Karmic Koala Beta on ThinkPad T61 (continued)

Posted by cviorel on October 20, 2009 Leave a comment (0) Go to comments

After the latest updates, enabling touchpad on/off key (fn-f8) is now working. There are some annoying gdm random restarts without a trace in the logs. I suspect it’s the nvidia proprietary driver and I hope it will be fixed soon.
Here is a better approach to enable the Active Protection System in your ThinkPad:

# Install HDAPS - IBM Active Protection System Linux Driver
sudo cp /etc/modules /etc/modules_backup
sudo aptitude install tp-smapi-source
sudo module-assistant prepare tp-smapi
sudo module-assistant auto-install tp-smapi
sudo modprobe tp-smapi
sudo aptitude install hdapsd
echo 'tp-smapi' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

# Install HDAPS - IBM Active Protection System Linux Driver

sudo cp /etc/modules /etc/modules_backup

sudo aptitude install tp-smapi-source

sudo module-assistant prepare tp-smapi

sudo module-assistant auto-install tp-smapi

sudo modprobe tp-smapi

sudo aptitude install hdapsd

echo 'tp-smapi' | sudo tee -a /etc/modules