On Wed, 05 Nov 2008, Chris Jones wrote: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > When the BIOS turns the thinkvantage LED on, is it brighter than when you > > did echo 0x0c 0x8d >/proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump ? > > Unscientifically, yes I think so. It's more like the brightness when I > put it in the blinking mode. When I just set it to "on" I almost had to > cup my hand over the button to see the light at all. Switching it to > "blink" was noticably brighter. Ok, that means standard LED control is pretty much useless for that LED except for off and blinking. I will have to wait for someone to test the extra bits, then, because I can't provide a LED interface where ON is not working well. BTW, given the above clues that the LED has brightness control, testing these extra bits on the thinkvantage LED is probably safe. I *cannot* be really sure it IS safe, but the hints are there that these bits are required to use the thinkvantage LED, and the ACPI method to control it certainly makes that clear. It just doesn't tell me what the bits do. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
