use the "watchdog" command.
1294
1295 echo 'watchdog <interval in seconds>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1296
1297If you want to disable the watchdog, use 0 as the interval.
1298
1299Sysfs notes:
1300
1301The sysfs interface follows the hwmon subsystem guidelines for the most
1302part, and the exception is the fan safety watchdog.
1303
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1304Writes to any of the sysfs attributes may return the EINVAL error if
1305that operation is not supported in a given ThinkPad or if the parameter
1306is out-of-bounds, and EPERM if it is forbidden. They may also return
1307EINTR (interrupted system call), and EIO (I/O error while trying to talk
1308to the firmware).
1309
1310Features not yet implemented by the driver return ENOSYS.
1311
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1312hwmon device attribute pwm1_enable:
1313 0: PWM offline (fan is set to full-speed mode)
1314 1: Manual PWM control (use pwm1 to set fan level)
1315 2: Hardware PWM control (EC "auto" mode)
1316 3: reserved (Software PWM control, not implemented yet)
1317
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1318 Modes 0 and 2 are not supported by all ThinkPads, and the
1319 driver is not always able to detect this. If it does know a
1320 mode is unsupported, it will return -EINVAL.
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1321
1322hwmon device attribute pwm1:
1323 Fan level, scaled from the firmware values of 0-7 to the hwmon
1324 scale of 0-255. 0 means fan stopped, 255 means highest normal
1325 speed (level 7).
1326
1327 This attribute only commands the fan if pmw1_enable is set to 1
1328 (manual PWM control).
1329
1330hwmon device attribute fan1_input:
1331 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM. May go stale on certain
1332 ThinkPads while the EC transitions the PWM to offline mode,
1333 which can take up to two minutes. May return rubbish on older
1334 ThinkPads.
1335
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1336hwmon device attribute fan2_input:
1337 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM, for the secondary fan.
1338 Available only on some ThinkPads. If the secondary fan is
1339 not installed, will always read 0.
1340
7fd40029 1341hwmon driver attribute fan_watchdog:
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1342 Fan safety watchdog timer interval, in seconds. Minimum is
1343 1 second, maximum is 120 seconds. 0 disables the watchdog.
1344
1345To stop the fan: set pwm1 to zero, and pwm1_enable to 1.
1346
1347To start the fan in a safe mode: set pwm1_enable to 2. If that fails
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1348with EINVAL, try to set pwm1_enable to 1 and pwm1 to at least 128 (255
1349would be the safest choice, though).
1da177e4 1350
38f996ed 1351
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1352WAN
1353---
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1354
1355procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
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1356sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable (deprecated)
1357sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw"
28b779d1 1358
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1359This feature shows the presence and current state of the built-in
1360Wireless WAN device.
1361
1362If the ThinkPad supports it, the WWAN state is stored in NVRAM,
1363so it is kept across reboots and power-off.
d3a6ade4 1364
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1365It was tested on a Lenovo ThinkPad X60. It should probably work on other
1366ThinkPad models which come with this module installed.
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1367
1368Procfs notes:
1369
1370If the W-WAN card is installed, the following commands can be used:
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1371
1372 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1373 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1374
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1375Sysfs notes:
1376
1377 If the W-WAN card is installed, it can be enabled /
cc4c24e1 1378 disabled through the "wwan_enable" thinkpad-acpi device
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1379 attribute, and its current status can also be queried.
1380
1381 enable:
1382 0: disables WWAN card / WWAN card is disabled
1383 1: enables WWAN card / WWAN card is enabled.
1384
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1385 Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill
1386 class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year
1387 2010.
1388
1389 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw": refer to
1390 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
1da177e4 1391
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1393EXPERIMENTAL: UWB
1394-----------------
1395
1396This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because it has not been extensively
1397tested and validated in various ThinkPad models yet. The feature may not
1398work as expected. USE WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply
1399the experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
1400
1401sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw"
1402
1403This feature exports an rfkill controller for the UWB device, if one is
1404present and enabled in the BIOS.
1405
1406Sysfs notes:
1407
1408 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw": refer to
1409 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
1410
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1412Multiple Commands, Module Parameters
1413------------------------------------
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1414
1415Multiple commands can be written to the proc files in one shot by
1416separating them with commas, for example:
1417
1418 echo enable,0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
1419 echo lcd_disable,crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
1420
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1421Commands can also be specified when loading the thinkpad-acpi module,
1422for example:
1da177e4 1423
643f12db 1424 modprobe thinkpad_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff video=auto_disable
1da177e4 1425
078ac19e 1426
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1427Enabling debugging output
1428-------------------------
1429
0f035b8e 1430The module takes a debug parameter which can be used to selectively
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1431enable various classes of debugging output, for example:
1432
5f24927f 1433 modprobe thinkpad_acpi debug=0xffff
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1434
1435will enable all debugging output classes. It takes a bitmask, so
1436to enable more than one output class, just add their values.
1437
fe08bc4b 1438 Debug bitmask Description
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1439 0x8000 Disclose PID of userspace programs
1440 accessing some functions of the driver
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1441 0x0001 Initialization and probing
1442 0x0002 Removal
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1443 0x0004 RF Transmitter control (RFKILL)
1444 (bluetooth, WWAN, UWB...)
56e2c200 1445 0x0008 HKEY event interface, hotkeys
74a60c0f 1446 0x0010 Fan control
0e501834 1447 0x0020 Backlight brightness
329e4e18 1448 0x0040 Audio mixer/volume control
fe08bc4b 1449
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1450There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging
1451information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems.
0dcef77c 1452
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1453The level of debugging information output by the driver can be changed
1454at runtime through sysfs, using the driver attribute debug_level. The
1455attribute takes the same bitmask as the debug module parameter above.
1456
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1458Force loading of module
1459-----------------------
1460
1461If thinkpad-acpi refuses to detect your ThinkPad, you can try to specify
1462the module parameter force_load=1. Regardless of whether this works or
1463not, please contact ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net with a report.
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1464
1465
1466Sysfs interface changelog:
1467
14680x000100: Initial sysfs support, as a single platform driver and
1469 device.
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14700x000200: Hot key support for 32 hot keys, and radio slider switch
1471 support.
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14720x010000: Hot keys are now handled by default over the input
1473 layer, the radio switch generates input event EV_RADIO,
1474 and the driver enables hot key handling by default in
1475 the firmware.
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1476
14770x020000: ABI fix: added a separate hwmon platform device and
1478 driver, which must be located by name (thinkpad)
1479 and the hwmon class for libsensors4 (lm-sensors 3)
1480 compatibility. Moved all hwmon attributes to this
1481 new platform device.
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1482
14830x020100: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
1484 support. If you must, use it to know you should not
0211a9c8 1485 start a userspace NVRAM poller (allows to detect when
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1486 NVRAM is compiled out by the user because it is
1487 unneeded/undesired in the first place).
14880x020101: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
d0788cfb 1489 and proper hotkey_mask semantics (version 8 of the
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1490 NVRAM polling patch). Some development snapshots of
1491 0.18 had an earlier version that did strange things
1492 to hotkey_mask.
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1493
14940x020200: Add poll()/select() support to the following attributes:
1495 hotkey_radio_sw, wakeup_hotunplug_complete, wakeup_reason
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1496
14970x020300: hotkey enable/disable support removed, attributes
1498 hotkey_bios_enabled and hotkey_enable deprecated and
1499 marked for removal.
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1500
15010x020400: Marker for 16 LEDs support. Also, LEDs that are known
1502 to not exist in a given model are not registered with
1503 the LED sysfs class anymore.
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1504
15050x020500: Updated hotkey driver, hotkey_mask is always available
1506 and it is always able to disable hot keys. Very old
1507 thinkpads are properly supported. hotkey_bios_mask
1508 is deprecated and marked for removal.
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1509
15100x020600: Marker for backlight change event support.
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1511
15120x020700: Support for mute-only mixers.
c7ac6291 1513 Volume control in read-only mode by default.
0d204c34 1514 Marker for ALSA mixer support.