On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:10:20AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > It is not turned on when the system is booted, and Fn+F5 does nothing, > > even though the log says it is turned on. Running "xev" and pressing > > Fn+F5 gives no output. > > Try to enable bluetooth using the rfkill subsystem... > > > turns it on. However, I'd like for thinkpad-acpi to do so when the > > kernel boots, if possible. > > thinkpad-acpi tries to keep bluetooth state stored in the NVRAM. Whether it > works or not depends entirely on your thinkpad, *and* on the kernel's rfkill > subsystem (which may decide it prefers the radio to be disabled depending on > how it is configured), and your distro scripts. > > The easiest way to always have your bluetooth on at boot if it is not just > working by itself, is to add an udev rule, HAL rule, or a initscript that > tells thinkpad-acpi to turn it on using the rfkill subsystem or some of the > other ways of asking thinkpad-acpi to control the bluetooth radio. My distro has both rfkill and rfkill_input as modules in it's kernel: mingdao@jeremiah:/boot$ grep 'CONFIG_RFKILL' config-generic-2.6.29.6 CONFIG_RFKILL=m CONFIG_RFKILL_INPUT=m CONFIG_RFKILL_LEDS=y I could turn the bt radio on via "modprobe rfkill_input", so the choices were to put it in /etc/rc.d/rc.local or another option could be used with a new file > /etc/modprobe.d/rfkill.conf which did not seem to elegant to me. I always run custom kernels, so I just built them in. That solves the problem of turning the bt radio on if it's not still in NVRAM. The Fn+F5 key works in other distros on the same laptop. I didn't check why, because I want it always on. Some guys running Slackware use an acpi-handler.sh script to do this. I'll check openSUSE (the distro I ran where Fn+F5 worked) in VBox one day to see what's different. I suspect they have some script which is doing it, also. -- "Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward. But properly learned, the lesson forever changes the man." ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
