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James Knott
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 2:52 pm    Post subject: SuSE 9.2 - Thinkpad Reply with quote
In the SuSE 9.2 Control Center, there's an item called "IBM Thinkpad
Laptop", which includes a setting "Run Thinkpad KMilo plugin". Does anyone
know what this does? There's no info on this, in the help center. Also,
using IBM Thinkpad Laptop, requires /dev/nvram permissions to be set to 664
or 666, instead of the default 600. However, even though I can set this
manually, it does not stay through a reboot. I have tried adding the
command to boot.local, but it doesn't appear to work there either. Is
there any way, to make the permissions stick?

tnx jk
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Dances With Crows
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:02 pm    Post subject: Re: SuSE 9.2 - Thinkpad Reply with quote
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On Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:52:47 -0500, James Knott staggered into the Black
Sun and said:
Quote:
In the SuSE 9.2 Control Center, there's an item called "IBM Thinkpad
Laptop", which includes a setting "Run Thinkpad KMilo plugin". Does
anyone know what this does?

The kmilo ebuild for Gentoo says:

kmilo - a kded module that can be extended to support various types of
hardware input devices that exist, such as those on keyboards.

....so I'd guess that the KMilo plugin you talked about is for supporting
the special buttons and/or Synaptics touchpad on Thinkpads. This is
overkill for me since I don't have a touchpad on my A22p and the 4
special buttons are supported just fine with tpb, but you may find it
useful.

Quote:
using IBM Thinkpad Laptop requires /dev/nvram permissions to be set to
664 or 666, instead of the default 600. However, even though I can
set this manually, it does not stay through a reboot. I have tried
adding the command to boot.local, but it doesn't appear to work there
either.

/etc/init.d/boot.local is always run at boot time. So, something else
(X startup scripts? /etc/X11/xdm/something ?) is setting it back to
0600. This is definitely a SuSE-specific thing; I don't see this on my
Gentoo system.

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James Knott
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PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:40 pm    Post subject: Re: SuSE 9.2 - Thinkpad Reply with quote
Dances With Crows wrote:

Quote:
...so I'd guess that the KMilo plugin you talked about is for supporting
the special buttons and/or Synaptics touchpad on Thinkpads.  This is
overkill for me since I don't have a touchpad on my A22p and the 4
special buttons are supported just fine with tpb, but you may find it
useful.

tnx
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Klaus Petsch
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PostPosted: Thu Feb 10, 2005 9:09 pm    Post subject: Re: SuSE 9.2 - Thinkpad Reply with quote
Hi, James,

James Knott wrote:


Quote:
Also, using IBM Thinkpad Laptop, requires /dev/nvram permissions to
be set to 664
or 666, instead of the default 600. However, even though I can set
this
manually, it does not stay through a reboot. I have tried adding
the
command to boot.local, but it doesn't appear to work there either.
Is there any way, to make the permissions stick?

SuSE runs udev.
You have to change the permissions for nvram
in /etc/udev/udev.permissions.

good luck

Klaus


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