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643f12db 1 ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver
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3 Version 0.23
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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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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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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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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
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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:
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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.
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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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293 Warning: when in NVRAM mode, the volume up/down/mute
294 keys are synthesized according to changes in the mixer,
295 so you have to use volume up or volume down to unmute,
296 as per the ThinkPad volume mixer user interface. When
297 in ACPI event mode, volume up/down/mute are reported as
298 separate events, but this behaviour may be corrected in
299 future releases of this driver, in which case the
d0788cfb 300 ThinkPad volume mixer user interface semantics will be
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301 enforced.
302
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
312 Setting hotkey_poll_freq too low will cause repeated
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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401 Lenovo: Screen lock
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4030x1003 0x02 FN+F3 Many IBM models always report
404 this hot key, even with hot keys
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405 disabled or with Fn+F3 masked
406 off
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407 IBM: screen lock
408 Lenovo: battery
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4100x1004 0x03 FN+F4 Sleep button (ACPI sleep button
d0788cfb 411 semantics, i.e. sleep-to-RAM).
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412 It is always generate some kind
413 of event, either the hot key
414 event or a ACPI sleep button
415 event. The firmware may
416 refuse to generate further FN+F4
417 key presses until a S3 or S4 ACPI
418 sleep cycle is performed or some
419 time passes.
420
4210x1005 0x04 FN+F5 Radio. Enables/disables
d0788cfb 422 the internal Bluetooth hardware
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423 and W-WAN card if left in control
424 of the firmware. Does not affect
425 the WLAN card.
edf0e0e5 426 Should be used to turn on/off all
d0788cfb 427 radios (Bluetooth+W-WAN+WLAN),
edf0e0e5 428 really.
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429
4300x1006 0x05 FN+F6 -
431
4320x1007 0x06 FN+F7 Video output cycle.
433 Do you feel lucky today?
434
edf0e0e5 4350x1008 0x07 FN+F8 IBM: toggle screen expand
d0788cfb 436 Lenovo: configure UltraNav
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4380x1009 0x08 FN+F9 -
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439 .. .. ..
4400x100B 0x0A FN+F11 -
441
4420x100C 0x0B FN+F12 Sleep to disk. You are always
443 supposed to handle it yourself,
444 either through the ACPI event,
445 or through a hotkey event.
446 The firmware may refuse to
447 generate further FN+F4 key
448 press events until a S3 or S4
449 ACPI sleep cycle is performed,
450 or some time passes.
451
4520x100D 0x0C FN+BACKSPACE -
4530x100E 0x0D FN+INSERT -
4540x100F 0x0E FN+DELETE -
455
4560x1010 0x0F FN+HOME Brightness up. This key is
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457 always handled by the firmware
458 in IBM ThinkPads, even when
459 unmasked. Just leave it alone.
460 For Lenovo ThinkPads with a new
461 BIOS, it has to be handled either
462 by the ACPI OSI, or by userspace.
4630x1011 0x10 FN+END Brightness down. See brightness
464 up for details.
465
d0788cfb 4660x1012 0x11 FN+PGUP ThinkLight toggle. This key is
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467 always handled by the firmware,
468 even when unmasked.
469
4700x1013 0x12 FN+PGDOWN -
471
4720x1014 0x13 FN+SPACE Zoom key
473
4740x1015 0x14 VOLUME UP Internal mixer volume up. This
475 key is always handled by the
476 firmware, even when unmasked.
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477 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing
478 this.
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4790x1016 0x15 VOLUME DOWN 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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4840x1017 0x16 MUTE Mute internal mixer. This
485 key is always handled by the
486 firmware, even when unmasked.
487
d0788cfb 4880x1018 0x17 THINKPAD ThinkPad/Access IBM/Lenovo key
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489
4900x1019 0x18 unknown
491.. .. ..
4920x1020 0x1F unknown
493
494The ThinkPad firmware does not allow one to differentiate when most hot
495keys are pressed or released (either that, or we don't know how to, yet).
496For these keys, the driver generates a set of events for a key press and
497immediately issues the same set of events for a key release. It is
498unknown by the driver if the ThinkPad firmware triggered these events on
499hot key press or release, but the firmware will do it for either one, not
500both.
501
ff80f137 502If a key is mapped to KEY_RESERVED, it generates no input events at all.
6a38abbf 503If a key is mapped to KEY_UNKNOWN, it generates an input event that
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504includes an scan code. If a key is mapped to anything else, it will
505generate input device EV_KEY events.
6a38abbf 506
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507In addition to the EV_KEY events, thinkpad-acpi may also issue EV_SW
508events for switches:
509
19f59460 510SW_RFKILL_ALL T60 and later hardware rfkill rocker switch
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511SW_TABLET_MODE Tablet ThinkPads HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A
512
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513Non hot-key ACPI HKEY event map:
5140x5001 Lid closed
5150x5002 Lid opened
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5160x5009 Tablet swivel: switched to tablet mode
5170x500A Tablet swivel: switched to normal mode
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5180x7000 Radio Switch may have changed state
519
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520The above events are not propagated by the driver, except for legacy
521compatibility purposes when hotkey_report_mode is set to 1.
522
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5230x2304 System is waking up from suspend to undock
5240x2305 System is waking up from suspend to eject bay
5250x2404 System is waking up from hibernation to undock
5260x2405 System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay
176dd985 5270x5010 Brightness level changed/control event
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528
529The above events are never propagated by the driver.
530
5310x3003 Bay ejection (see 0x2x05) complete, can sleep again
5320x4003 Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again
d0788cfb 5330x500B Tablet pen inserted into its storage bay
d1edb2b5 5340x500C Tablet pen removed from its storage bay
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535
536The above events are propagated by the driver.
537
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538Compatibility notes:
539
540ibm-acpi and thinkpad-acpi 0.15 (mainline kernels before 2.6.23) never
541supported the input layer, and sent events over the procfs ACPI event
542interface.
543
544To avoid sending duplicate events over the input layer and the ACPI
545event interface, thinkpad-acpi 0.16 implements a module parameter
546(hotkey_report_mode), and also a sysfs device attribute with the same
547name.
548
549Make no mistake here: userspace is expected to switch to using the input
550layer interface of thinkpad-acpi, together with the ACPI netlink event
551interface in kernels 2.6.23 and later, or with the ACPI procfs event
552interface in kernels 2.6.22 and earlier.
553
554If no hotkey_report_mode module parameter is specified (or it is set to
555zero), the driver defaults to mode 1 (see below), and on kernels 2.6.22
556and earlier, also allows one to change the hotkey_report_mode through
557sysfs. In kernels 2.6.23 and later, where the netlink ACPI event
558interface is available, hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed through
559sysfs (it is read-only).
560
561If the hotkey_report_mode module parameter is set to 1 or 2, it cannot
562be changed later through sysfs (any writes will return -EPERM to signal
563that hotkey_report_mode was locked. On 2.6.23 and later, where
d0788cfb 564hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed at all, writes will return -EACCES).
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565
566hotkey_report_mode set to 1 makes the driver export through the procfs
567ACPI event interface all hot key presses (which are *also* sent to the
568input layer). This is a legacy compatibility behaviour, and it is also
569the default mode of operation for the driver.
570
571hotkey_report_mode set to 2 makes the driver filter out the hot key
572presses from the procfs ACPI event interface, so these events will only
573be sent through the input layer. Userspace that has been updated to use
574the thinkpad-acpi input layer interface should set hotkey_report_mode to
5752.
576
577Hot key press events are never sent to the ACPI netlink event interface.
578Really up-to-date userspace under kernel 2.6.23 and later is to use the
579netlink interface and the input layer interface, and don't bother at all
580with hotkey_report_mode.
581
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583Brightness hotkey notes:
584
585These are the current sane choices for brightness key mapping in
586thinkpad-acpi:
587
588For IBM and Lenovo models *without* ACPI backlight control (the ones on
589which thinkpad-acpi will autoload its backlight interface by default,
590and on which ACPI video does not export a backlight interface):
591
5921. Don't enable or map the brightness hotkeys in thinkpad-acpi, as
593 these older firmware versions unfortunately won't respect the hotkey
594 mask for brightness keys anyway, and always reacts to them. This
595 usually work fine, unless X.org drivers are doing something to block
596 the BIOS. In that case, use (3) below. This is the default mode of
597 operation.
598
5992. Enable the hotkeys, but map them to something else that is NOT
600 KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP/DOWN or any other keycode that would cause
601 userspace to try to change the backlight level, and use that as an
602 on-screen-display hint.
603
6043. IF AND ONLY IF X.org drivers find a way to block the firmware from
605 automatically changing the brightness, enable the hotkeys and map
606 them to KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN, and feed that to
607 something that calls xbacklight. thinkpad-acpi will not be able to
608 change brightness in that case either, so you should disable its
609 backlight interface.
610
611For Lenovo models *with* ACPI backlight control:
612
6131. Load up ACPI video and use that. ACPI video will report ACPI
614 events for brightness change keys. Do not mess with thinkpad-acpi
615 defaults in this case. thinkpad-acpi should not have anything to do
616 with backlight events in a scenario where ACPI video is loaded:
617 brightness hotkeys must be disabled, and the backlight interface is
618 to be kept disabled as well. This is the default mode of operation.
619
6202. Do *NOT* load up ACPI video, enable the hotkeys in thinkpad-acpi,
621 and map them to KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN. Process
622 these keys on userspace somehow (e.g. by calling xbacklight).
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623 The driver will do this automatically if it detects that ACPI video
624 has been disabled.
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627Bluetooth
628---------
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d3a6ade4 630procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
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631sysfs device attribute: bluetooth_enable (deprecated)
632sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw"
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633
634This feature shows the presence and current state of a ThinkPad
635Bluetooth device in the internal ThinkPad CDC slot.
636
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637If the ThinkPad supports it, the Bluetooth state is stored in NVRAM,
638so it is kept across reboots and power-off.
639
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640Procfs notes:
641
642If Bluetooth is installed, the following commands can be used:
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643
644 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
645 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
646
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647Sysfs notes:
648
649 If the Bluetooth CDC card is installed, it can be enabled /
cc4c24e1 650 disabled through the "bluetooth_enable" thinkpad-acpi device
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651 attribute, and its current status can also be queried.
652
653 enable:
654 0: disables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is disabled
655 1: enables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is enabled.
656
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657 Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill
658 class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year
659 2010.
660
661 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw": refer to
662 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
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665Video output control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/video
666--------------------------------------------
667
668This feature allows control over the devices used for video output -
669LCD, CRT or DVI (if available). The following commands are available:
670
671 echo lcd_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
672 echo lcd_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
673 echo crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
674 echo crt_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
675 echo dvi_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
676 echo dvi_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
677 echo auto_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
678 echo auto_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
679 echo expand_toggle > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
680 echo video_switch > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
681
682Each video output device can be enabled or disabled individually.
683Reading /proc/acpi/ibm/video shows the status of each device.
684
685Automatic video switching can be enabled or disabled. When automatic
686video switching is enabled, certain events (e.g. opening the lid,
687docking or undocking) cause the video output device to change
688automatically. While this can be useful, it also causes flickering
689and, on the X40, video corruption. By disabling automatic switching,
690the flickering or video corruption can be avoided.
691
692The video_switch command cycles through the available video outputs
78f81cc4 693(it simulates the behavior of Fn-F7).
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694
695Video expansion can be toggled through this feature. This controls
696whether the display is expanded to fill the entire LCD screen when a
697mode with less than full resolution is used. Note that the current
698video expansion status cannot be determined through this feature.
699
700Note that on many models (particularly those using Radeon graphics
701chips) the X driver configures the video card in a way which prevents
702Fn-F7 from working. This also disables the video output switching
703features of this driver, as it uses the same ACPI methods as
704Fn-F7. Video switching on the console should still work.
705
078ac19e 706UPDATE: refer to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000
78f81cc4 707
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709ThinkLight control
710------------------
711
712procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/light
65807cc2 713sysfs attributes: as per LED class, for the "tpacpi::thinklight" LED
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714
715procfs notes:
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717The ThinkLight status can be read and set through the procfs interface. A
718few models which do not make the status available will show the ThinkLight
719status as "unknown". The available commands are:
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720
721 echo on > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
722 echo off > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
723
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724sysfs notes:
725
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726The ThinkLight sysfs interface is documented by the LED class
727documentation, in Documentation/leds-class.txt. The ThinkLight LED name
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728is "tpacpi::thinklight".
729
078ac19e 730Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the ThinkLight
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731cannot be read or if it is unknown, thinkpad-acpi will report it as "off".
732It is impossible to know if the status returned through sysfs is valid.
733
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735CMOS/UCMS control
736-----------------
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737
738procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/cmos
739sysfs device attribute: cmos_command
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741This feature is mostly used internally by the ACPI firmware to keep the legacy
742CMOS NVRAM bits in sync with the current machine state, and to record this
743state so that the ThinkPad will retain such settings across reboots.
744
745Some of these commands actually perform actions in some ThinkPad models, but
746this is expected to disappear more and more in newer models. As an example, in
747a T43 and in a X40, commands 12 and 13 still control the ThinkLight state for
748real, but commands 0 to 2 don't control the mixer anymore (they have been
749phased out) and just update the NVRAM.
1da177e4 750
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751The range of valid cmos command numbers is 0 to 21, but not all have an
752effect and the behavior varies from model to model. Here is the behavior
753on the X40 (tpb is the ThinkPad Buttons utility):
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755 0 - Related to "Volume down" key press
756 1 - Related to "Volume up" key press
757 2 - Related to "Mute on" key press
758 3 - Related to "Access IBM" key press
d0788cfb 759 4 - Related to "LCD brightness up" key press
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760 5 - Related to "LCD brightness down" key press
761 11 - Related to "toggle screen expansion" key press/function
762 12 - Related to "ThinkLight on"
763 13 - Related to "ThinkLight off"
d0788cfb 764 14 - Related to "ThinkLight" key press (toggle ThinkLight)
1da177e4 765
b616004c 766The cmos command interface is prone to firmware split-brain problems, as
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767in newer ThinkPads it is just a compatibility layer. Do not use it, it is
768exported just as a debug tool.
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771LED control
772-----------
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af116101 774procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/led
65807cc2 775sysfs attributes: as per LED class, see below for names
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776
777Some of the LED indicators can be controlled through this feature. On
778some older ThinkPad models, it is possible to query the status of the
779LED indicators as well. Newer ThinkPads cannot query the real status
780of the LED indicators.
781
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782Because misuse of the LEDs could induce an unaware user to perform
783dangerous actions (like undocking or ejecting a bay device while the
784buses are still active), or mask an important alarm (such as a nearly
785empty battery, or a broken battery), access to most LEDs is
786restricted.
787
788Unrestricted access to all LEDs requires that thinkpad-acpi be
789compiled with the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_UNSAFE_LEDS option enabled.
790Distributions must never enable this option. Individual users that
791are aware of the consequences are welcome to enabling it.
792
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793procfs notes:
794
795The available commands are:
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797 echo '<LED number> on' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
798 echo '<LED number> off' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
799 echo '<LED number> blink' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
1da177e4 800
f21179a4 801The <LED number> range is 0 to 15. The set of LEDs that can be
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802controlled varies from model to model. Here is the common ThinkPad
803mapping:
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804
805 0 - power
806 1 - battery (orange)
807 2 - battery (green)
af116101 808 3 - UltraBase/dock
1da177e4 809 4 - UltraBay
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810 5 - UltraBase battery slot
811 6 - (unknown)
1da177e4 812 7 - standby
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813 8 - dock status 1
814 9 - dock status 2
815 10, 11 - (unknown)
816 12 - thinkvantage
817 13, 14, 15 - (unknown)
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818
819All of the above can be turned on and off and can be made to blink.
820
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821sysfs notes:
822
65807cc2 823The ThinkPad LED sysfs interface is described in detail by the LED class
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824documentation, in Documentation/leds-class.txt.
825
f21179a4 826The LEDs are named (in LED ID order, from 0 to 12):
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827"tpacpi::power", "tpacpi:orange:batt", "tpacpi:green:batt",
828"tpacpi::dock_active", "tpacpi::bay_active", "tpacpi::dock_batt",
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829"tpacpi::unknown_led", "tpacpi::standby", "tpacpi::dock_status1",
830"tpacpi::dock_status2", "tpacpi::unknown_led2", "tpacpi::unknown_led3",
831"tpacpi::thinkvantage".
af116101 832
65807cc2 833Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the LED
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834indicators cannot be read due to an error, thinkpad-acpi will report it as
835a brightness of zero (same as LED off).
836
837If the thinkpad firmware doesn't support reading the current status,
838trying to read the current LED brightness will just return whatever
839brightness was last written to that attribute.
840
841These LEDs can blink using hardware acceleration. To request that a
842ThinkPad indicator LED should blink in hardware accelerated mode, use the
843"timer" trigger, and leave the delay_on and delay_off parameters set to
844zero (to request hardware acceleration autodetection).
845
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846LEDs that are known not to exist in a given ThinkPad model are not
847made available through the sysfs interface. If you have a dock and you
848notice there are LEDs listed for your ThinkPad that do not exist (and
849are not in the dock), or if you notice that there are missing LEDs,
850a report to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is appreciated.
851
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853ACPI sounds -- /proc/acpi/ibm/beep
854----------------------------------
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855
856The BEEP method is used internally by the ACPI firmware to provide
78f81cc4 857audible alerts in various situations. This feature allows the same
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858sounds to be triggered manually.
859
860The commands are non-negative integer numbers:
861
78f81cc4 862 echo <number> >/proc/acpi/ibm/beep
1da177e4 863
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864The valid <number> range is 0 to 17. Not all numbers trigger sounds
865and the sounds vary from model to model. Here is the behavior on the
866X40:
1da177e4 867
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868 0 - stop a sound in progress (but use 17 to stop 16)
869 2 - two beeps, pause, third beep ("low battery")
1da177e4 870 3 - single beep
78f81cc4 871 4 - high, followed by low-pitched beep ("unable")
1da177e4 872 5 - single beep
78f81cc4 873 6 - very high, followed by high-pitched beep ("AC/DC")
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874 7 - high-pitched beep
875 9 - three short beeps
876 10 - very long beep
877 12 - low-pitched beep
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878 15 - three high-pitched beeps repeating constantly, stop with 0
879 16 - one medium-pitched beep repeating constantly, stop with 17
880 17 - stop 16
881
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883Temperature sensors
884-------------------
885
886procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
7fd40029 887sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") temp*_input
78f81cc4 888
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889Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but only
890expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods. This
891feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors on older
892ThinkPads, and up to sixteen different sensors on newer ThinkPads.
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893
894For example, on the X40, a typical output may be:
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895temperatures: 42 42 45 41 36 -128 33 -128
896
3d6f99ca 897On the T43/p, a typical output may be:
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898temperatures: 48 48 36 52 38 -128 31 -128 48 52 48 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128
899
900The mapping of thermal sensors to physical locations varies depending on
901system-board model (and thus, on ThinkPad model).
902
903http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors is a public wiki page that
904tries to track down these locations for various models.
905
906Most (newer?) models seem to follow this pattern:
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907
9081: CPU
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9092: (depends on model)
9103: (depends on model)
78f81cc4 9114: GPU
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9125: Main battery: main sensor
9136: Bay battery: main sensor
9147: Main battery: secondary sensor
9158: Bay battery: secondary sensor
9169-15: (depends on model)
917
918For the R51 (source: Thomas Gruber):
9192: Mini-PCI
9203: Internal HDD
921
922For the T43, T43/p (source: Shmidoax/Thinkwiki.org)
923http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p
9242: System board, left side (near PCMCIA slot), reported as HDAPS temp
9253: PCMCIA slot
9269: MCH (northbridge) to DRAM Bus
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92710: Clock-generator, mini-pci card and ICH (southbridge), under Mini-PCI
928 card, under touchpad
60eb0b35 92911: Power regulator, underside of system board, below F2 key
78f81cc4 930
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931The A31 has a very atypical layout for the thermal sensors
932(source: Milos Popovic, http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_A31)
9331: CPU
9342: Main Battery: main sensor
9353: Power Converter
9364: Bay Battery: main sensor
9375: MCH (northbridge)
9386: PCMCIA/ambient
9397: Main Battery: secondary sensor
9408: Bay Battery: secondary sensor
941
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943Procfs notes:
944 Readings from sensors that are not available return -128.
945 No commands can be written to this file.
946
947Sysfs notes:
948 Sensors that are not available return the ENXIO error. This
949 status may change at runtime, as there are hotplug thermal
950 sensors, like those inside the batteries and docks.
951
952 thinkpad-acpi thermal sensors are reported through the hwmon
953 subsystem, and follow all of the hwmon guidelines at
954 Documentation/hwmon.
955
956
d6bc8ac9 957EXPERIMENTAL: Embedded controller register dump -- /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
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958------------------------------------------------------------------------
959
960This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation
961directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE
962WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the
963experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
964
965This feature dumps the values of 256 embedded controller
966registers. Values which have changed since the last time the registers
967were dumped are marked with a star:
968
837ca6dd 969[root@x40 ibm-acpi]# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
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970EC +00 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +0a +0b +0c +0d +0e +0f
971EC 0x00: a7 47 87 01 fe 96 00 08 01 00 cb 00 00 00 40 00
972EC 0x10: 00 00 ff ff f4 3c 87 09 01 ff 42 01 ff ff 0d 00
973EC 0x20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 43 00 00 80
974EC 0x30: 01 07 1a 00 30 04 00 00 *85 00 00 10 00 50 00 00
975EC 0x40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00
976EC 0x50: 00 c0 02 0d 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 *bc *02 *bc
977EC 0x60: *02 *bc *02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
978EC 0x70: 00 00 00 00 00 12 30 40 *24 *26 *2c *27 *20 80 *1f 80
979EC 0x80: 00 00 00 06 *37 *0e 03 00 00 00 0e 07 00 00 00 00
980EC 0x90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
981EC 0xa0: *ff 09 ff 09 ff ff *64 00 *00 *00 *a2 41 *ff *ff *e0 00
982EC 0xb0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
983EC 0xc0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
984EC 0xd0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
985EC 0xe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 20 49 04 24 06 55 03
986EC 0xf0: 31 55 48 54 35 38 57 57 08 2f 45 73 07 65 6c 1a
987
988This feature can be used to determine the register holding the fan
989speed on some models. To do that, do the following:
990
991 - make sure the battery is fully charged
992 - make sure the fan is running
993 - run 'cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump' several times, once per second or so
994
995The first step makes sure various charging-related values don't
996vary. The second ensures that the fan-related values do vary, since
997the fan speed fluctuates a bit. The third will (hopefully) mark the
998fan register with a star:
999
837ca6dd 1000[root@x40 ibm-acpi]# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
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1001EC +00 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +0a +0b +0c +0d +0e +0f
1002EC 0x00: a7 47 87 01 fe 96 00 08 01 00 cb 00 00 00 40 00
1003EC 0x10: 00 00 ff ff f4 3c 87 09 01 ff 42 01 ff ff 0d 00
1004EC 0x20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 43 00 00 80
1005EC 0x30: 01 07 1a 00 30 04 00 00 85 00 00 10 00 50 00 00
1006EC 0x40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00
1007EC 0x50: 00 c0 02 0d 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 bc 02 bc
1008EC 0x60: 02 bc 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1009EC 0x70: 00 00 00 00 00 12 30 40 24 27 2c 27 21 80 1f 80
1010EC 0x80: 00 00 00 06 *be 0d 03 00 00 00 0e 07 00 00 00 00
1011EC 0x90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1012EC 0xa0: ff 09 ff 09 ff ff 64 00 00 00 a2 41 ff ff e0 00
1013EC 0xb0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1014EC 0xc0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1015EC 0xd0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
1016EC 0xe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 20 49 04 24 06 55 03
1017EC 0xf0: 31 55 48 54 35 38 57 57 08 2f 45 73 07 65 6c 1a
1018
1019Another set of values that varies often is the temperature
1020readings. Since temperatures don't change vary fast, you can take
1021several quick dumps to eliminate them.
1022
1023You can use a similar method to figure out the meaning of other
1024embedded controller registers - e.g. make sure nothing else changes
1025except the charging or discharging battery to determine which
1026registers contain the current battery capacity, etc. If you experiment
1027with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with
1028a description of the conditions when they were taken.)
1029
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1031LCD brightness control
1032----------------------
1033
1034procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1035sysfs backlight device "thinkpad_screen"
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1036
1037This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad
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1038models which don't have a hardware brightness slider.
1039
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1040It has some limitations: the LCD backlight cannot be actually turned
1041on or off by this interface, it just controls the backlight brightness
1042level.
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1043
1044On IBM (and some of the earlier Lenovo) ThinkPads, the backlight control
1045has eight brightness levels, ranging from 0 to 7. Some of the levels
1046may not be distinct. Later Lenovo models that implement the ACPI
1047display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging
1048from 0 to 15.
1049
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1050For IBM ThinkPads, there are two interfaces to the firmware for direct
1051brightness control, EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be
1052used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects
1053EC mode, brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC
1054mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered across
1055shutdown/reboot).
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1056
1057The driver tries to select which interface to use from a table of
1058defaults for each ThinkPad model. If it makes a wrong choice, please
1059report this as a bug, so that we can fix it.
a3f104c0 1060
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1061Lenovo ThinkPads only support brightness_mode=2 (UCMS).
1062
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1063When display backlight brightness controls are available through the
1064standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct
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1065ThinkPad-specific interface. The driver will disable its native
1066backlight brightness control interface if it detects that the standard
1067ACPI interface is available in the ThinkPad.
24d3b774 1068
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1069The brightness_enable module parameter can be used to control whether
1070the LCD brightness control feature will be enabled when available.
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1071brightness_enable=0 forces it to be disabled. brightness_enable=1
1072forces it to be enabled when available, even if the standard ACPI
1073interface is also available.
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1075Procfs notes:
1076
1077 The available commands are:
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1078
1079 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1080 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1081 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1082
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1083Sysfs notes:
1084
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1085The interface is implemented through the backlight sysfs class, which is
1086poorly documented at this time.
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1088Locate the thinkpad_screen device under /sys/class/backlight, and inside
1089it there will be the following attributes:
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1090
1091 max_brightness:
1092 Reads the maximum brightness the hardware can be set to.
1093 The minimum is always zero.
1094
1095 actual_brightness:
1096 Reads what brightness the screen is set to at this instant.
1097
1098 brightness:
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1099 Writes request the driver to change brightness to the
1100 given value. Reads will tell you what brightness the
1101 driver is trying to set the display to when "power" is set
1102 to zero and the display has not been dimmed by a kernel
1103 power management event.
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1104
1105 power:
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1106 power management mode, where 0 is "display on", and 1 to 3
1107 will dim the display backlight to brightness level 0
1108 because thinkpad-acpi cannot really turn the backlight
1109 off. Kernel power management events can temporarily
1110 increase the current power management level, i.e. they can
1111 dim the display.
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1114WARNING:
1115
1116 Whatever you do, do NOT ever call thinkpad-acpi backlight-level change
1117 interface and the ACPI-based backlight level change interface
1118 (available on newer BIOSes, and driven by the Linux ACPI video driver)
1119 at the same time. The two will interact in bad ways, do funny things,
1120 and maybe reduce the life of the backlight lamps by needlessly kicking
1121 its level up and down at every change.
1122
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1124Volume control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/volume
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1126
1127This feature allows volume control on ThinkPad models which don't have
1128a hardware volume knob. The available commands are:
1129
1130 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1131 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1132 echo mute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1133 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1134
1135The <level> number range is 0 to 15 although not all of them may be
1136distinct. The unmute the volume after the mute command, use either the
1137up or down command (the level command will not unmute the volume).
1138The current volume level and mute state is shown in the file.
1139
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1140The ALSA mixer interface to this feature is still missing, but patches
1141to add it exist. That problem should be addressed in the not so
1142distant future.
1143
1144
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1145Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
1146---------------------------------------------------------
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1147
1148procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
7fd40029 1149sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") fan1_input, pwm1,
d7377247 1150 pwm1_enable, fan2_input
7fd40029 1151sysfs hwmon driver attributes: fan_watchdog
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1153NOTE NOTE NOTE: fan control operations are disabled by default for
1154safety reasons. To enable them, the module parameter "fan_control=1"
1155must be given to thinkpad-acpi.
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1157This feature attempts to show the current fan speed, control mode and
1158other fan data that might be available. The speed is read directly
1159from the hardware registers of the embedded controller. This is known
ecf2a80a 1160to work on later R, T, X and Z series ThinkPads but may show a bogus
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1161value on other models.
1162
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1163Some Lenovo ThinkPads support a secondary fan. This fan cannot be
1164controlled separately, it shares the main fan control.
1165
fe98a52c 1166Fan levels:
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1168Most ThinkPad fans work in "levels" at the firmware interface. Level 0
1169stops the fan. The higher the level, the higher the fan speed, although
1170adjacent levels often map to the same fan speed. 7 is the highest
1171level, where the fan reaches the maximum recommended speed.
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1173Level "auto" means the EC changes the fan level according to some
1174internal algorithm, usually based on readings from the thermal sensors.
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1176There is also a "full-speed" level, also known as "disengaged" level.
1177In this level, the EC disables the speed-locked closed-loop fan control,
1178and drives the fan as fast as it can go, which might exceed hardware
1179limits, so use this level with caution.
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1181The fan usually ramps up or down slowly from one speed to another, and
1182it is normal for the EC to take several seconds to react to fan
1183commands. The full-speed level may take up to two minutes to ramp up to
1184maximum speed, and in some ThinkPads, the tachometer readings go stale
1185while the EC is transitioning to the full-speed level.
a12095c2 1186
78f81cc4 1187WARNING WARNING WARNING: do not leave the fan disabled unless you are
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1188monitoring all of the temperature sensor readings and you are ready to
1189enable it if necessary to avoid overheating.
1190
1191An enabled fan in level "auto" may stop spinning if the EC decides the
1192ThinkPad is cool enough and doesn't need the extra airflow. This is
01dd2fbf 1193normal, and the EC will spin the fan up if the various thermal readings
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1194rise too much.
1195
1196On the X40, this seems to depend on the CPU and HDD temperatures.
1197Specifically, the fan is turned on when either the CPU temperature
1198climbs to 56 degrees or the HDD temperature climbs to 46 degrees. The
1199fan is turned off when the CPU temperature drops to 49 degrees and the
1200HDD temperature drops to 41 degrees. These thresholds cannot
1201currently be controlled.
1202
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1203The ThinkPad's ACPI DSDT code will reprogram the fan on its own when
1204certain conditions are met. It will override any fan programming done
1205through thinkpad-acpi.
1206
1207The thinkpad-acpi kernel driver can be programmed to revert the fan
1208level to a safe setting if userspace does not issue one of the procfs
1209fan commands: "enable", "disable", "level" or "watchdog", or if there
1210are no writes to pwm1_enable (or to pwm1 *if and only if* pwm1_enable is
1211set to 1, manual mode) within a configurable amount of time of up to
1212120 seconds. This functionality is called fan safety watchdog.
1213
1214Note that the watchdog timer stops after it enables the fan. It will be
1215rearmed again automatically (using the same interval) when one of the
1216above mentioned fan commands is received. The fan watchdog is,
1217therefore, not suitable to protect against fan mode changes made through
1218means other than the "enable", "disable", and "level" procfs fan
1219commands, or the hwmon fan control sysfs interface.
1220
1221Procfs notes:
1222
1223The fan may be enabled or disabled with the following commands:
1224
1225 echo enable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1226 echo disable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1227
1228Placing a fan on level 0 is the same as disabling it. Enabling a fan
1229will try to place it in a safe level if it is too slow or disabled.
1230
a12095c2 1231The fan level can be controlled with the command:
78f81cc4 1232
fe98a52c 1233 echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
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1235Where <level> is an integer from 0 to 7, or one of the words "auto" or
1236"full-speed" (without the quotes). Not all ThinkPads support the "auto"
1237and "full-speed" levels. The driver accepts "disengaged" as an alias for
1238"full-speed", and reports it as "disengaged" for backwards
1239compatibility.
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1240
1241On the X31 and X40 (and ONLY on those models), the fan speed can be
fe98a52c 1242controlled to a certain degree. Once the fan is running, it can be
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1243forced to run faster or slower with the following command:
1244
fe98a52c 1245 echo 'speed <speed>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
78f81cc4 1246
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1247The sustainable range of fan speeds on the X40 appears to be from about
12483700 to about 7350. Values outside this range either do not have any
1249effect or the fan speed eventually settles somewhere in that range. The
1250fan cannot be stopped or started with this command. This functionality
1251is incomplete, and not available through the sysfs interface.
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1253To program the safety watchdog, use the "watchdog" command.
1254
1255 echo 'watchdog <interval in seconds>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1256
1257If you want to disable the watchdog, use 0 as the interval.
1258
1259Sysfs notes:
1260
1261The sysfs interface follows the hwmon subsystem guidelines for the most
1262part, and the exception is the fan safety watchdog.
1263
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1264Writes to any of the sysfs attributes may return the EINVAL error if
1265that operation is not supported in a given ThinkPad or if the parameter
1266is out-of-bounds, and EPERM if it is forbidden. They may also return
1267EINTR (interrupted system call), and EIO (I/O error while trying to talk
1268to the firmware).
1269
1270Features not yet implemented by the driver return ENOSYS.
1271
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1272hwmon device attribute pwm1_enable:
1273 0: PWM offline (fan is set to full-speed mode)
1274 1: Manual PWM control (use pwm1 to set fan level)
1275 2: Hardware PWM control (EC "auto" mode)
1276 3: reserved (Software PWM control, not implemented yet)
1277
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1278 Modes 0 and 2 are not supported by all ThinkPads, and the
1279 driver is not always able to detect this. If it does know a
1280 mode is unsupported, it will return -EINVAL.
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1281
1282hwmon device attribute pwm1:
1283 Fan level, scaled from the firmware values of 0-7 to the hwmon
1284 scale of 0-255. 0 means fan stopped, 255 means highest normal
1285 speed (level 7).
1286
1287 This attribute only commands the fan if pmw1_enable is set to 1
1288 (manual PWM control).
1289
1290hwmon device attribute fan1_input:
1291 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM. May go stale on certain
1292 ThinkPads while the EC transitions the PWM to offline mode,
1293 which can take up to two minutes. May return rubbish on older
1294 ThinkPads.
1295
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1296hwmon device attribute fan2_input:
1297 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM, for the secondary fan.
1298 Available only on some ThinkPads. If the secondary fan is
1299 not installed, will always read 0.
1300
7fd40029 1301hwmon driver attribute fan_watchdog:
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1302 Fan safety watchdog timer interval, in seconds. Minimum is
1303 1 second, maximum is 120 seconds. 0 disables the watchdog.
1304
1305To stop the fan: set pwm1 to zero, and pwm1_enable to 1.
1306
1307To start the fan in a safe mode: set pwm1_enable to 2. If that fails
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1308with EINVAL, try to set pwm1_enable to 1 and pwm1 to at least 128 (255
1309would be the safest choice, though).
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1312WAN
1313---
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1314
1315procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
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1316sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable (deprecated)
1317sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw"
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1319This feature shows the presence and current state of the built-in
1320Wireless WAN device.
1321
1322If the ThinkPad supports it, the WWAN state is stored in NVRAM,
1323so it is kept across reboots and power-off.
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1325It was tested on a Lenovo ThinkPad X60. It should probably work on other
1326ThinkPad models which come with this module installed.
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1327
1328Procfs notes:
1329
1330If the W-WAN card is installed, the following commands can be used:
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1332 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1333 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1334
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1335Sysfs notes:
1336
1337 If the W-WAN card is installed, it can be enabled /
cc4c24e1 1338 disabled through the "wwan_enable" thinkpad-acpi device
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1339 attribute, and its current status can also be queried.
1340
1341 enable:
1342 0: disables WWAN card / WWAN card is disabled
1343 1: enables WWAN card / WWAN card is enabled.
1344
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1345 Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill
1346 class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year
1347 2010.
1348
1349 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw": refer to
1350 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
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1353EXPERIMENTAL: UWB
1354-----------------
1355
1356This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because it has not been extensively
1357tested and validated in various ThinkPad models yet. The feature may not
1358work as expected. USE WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply
1359the experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
1360
1361sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw"
1362
1363This feature exports an rfkill controller for the UWB device, if one is
1364present and enabled in the BIOS.
1365
1366Sysfs notes:
1367
1368 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw": refer to
1369 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
1370
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1372Multiple Commands, Module Parameters
1373------------------------------------
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1374
1375Multiple commands can be written to the proc files in one shot by
1376separating them with commas, for example:
1377
1378 echo enable,0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
1379 echo lcd_disable,crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
1380
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1381Commands can also be specified when loading the thinkpad-acpi module,
1382for example:
1da177e4 1383
643f12db 1384 modprobe thinkpad_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff video=auto_disable
1da177e4 1385
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1387Enabling debugging output
1388-------------------------
1389
0f035b8e 1390The module takes a debug parameter which can be used to selectively
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1391enable various classes of debugging output, for example:
1392
5f24927f 1393 modprobe thinkpad_acpi debug=0xffff
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1394
1395will enable all debugging output classes. It takes a bitmask, so
1396to enable more than one output class, just add their values.
1397
fe08bc4b 1398 Debug bitmask Description
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1399 0x8000 Disclose PID of userspace programs
1400 accessing some functions of the driver
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1401 0x0001 Initialization and probing
1402 0x0002 Removal
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1403 0x0004 RF Transmitter control (RFKILL)
1404 (bluetooth, WWAN, UWB...)
56e2c200 1405 0x0008 HKEY event interface, hotkeys
74a60c0f 1406 0x0010 Fan control
0e501834 1407 0x0020 Backlight brightness
fe08bc4b 1408
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1409There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging
1410information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems.
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1412The level of debugging information output by the driver can be changed
1413at runtime through sysfs, using the driver attribute debug_level. The
1414attribute takes the same bitmask as the debug module parameter above.
1415
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1417Force loading of module
1418-----------------------
1419
1420If thinkpad-acpi refuses to detect your ThinkPad, you can try to specify
1421the module parameter force_load=1. Regardless of whether this works or
1422not, please contact ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net with a report.
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1423
1424
1425Sysfs interface changelog:
1426
14270x000100: Initial sysfs support, as a single platform driver and
1428 device.
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14290x000200: Hot key support for 32 hot keys, and radio slider switch
1430 support.
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14310x010000: Hot keys are now handled by default over the input
1432 layer, the radio switch generates input event EV_RADIO,
1433 and the driver enables hot key handling by default in
1434 the firmware.
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1435
14360x020000: ABI fix: added a separate hwmon platform device and
1437 driver, which must be located by name (thinkpad)
1438 and the hwmon class for libsensors4 (lm-sensors 3)
1439 compatibility. Moved all hwmon attributes to this
1440 new platform device.
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1441
14420x020100: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
1443 support. If you must, use it to know you should not
0211a9c8 1444 start a userspace NVRAM poller (allows to detect when
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1445 NVRAM is compiled out by the user because it is
1446 unneeded/undesired in the first place).
14470x020101: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
d0788cfb 1448 and proper hotkey_mask semantics (version 8 of the
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1449 NVRAM polling patch). Some development snapshots of
1450 0.18 had an earlier version that did strange things
1451 to hotkey_mask.
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1452
14530x020200: Add poll()/select() support to the following attributes:
1454 hotkey_radio_sw, wakeup_hotunplug_complete, wakeup_reason
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1455
14560x020300: hotkey enable/disable support removed, attributes
1457 hotkey_bios_enabled and hotkey_enable deprecated and
1458 marked for removal.
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1459
14600x020400: Marker for 16 LEDs support. Also, LEDs that are known
1461 to not exist in a given model are not registered with
1462 the LED sysfs class anymore.
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1463
14640x020500: Updated hotkey driver, hotkey_mask is always available
1465 and it is always able to disable hot keys. Very old
1466 thinkpads are properly supported. hotkey_bios_mask
1467 is deprecated and marked for removal.
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