Hi all, as per your request, I am glad to report that this model works fine. If you need any more information, just let me know. As an aside, if someone knows how to update the firmware from within Linux, please let me know ;) Richard [ 10.745121] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.24 [ 10.745131] thinkpad_acpi: http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/ [ 10.745139] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 1QET73WW (2.11 ), EC 1QHT16WW-1.03 [ 10.745147] thinkpad_acpi: IBM ThinkPad X31, model 2672C8G [ 10.745155] thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: Outdated ThinkPad BIOS/EC firmware [ 10.745163] thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: This firmware may be missing critical bug fixes and/or important features [ 10.749056] thinkpad_acpi: detected a 8-level brightness capable ThinkPad [ 10.762673] Registered led device: tpacpi::thinklight [ 10.763424] Registered led device: tpacpi::power [ 10.764179] Registered led device: tpacpi::standby [ 10.766692] thinkpad_acpi: brightness: will use unverified default: brightness_mode=3 [ 10.766704] thinkpad_acpi: brightness: please report to ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx whether it works well or not on your ThinkPad [ 10.772713] thinkpad_acpi: Console audio control enabled, mode: monitor (read only) [ 10.778514] input: ThinkPad Extra Buttons as /devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/input/input7 -- Richard ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF email is sponsosred by: Try Windows Azure free for 90 days Click Here http://p.sf.net/sfu/sfd2d-msazure _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel