On Mon, 12 Mar 2012, Manoj Iyer wrote:
> Yes, the V series systems are listed under Ideapad series on
> Lenovo's website. I initially was looking at why the Fn+F5 hotkey
> was not reporting a key event. Looking at the bios dsdt.dsl data on
> V480 I see
>
> Device (HKEY)
> {
> Mutex (BFWM, 0x07)
> Name (INDV, Zero)
> Name (_HID, EisaId ("LEN0068"))
> Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized)
>
> and it does not have the acpi_device_id of VPC2004 like other
> ideapads that I have seen, and seemed like the HKEY could be handled
> by thinkpad_acpi module. Product version string in DMI says "Lenovo
> V480" instead of "ThinkPad" and this was not recognized by the
> thinkpad_acpi module, thus my quirk to load the module.
>
> After loading the module on the V480 I see:
>
> [14511.946260] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.24
> [14511.946262] thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
> [14511.946264] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS H5ET23WW (0.23 ), EC unknown
> [14511.946265] thinkpad_acpi: Lenovo Lenovo V480, model 14TD010
> [14511.946707] thinkpad_acpi: detected a 8-level brightness capable
> ThinkPad
> [14511.952009] thinkpad_acpi: rfkill switch tpacpi_bluetooth_sw:
> radio is unblocked
> [14511.953099] Registered led device: tpacpi::thinklight
> [14511.953156] Registered led device: tpacpi::power
> [14511.953203] Registered led device: tpacpi::standby
> [14511.953247] Registered led device: tpacpi::thinkvantage
> [14511.953262] thinkpad_acpi: Standard ACPI backlight interface
> available, not loading native one
> [14511.953420] thinkpad_acpi: Console audio control enabled, mode:
> monitor (read only)
> [14511.955196] input: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as
> /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input17
>
> Fn+F15 now reports key press event, 00000080 00001005, and it
> reported nothing before when the module was not loaded. So prior to
> loading thinkpad_acpi, /lib/udev/findkeyboards == input/event3,
> /lib/udev/keymap -i input/event3 returned no valid values for Fn+F5
> combo.
>
> I am trying to get this patched module tested on other thinkpad and
> ideapads that we have to see if there are any regression or other
> issues. So, please let me know if this something worth supporting.
Yes, it looks like it is worth supporting alright.
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