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1 ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver
3 Version 0.25
4 October 16th, 2013
6 Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net>
7 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
8 http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
11 This is a Linux driver for the IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptops. It
12 supports various features of these laptops which are accessible
13 through the ACPI and ACPI EC framework, but not otherwise fully
14 supported by the generic Linux ACPI drivers.
16 This driver used to be named ibm-acpi until kernel 2.6.21 and release
17 0.13-20070314. It used to be in the drivers/acpi tree, but it was
18 moved to the drivers/misc tree and renamed to thinkpad-acpi for kernel
19 2.6.22, and release 0.14. It was moved to drivers/platform/x86 for
20 kernel 2.6.29 and release 0.22.
22 The driver is named "thinkpad-acpi". In some places, like module
23 names and log messages, "thinkpad_acpi" is used because of userspace
24 issues.
26 "tpacpi" is used as a shorthand where "thinkpad-acpi" would be too
27 long due to length limitations on some Linux kernel versions.
29 Status
30 ------
32 The features currently supported are the following (see below for
33 detailed description):
35 - Fn key combinations
36 - Bluetooth enable and disable
37 - video output switching, expansion control
38 - ThinkLight on and off
39 - CMOS/UCMS control
40 - LED control
41 - ACPI sounds
42 - temperature sensors
43 - Experimental: embedded controller register dump
44 - LCD brightness control
45 - Volume control
46 - Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
47 - WAN enable and disable
48 - UWB enable and disable
50 A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web
51 site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure
52 reports, especially if they add to or correct the compatibility table.
53 Please include the following information in your report:
55 - ThinkPad model name
56 - a copy of your ACPI tables, using the "acpidump" utility
57 - a copy of the output of dmidecode, with serial numbers
58 and UUIDs masked off
59 - which driver features work and which don't
60 - the observed behavior of non-working features
62 Any other comments or patches are also more than welcome.
65 Installation
66 ------------
68 If you are compiling this driver as included in the Linux kernel
69 sources, look for the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI Kconfig option.
70 It is located on the menu path: "Device Drivers" -> "X86 Platform
71 Specific Device Drivers" -> "ThinkPad ACPI Laptop Extras".
74 Features
75 --------
77 The driver exports two different interfaces to userspace, which can be
78 used to access the features it provides. One is a legacy procfs-based
79 interface, which will be removed at some time in the future. The other
80 is a new sysfs-based interface which is not complete yet.
82 The procfs interface creates the /proc/acpi/ibm directory. There is a
83 file under that directory for each feature it supports. The procfs
84 interface is mostly frozen, and will change very little if at all: it
85 will not be extended to add any new functionality in the driver, instead
86 all new functionality will be implemented on the sysfs interface.
88 The sysfs interface tries to blend in the generic Linux sysfs subsystems
89 and classes as much as possible. Since some of these subsystems are not
90 yet ready or stabilized, it is expected that this interface will change,
91 and any and all userspace programs must deal with it.
94 Notes about the sysfs interface:
96 Unlike what was done with the procfs interface, correctness when talking
97 to the sysfs interfaces will be enforced, as will correctness in the
98 thinkpad-acpi's implementation of sysfs interfaces.
100 Also, any bugs in the thinkpad-acpi sysfs driver code or in the
101 thinkpad-acpi's implementation of the sysfs interfaces will be fixed for
102 maximum correctness, even if that means changing an interface in
103 non-compatible ways. As these interfaces mature both in the kernel and
104 in thinkpad-acpi, such changes should become quite rare.
106 Applications interfacing to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interfaces must
107 follow all sysfs guidelines and correctly process all errors (the sysfs
108 interface makes extensive use of errors). File descriptors and open /
109 close operations to the sysfs inodes must also be properly implemented.
111 The version of thinkpad-acpi's sysfs interface is exported by the driver
112 as a driver attribute (see below).
114 Sysfs driver attributes are on the driver's sysfs attribute space,
115 for 2.6.23+ this is /sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_acpi/ and
116 /sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_hwmon/
118 Sysfs device attributes are on the thinkpad_acpi device sysfs attribute
119 space, for 2.6.23+ this is /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/.
121 Sysfs device attributes for the sensors and fan are on the
122 thinkpad_hwmon device's sysfs attribute space, but you should locate it
123 looking for a hwmon device with the name attribute of "thinkpad", or
124 better yet, through libsensors.
127 Driver version
128 --------------
130 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/driver
131 sysfs driver attribute: version
133 The driver name and version. No commands can be written to this file.
136 Sysfs interface version
137 -----------------------
139 sysfs driver attribute: interface_version
141 Version 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
147 The sysfs interface version changelog for the driver can be found at the
148 end of this document. Changes to the sysfs interface done by the kernel
149 subsystems are not documented here, nor are they tracked by this
150 attribute.
152 Changes to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface are only considered
153 non-experimental when they are submitted to Linux mainline, at which
154 point the changes in this interface are documented and interface_version
155 may be updated. If you are using any thinkpad-acpi features not yet
156 sent to mainline for merging, you do so on your own risk: these features
157 may disappear, or be implemented in a different and incompatible way by
158 the time they are merged in Linux mainline.
160 Changes that are backwards-compatible by nature (e.g. the addition of
161 attributes that do not change the way the other attributes work) do not
162 always warrant an update of interface_version. Therefore, one must
163 expect 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
165 feature is not available in sysfs).
168 Hot keys
169 --------
171 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
172 sysfs device attribute: hotkey_*
174 In a ThinkPad, the ACPI HKEY handler is responsible for communicating
175 some important events and also keyboard hot key presses to the operating
176 system. Enabling the hotkey functionality of thinkpad-acpi signals the
177 firmware that such a driver is present, and modifies how the ThinkPad
178 firmware will behave in many situations.
180 The driver enables the HKEY ("hot key") event reporting automatically
181 when loaded, and disables it when it is removed.
183 The driver will report HKEY events in the following format:
185 ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 0000xxxx
187 Some of these events refer to hot key presses, but not all of them.
189 The driver will generate events over the input layer for hot keys and
190 radio switches, and over the ACPI netlink layer for other events. The
191 input layer support accepts the standard IOCTLs to remap the keycodes
192 assigned to each hot key.
194 The hot key bit mask allows some control over which hot keys generate
195 events. If a key is "masked" (bit set to 0 in the mask), the firmware
196 will handle it. If it is "unmasked", it signals the firmware that
197 thinkpad-acpi would prefer to handle it, if the firmware would be so
198 kind to allow it (and it often doesn't!).
200 Not all bits in the mask can be modified. Not all bits that can be
201 modified do anything. Not all hot keys can be individually controlled
202 by the mask. Some models do not support the mask at all. The behaviour
203 of the mask is, therefore, highly dependent on the ThinkPad model.
205 The driver will filter out any unmasked hotkeys, so even if the firmware
206 doesn't allow disabling an specific hotkey, the driver will not report
207 events for unmasked hotkeys.
209 Note that unmasking some keys prevents their default behavior. For
210 example, if Fn+F5 is unmasked, that key will no longer enable/disable
211 Bluetooth by itself in firmware.
213 Note also that not all Fn key combinations are supported through ACPI
214 depending on the ThinkPad model and firmware version. On those
215 ThinkPads, it is still possible to support some extra hotkeys by
216 polling the "CMOS NVRAM" at least 10 times per second. The driver
217 attempts to enables this functionality automatically when required.
219 procfs notes:
221 The following commands can be written to the /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey file:
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 ...
226 echo reset > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- restore the recommended mask
228 The following commands have been deprecated and will cause the kernel
229 to log a warning:
231 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- does nothing
232 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- returns an error
234 The procfs interface does not support NVRAM polling control. So as to
235 maintain maximum bug-to-bug compatibility, it does not report any masks,
236 nor does it allow one to manipulate the hot key mask when the firmware
237 does not support masks at all, even if NVRAM polling is in use.
239 sysfs notes:
241 hotkey_bios_enabled:
242 DEPRECATED, WILL BE REMOVED SOON.
244 Returns 0.
246 hotkey_bios_mask:
247 DEPRECATED, DON'T USE, WILL BE REMOVED IN THE FUTURE.
249 Returns the hot keys mask when thinkpad-acpi was loaded.
250 Upon module unload, the hot keys mask will be restored
251 to this value. This is always 0x80c, because those are
252 the hotkeys that were supported by ancient firmware
253 without mask support.
255 hotkey_enable:
256 DEPRECATED, WILL BE REMOVED SOON.
258 0: returns -EPERM
259 1: does nothing
261 hotkey_mask:
262 bit mask to enable reporting (and depending on
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.
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.
275 hotkey_recommended_mask:
276 bit mask that should enable event reporting for all
277 supported hot keys, except those which are always
278 handled by the firmware anyway. Echo it to
279 hotkey_mask above, to use. This is the default mask
280 used by the driver.
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.
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.
293 Warning: when in NVRAM mode, the volume up/down/mute
294 keys are synthesized according to changes in the mixer,
295 which uses a single volume up or volume down hotkey
296 press to unmute, as per the ThinkPad volume mixer user
297 interface. When in ACPI event mode, volume up/down/mute
298 events are reported by the firmware and can behave
299 differently (and that behaviour changes with firmware
300 version -- not just with firmware models -- as well as
301 OSI(Linux) state).
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.
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.
312 Setting hotkey_poll_freq too low may 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.
317 hotkey_radio_sw:
318 If the ThinkPad has a hardware radio switch, this
319 attribute will read 0 if the switch is in the "radios
320 disabled" position, and 1 if the switch is in the
321 "radios enabled" position.
323 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
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.
330 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
332 wakeup_reason:
333 Set to 1 if the system is waking up because the user
334 requested a bay ejection. Set to 2 if the system is
335 waking up because the user requested the system to
336 undock. Set to zero for normal wake-ups or wake-ups
337 due to unknown reasons.
339 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
341 wakeup_hotunplug_complete:
342 Set to 1 if the system was waken up because of an
343 undock or bay ejection request, and that request
344 was successfully completed. At this point, it might
345 be useful to send the system back to sleep, at the
346 user's choice. Refer to HKEY events 0x4003 and
347 0x3003, below.
349 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
351 input layer notes:
353 A Hot key is mapped to a single input layer EV_KEY event, possibly
354 followed by an EV_MSC MSC_SCAN event that shall contain that key's scan
355 code. An EV_SYN event will always be generated to mark the end of the
356 event block.
358 Do not use the EV_MSC MSC_SCAN events to process keys. They are to be
359 used as a helper to remap keys, only. They are particularly useful when
360 remapping KEY_UNKNOWN keys.
362 The events are available in an input device, with the following id:
364 Bus: BUS_HOST
365 vendor: 0x1014 (PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM) or
366 0x17aa (PCI_VENDOR_ID_LENOVO)
367 product: 0x5054 ("TP")
368 version: 0x4101
370 The version will have its LSB incremented if the keymap changes in a
371 backwards-compatible way. The MSB shall always be 0x41 for this input
372 device. If the MSB is not 0x41, do not use the device as described in
373 this section, as it is either something else (e.g. another input device
374 exported by a thinkpad driver, such as HDAPS) or its functionality has
375 been changed in a non-backwards compatible way.
377 Adding other event types for other functionalities shall be considered a
378 backwards-compatible change for this input device.
380 Thinkpad-acpi Hot Key event map (version 0x4101):
382 ACPI Scan
383 event code Key Notes
385 0x1001 0x00 FN+F1 -
387 0x1002 0x01 FN+F2 IBM: battery (rare)
388 Lenovo: Screen lock
390 0x1003 0x02 FN+F3 Many IBM models always report
391 this hot key, even with hot keys
392 disabled or with Fn+F3 masked
393 off
394 IBM: screen lock, often turns
395 off the ThinkLight as side-effect
396 Lenovo: battery
398 0x1004 0x03 FN+F4 Sleep button (ACPI sleep button
399 semantics, i.e. sleep-to-RAM).
400 It always generates some kind
401 of event, either the hot key
402 event or an ACPI sleep button
403 event. The firmware may
404 refuse to generate further FN+F4
405 key presses until a S3 or S4 ACPI
406 sleep cycle is performed or some
407 time passes.
409 0x1005 0x04 FN+F5 Radio. Enables/disables
410 the internal Bluetooth hardware
411 and W-WAN card if left in control
412 of the firmware. Does not affect
413 the WLAN card.
414 Should be used to turn on/off all
415 radios (Bluetooth+W-WAN+WLAN),
416 really.
418 0x1006 0x05 FN+F6 -
420 0x1007 0x06 FN+F7 Video output cycle.
421 Do you feel lucky today?
423 0x1008 0x07 FN+F8 IBM: toggle screen expand
424 Lenovo: configure UltraNav,
425 or toggle screen expand
427 0x1009 0x08 FN+F9 -
428 .. .. ..
429 0x100B 0x0A FN+F11 -
431 0x100C 0x0B FN+F12 Sleep to disk. You are always
432 supposed to handle it yourself,
433 either through the ACPI event,
434 or through a hotkey event.
435 The firmware may refuse to
436 generate further FN+F12 key
437 press events until a S3 or S4
438 ACPI sleep cycle is performed,
439 or some time passes.
441 0x100D 0x0C FN+BACKSPACE -
442 0x100E 0x0D FN+INSERT -
443 0x100F 0x0E FN+DELETE -
445 0x1010 0x0F FN+HOME Brightness up. This key is
446 always handled by the firmware
447 in IBM ThinkPads, even when
448 unmasked. Just leave it alone.
449 For Lenovo ThinkPads with a new
450 BIOS, it has to be handled either
451 by the ACPI OSI, or by userspace.
452 The driver does the right thing,
453 never mess with this.
454 0x1011 0x10 FN+END Brightness down. See brightness
455 up for details.
457 0x1012 0x11 FN+PGUP ThinkLight toggle. This key is
458 always handled by the firmware,
459 even when unmasked.
461 0x1013 0x12 FN+PGDOWN -
463 0x1014 0x13 FN+SPACE Zoom key
465 0x1015 0x14 VOLUME UP Internal mixer volume up. This
466 key is always handled by the
467 firmware, even when unmasked.
468 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing
469 this.
470 0x1016 0x15 VOLUME DOWN Internal mixer volume up. This
471 key is always handled by the
472 firmware, even when unmasked.
473 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing
474 this.
475 0x1017 0x16 MUTE Mute internal mixer. This
476 key is always handled by the
477 firmware, even when unmasked.
479 0x1018 0x17 THINKPAD ThinkPad/Access IBM/Lenovo key
481 0x1019 0x18 unknown
482 .. .. ..
483 0x1020 0x1F unknown
485 The ThinkPad firmware does not allow one to differentiate when most hot
486 keys are pressed or released (either that, or we don't know how to, yet).
487 For these keys, the driver generates a set of events for a key press and
488 immediately issues the same set of events for a key release. It is
489 unknown by the driver if the ThinkPad firmware triggered these events on
490 hot key press or release, but the firmware will do it for either one, not
491 both.
493 If a key is mapped to KEY_RESERVED, it generates no input events at all.
494 If a key is mapped to KEY_UNKNOWN, it generates an input event that
495 includes an scan code. If a key is mapped to anything else, it will
496 generate input device EV_KEY events.
498 In addition to the EV_KEY events, thinkpad-acpi may also issue EV_SW
499 events for switches:
501 SW_RFKILL_ALL T60 and later hardware rfkill rocker switch
502 SW_TABLET_MODE Tablet ThinkPads HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A
504 Non hotkey ACPI HKEY event map:
505 -------------------------------
507 Events that are never propagated by the driver:
509 0x2304 System is waking up from suspend to undock
510 0x2305 System is waking up from suspend to eject bay
511 0x2404 System is waking up from hibernation to undock
512 0x2405 System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay
513 0x5001 Lid closed
514 0x5002 Lid opened
515 0x5009 Tablet swivel: switched to tablet mode
516 0x500A Tablet swivel: switched to normal mode
517 0x5010 Brightness level changed/control event
518 0x6000 KEYBOARD: Numlock key pressed
519 0x6005 KEYBOARD: Fn key pressed (TO BE VERIFIED)
520 0x7000 Radio Switch may have changed state
523 Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:
525 0x2313 ALARM: System is waking up from suspend because
526 the battery is nearly empty
527 0x2413 ALARM: System is waking up from hibernation because
528 the battery is nearly empty
529 0x3003 Bay ejection (see 0x2x05) complete, can sleep again
530 0x3006 Bay hotplug request (hint to power up SATA link when
531 the optical drive tray is ejected)
532 0x4003 Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again
533 0x4010 Docked into hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock)
534 0x4011 Undocked from hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock)
535 0x500B Tablet pen inserted into its storage bay
536 0x500C Tablet pen removed from its storage bay
537 0x6011 ALARM: battery is too hot
538 0x6012 ALARM: battery is extremely hot
539 0x6021 ALARM: a sensor is too hot
540 0x6022 ALARM: a sensor is extremely hot
541 0x6030 System thermal table changed
542 0x6040 Nvidia Optimus/AC adapter related (TO BE VERIFIED)
544 Battery nearly empty alarms are a last resort attempt to get the
545 operating system to hibernate or shutdown cleanly (0x2313), or shutdown
546 cleanly (0x2413) before power is lost. They must be acted upon, as the
547 wake up caused by the firmware will have negated most safety nets...
549 When any of the "too hot" alarms happen, according to Lenovo the user
550 should suspend or hibernate the laptop (and in the case of battery
551 alarms, unplug the AC adapter) to let it cool down. These alarms do
552 signal that something is wrong, they should never happen on normal
553 operating conditions.
555 The "extremely hot" alarms are emergencies. According to Lenovo, the
556 operating system is to force either an immediate suspend or hibernate
557 cycle, or a system shutdown. Obviously, something is very wrong if this
558 happens.
561 Brightness hotkey notes:
563 Don't mess with the brightness hotkeys in a Thinkpad. If you want
564 notifications for OSD, use the sysfs backlight class event support.
566 The driver will issue KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN events
567 automatically for the cases were userspace has to do something to
568 implement brightness changes. When you override these events, you will
569 either fail to handle properly the ThinkPads that require explicit
570 action to change backlight brightness, or the ThinkPads that require
571 that no action be taken to work properly.
574 Bluetooth
575 ---------
577 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
578 sysfs device attribute: bluetooth_enable (deprecated)
579 sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw"
581 This feature shows the presence and current state of a ThinkPad
582 Bluetooth device in the internal ThinkPad CDC slot.
584 If the ThinkPad supports it, the Bluetooth state is stored in NVRAM,
585 so it is kept across reboots and power-off.
587 Procfs notes:
589 If Bluetooth is installed, the following commands can be used:
591 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
592 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
594 Sysfs notes:
596 If the Bluetooth CDC card is installed, it can be enabled /
597 disabled through the "bluetooth_enable" thinkpad-acpi device
598 attribute, and its current status can also be queried.
600 enable:
601 0: disables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is disabled
602 1: enables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is enabled.
604 Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill
605 class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year
606 2010.
608 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw": refer to
609 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
612 Video output control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/video
613 --------------------------------------------
615 This feature allows control over the devices used for video output -
616 LCD, CRT or DVI (if available). The following commands are available:
618 echo lcd_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
619 echo lcd_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
620 echo crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
621 echo crt_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
622 echo dvi_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
623 echo dvi_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
624 echo auto_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
625 echo auto_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
626 echo expand_toggle > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
627 echo video_switch > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
629 NOTE: Access to this feature is restricted to processes owning the
630 CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for safety reasons, as it can interact badly
631 enough with some versions of X.org to crash it.
633 Each video output device can be enabled or disabled individually.
634 Reading /proc/acpi/ibm/video shows the status of each device.
636 Automatic video switching can be enabled or disabled. When automatic
637 video switching is enabled, certain events (e.g. opening the lid,
638 docking or undocking) cause the video output device to change
639 automatically. While this can be useful, it also causes flickering
640 and, on the X40, video corruption. By disabling automatic switching,
641 the flickering or video corruption can be avoided.
643 The video_switch command cycles through the available video outputs
644 (it simulates the behavior of Fn-F7).
646 Video expansion can be toggled through this feature. This controls
647 whether the display is expanded to fill the entire LCD screen when a
648 mode with less than full resolution is used. Note that the current
649 video expansion status cannot be determined through this feature.
651 Note that on many models (particularly those using Radeon graphics
652 chips) the X driver configures the video card in a way which prevents
653 Fn-F7 from working. This also disables the video output switching
654 features of this driver, as it uses the same ACPI methods as
655 Fn-F7. Video switching on the console should still work.
657 UPDATE: refer to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000
660 ThinkLight control
661 ------------------
663 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/light
664 sysfs attributes: as per LED class, for the "tpacpi::thinklight" LED
666 procfs notes:
668 The ThinkLight status can be read and set through the procfs interface. A
669 few models which do not make the status available will show the ThinkLight
670 status as "unknown". The available commands are:
672 echo on > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
673 echo off > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
675 sysfs notes:
677 The ThinkLight sysfs interface is documented by the LED class
678 documentation, in Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt. The ThinkLight LED name
679 is "tpacpi::thinklight".
681 Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the ThinkLight
682 cannot be read or if it is unknown, thinkpad-acpi will report it as "off".
683 It is impossible to know if the status returned through sysfs is valid.
686 CMOS/UCMS control
687 -----------------
689 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/cmos
690 sysfs device attribute: cmos_command
692 This feature is mostly used internally by the ACPI firmware to keep the legacy
693 CMOS NVRAM bits in sync with the current machine state, and to record this
694 state so that the ThinkPad will retain such settings across reboots.
696 Some of these commands actually perform actions in some ThinkPad models, but
697 this is expected to disappear more and more in newer models. As an example, in
698 a T43 and in a X40, commands 12 and 13 still control the ThinkLight state for
699 real, but commands 0 to 2 don't control the mixer anymore (they have been
700 phased out) and just update the NVRAM.
702 The range of valid cmos command numbers is 0 to 21, but not all have an
703 effect and the behavior varies from model to model. Here is the behavior
704 on the X40 (tpb is the ThinkPad Buttons utility):
706 0 - Related to "Volume down" key press
707 1 - Related to "Volume up" key press
708 2 - Related to "Mute on" key press
709 3 - Related to "Access IBM" key press
710 4 - Related to "LCD brightness up" key press
711 5 - Related to "LCD brightness down" key press
712 11 - Related to "toggle screen expansion" key press/function
713 12 - Related to "ThinkLight on"
714 13 - Related to "ThinkLight off"
715 14 - Related to "ThinkLight" key press (toggle ThinkLight)
717 The cmos command interface is prone to firmware split-brain problems, as
718 in newer ThinkPads it is just a compatibility layer. Do not use it, it is
719 exported just as a debug tool.
722 LED control
723 -----------
725 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/led
726 sysfs attributes: as per LED class, see below for names
728 Some of the LED indicators can be controlled through this feature. On
729 some older ThinkPad models, it is possible to query the status of the
730 LED indicators as well. Newer ThinkPads cannot query the real status
731 of the LED indicators.
733 Because misuse of the LEDs could induce an unaware user to perform
734 dangerous actions (like undocking or ejecting a bay device while the
735 buses are still active), or mask an important alarm (such as a nearly
736 empty battery, or a broken battery), access to most LEDs is
737 restricted.
739 Unrestricted access to all LEDs requires that thinkpad-acpi be
740 compiled with the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_UNSAFE_LEDS option enabled.
741 Distributions must never enable this option. Individual users that
742 are aware of the consequences are welcome to enabling it.
744 Audio mute and microphone mute LEDs are supported, but currently not
745 visible to userspace. They are used by the snd-hda-intel audio driver.
747 procfs notes:
749 The available commands are:
751 echo '<LED number> on' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
752 echo '<LED number> off' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
753 echo '<LED number> blink' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
755 The <LED number> range is 0 to 15. The set of LEDs that can be
756 controlled varies from model to model. Here is the common ThinkPad
757 mapping:
759 0 - power
760 1 - battery (orange)
761 2 - battery (green)
762 3 - UltraBase/dock
763 4 - UltraBay
764 5 - UltraBase battery slot
765 6 - (unknown)
766 7 - standby
767 8 - dock status 1
768 9 - dock status 2
769 10, 11 - (unknown)
770 12 - thinkvantage
771 13, 14, 15 - (unknown)
773 All of the above can be turned on and off and can be made to blink.
775 sysfs notes:
777 The ThinkPad LED sysfs interface is described in detail by the LED class
778 documentation, in Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt.
780 The LEDs are named (in LED ID order, from 0 to 12):
781 "tpacpi::power", "tpacpi:orange:batt", "tpacpi:green:batt",
782 "tpacpi::dock_active", "tpacpi::bay_active", "tpacpi::dock_batt",
783 "tpacpi::unknown_led", "tpacpi::standby", "tpacpi::dock_status1",
784 "tpacpi::dock_status2", "tpacpi::unknown_led2", "tpacpi::unknown_led3",
785 "tpacpi::thinkvantage".
787 Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the LED
788 indicators cannot be read due to an error, thinkpad-acpi will report it as
789 a brightness of zero (same as LED off).
791 If the thinkpad firmware doesn't support reading the current status,
792 trying to read the current LED brightness will just return whatever
793 brightness was last written to that attribute.
795 These LEDs can blink using hardware acceleration. To request that a
796 ThinkPad indicator LED should blink in hardware accelerated mode, use the
797 "timer" trigger, and leave the delay_on and delay_off parameters set to
798 zero (to request hardware acceleration autodetection).
800 LEDs that are known not to exist in a given ThinkPad model are not
801 made available through the sysfs interface. If you have a dock and you
802 notice there are LEDs listed for your ThinkPad that do not exist (and
803 are not in the dock), or if you notice that there are missing LEDs,
804 a report to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is appreciated.
807 ACPI sounds -- /proc/acpi/ibm/beep
808 ----------------------------------
810 The BEEP method is used internally by the ACPI firmware to provide
811 audible alerts in various situations. This feature allows the same
812 sounds to be triggered manually.
814 The commands are non-negative integer numbers:
816 echo <number> >/proc/acpi/ibm/beep
818 The valid <number> range is 0 to 17. Not all numbers trigger sounds
819 and the sounds vary from model to model. Here is the behavior on the
820 X40:
822 0 - stop a sound in progress (but use 17 to stop 16)
823 2 - two beeps, pause, third beep ("low battery")
824 3 - single beep
825 4 - high, followed by low-pitched beep ("unable")
826 5 - single beep
827 6 - very high, followed by high-pitched beep ("AC/DC")
828 7 - high-pitched beep
829 9 - three short beeps
830 10 - very long beep
831 12 - low-pitched beep
832 15 - three high-pitched beeps repeating constantly, stop with 0
833 16 - one medium-pitched beep repeating constantly, stop with 17
834 17 - stop 16
837 Temperature sensors
838 -------------------
840 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
841 sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") temp*_input
843 Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but only
844 expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods. This
845 feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors on older
846 ThinkPads, and up to sixteen different sensors on newer ThinkPads.
848 For example, on the X40, a typical output may be:
849 temperatures: 42 42 45 41 36 -128 33 -128
851 On the T43/p, a typical output may be:
852 temperatures: 48 48 36 52 38 -128 31 -128 48 52 48 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128
854 The mapping of thermal sensors to physical locations varies depending on
855 system-board model (and thus, on ThinkPad model).
857 http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors is a public wiki page that
858 tries to track down these locations for various models.
860 Most (newer?) models seem to follow this pattern:
862 1: CPU
863 2: (depends on model)
864 3: (depends on model)
865 4: GPU
866 5: Main battery: main sensor
867 6: Bay battery: main sensor
868 7: Main battery: secondary sensor
869 8: Bay battery: secondary sensor
870 9-15: (depends on model)
872 For the R51 (source: Thomas Gruber):
873 2: Mini-PCI
874 3: Internal HDD
876 For the T43, T43/p (source: Shmidoax/Thinkwiki.org)
877 http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p
878 2: System board, left side (near PCMCIA slot), reported as HDAPS temp
879 3: PCMCIA slot
880 9: MCH (northbridge) to DRAM Bus
881 10: Clock-generator, mini-pci card and ICH (southbridge), under Mini-PCI
882 card, under touchpad
883 11: Power regulator, underside of system board, below F2 key
885 The A31 has a very atypical layout for the thermal sensors
886 (source: Milos Popovic, http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_A31)
887 1: CPU
888 2: Main Battery: main sensor
889 3: Power Converter
890 4: Bay Battery: main sensor
891 5: MCH (northbridge)
892 6: PCMCIA/ambient
893 7: Main Battery: secondary sensor
894 8: Bay Battery: secondary sensor
897 Procfs notes:
898 Readings from sensors that are not available return -128.
899 No commands can be written to this file.
901 Sysfs notes:
902 Sensors that are not available return the ENXIO error. This
903 status may change at runtime, as there are hotplug thermal
904 sensors, like those inside the batteries and docks.
906 thinkpad-acpi thermal sensors are reported through the hwmon
907 subsystem, and follow all of the hwmon guidelines at
908 Documentation/hwmon.
910 EXPERIMENTAL: Embedded controller register dump
911 -----------------------------------------------
913 This feature is not included in the thinkpad driver anymore.
914 Instead the EC can be accessed through /sys/kernel/debug/ec with
915 a userspace tool which can be found here:
916 ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/trenn/sources/ec
918 Use it to determine the register holding the fan
919 speed on some models. To do that, do the following:
920 - make sure the battery is fully charged
921 - make sure the fan is running
922 - use above mentioned tool to read out the EC
924 Often fan and temperature values vary between
925 readings. Since temperatures don't change vary fast, you can take
926 several quick dumps to eliminate them.
928 You can use a similar method to figure out the meaning of other
929 embedded controller registers - e.g. make sure nothing else changes
930 except the charging or discharging battery to determine which
931 registers contain the current battery capacity, etc. If you experiment
932 with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with
933 a description of the conditions when they were taken.)
936 LCD brightness control
937 ----------------------
939 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
940 sysfs backlight device "thinkpad_screen"
942 This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad
943 models which don't have a hardware brightness slider.
945 It has some limitations: the LCD backlight cannot be actually turned
946 on or off by this interface, it just controls the backlight brightness
947 level.
949 On IBM (and some of the earlier Lenovo) ThinkPads, the backlight control
950 has eight brightness levels, ranging from 0 to 7. Some of the levels
951 may not be distinct. Later Lenovo models that implement the ACPI
952 display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging
953 from 0 to 15.
955 For IBM ThinkPads, there are two interfaces to the firmware for direct
956 brightness control, EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be
957 used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects
958 EC mode, brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC
959 mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered across
960 shutdown/reboot).
962 The driver tries to select which interface to use from a table of
963 defaults for each ThinkPad model. If it makes a wrong choice, please
964 report this as a bug, so that we can fix it.
966 Lenovo ThinkPads only support brightness_mode=2 (UCMS).
968 When display backlight brightness controls are available through the
969 standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct
970 ThinkPad-specific interface. The driver will disable its native
971 backlight brightness control interface if it detects that the standard
972 ACPI interface is available in the ThinkPad.
974 If you want to use the thinkpad-acpi backlight brightness control
975 instead of the generic ACPI video backlight brightness control for some
976 reason, you should use the acpi_backlight=vendor kernel parameter.
978 The brightness_enable module parameter can be used to control whether
979 the LCD brightness control feature will be enabled when available.
980 brightness_enable=0 forces it to be disabled. brightness_enable=1
981 forces it to be enabled when available, even if the standard ACPI
982 interface is also available.
984 Procfs notes:
986 The available commands are:
988 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
989 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
990 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
992 Sysfs notes:
994 The interface is implemented through the backlight sysfs class, which is
995 poorly documented at this time.
997 Locate the thinkpad_screen device under /sys/class/backlight, and inside
998 it there will be the following attributes:
1000 max_brightness:
1001 Reads the maximum brightness the hardware can be set to.
1002 The minimum is always zero.
1004 actual_brightness:
1005 Reads what brightness the screen is set to at this instant.
1007 brightness:
1008 Writes request the driver to change brightness to the
1009 given value. Reads will tell you what brightness the
1010 driver is trying to set the display to when "power" is set
1011 to zero and the display has not been dimmed by a kernel
1012 power management event.
1014 power:
1015 power management mode, where 0 is "display on", and 1 to 3
1016 will dim the display backlight to brightness level 0
1017 because thinkpad-acpi cannot really turn the backlight
1018 off. Kernel power management events can temporarily
1019 increase the current power management level, i.e. they can
1020 dim the display.
1023 WARNING:
1025 Whatever you do, do NOT ever call thinkpad-acpi backlight-level change
1026 interface and the ACPI-based backlight level change interface
1027 (available on newer BIOSes, and driven by the Linux ACPI video driver)
1028 at the same time. The two will interact in bad ways, do funny things,
1029 and maybe reduce the life of the backlight lamps by needlessly kicking
1030 its level up and down at every change.
1033 Volume control (Console Audio control)
1034 --------------------------------------
1036 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1037 ALSA: "ThinkPad Console Audio Control", default ID: "ThinkPadEC"
1039 NOTE: by default, the volume control interface operates in read-only
1040 mode, as it is supposed to be used for on-screen-display purposes.
1041 The read/write mode can be enabled through the use of the
1042 "volume_control=1" module parameter.
1044 NOTE: distros are urged to not enable volume_control by default, this
1045 should be done by the local admin only. The ThinkPad UI is for the
1046 console audio control to be done through the volume keys only, and for
1047 the desktop environment to just provide on-screen-display feedback.
1048 Software volume control should be done only in the main AC97/HDA
1049 mixer.
1052 About the ThinkPad Console Audio control:
1054 ThinkPads have a built-in amplifier and muting circuit that drives the
1055 console headphone and speakers. This circuit is after the main AC97
1056 or HDA mixer in the audio path, and under exclusive control of the
1057 firmware.
1059 ThinkPads have three special hotkeys to interact with the console
1060 audio control: volume up, volume down and mute.
1062 It is worth noting that the normal way the mute function works (on
1063 ThinkPads that do not have a "mute LED") is:
1065 1. Press mute to mute. It will *always* mute, you can press it as
1066 many times as you want, and the sound will remain mute.
1068 2. Press either volume key to unmute the ThinkPad (it will _not_
1069 change the volume, it will just unmute).
1071 This is a very superior design when compared to the cheap software-only
1072 mute-toggle solution found on normal consumer laptops: you can be
1073 absolutely sure the ThinkPad will not make noise if you press the mute
1074 button, no matter the previous state.
1076 The IBM ThinkPads, and the earlier Lenovo ThinkPads have variable-gain
1077 amplifiers driving the speakers and headphone output, and the firmware
1078 also handles volume control for the headphone and speakers on these
1079 ThinkPads without any help from the operating system (this volume
1080 control stage exists after the main AC97 or HDA mixer in the audio
1081 path).
1083 The newer Lenovo models only have firmware mute control, and depend on
1084 the main HDA mixer to do volume control (which is done by the operating
1085 system). In this case, the volume keys are filtered out for unmute
1086 key press (there are some firmware bugs in this area) and delivered as
1087 normal key presses to the operating system (thinkpad-acpi is not
1088 involved).
1091 The ThinkPad-ACPI volume control:
1093 The preferred way to interact with the Console Audio control is the
1094 ALSA interface.
1096 The legacy procfs interface allows one to read the current state,
1097 and if volume control is enabled, accepts the following commands:
1099 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1100 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1101 echo mute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1102 echo unmute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1103 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1105 The <level> number range is 0 to 14 although not all of them may be
1106 distinct. To unmute the volume after the mute command, use either the
1107 up or down command (the level command will not unmute the volume), or
1108 the unmute command.
1110 You can use the volume_capabilities parameter to tell the driver
1111 whether your thinkpad has volume control or mute-only control:
1112 volume_capabilities=1 for mixers with mute and volume control,
1113 volume_capabilities=2 for mixers with only mute control.
1115 If the driver misdetects the capabilities for your ThinkPad model,
1116 please report this to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, so that we
1117 can update the driver.
1119 There are two strategies for volume control. To select which one
1120 should be used, use the volume_mode module parameter: volume_mode=1
1121 selects EC mode, and volume_mode=3 selects EC mode with NVRAM backing
1122 (so that volume/mute changes are remembered across shutdown/reboot).
1124 The driver will operate in volume_mode=3 by default. If that does not
1125 work well on your ThinkPad model, please report this to
1126 ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
1128 The driver supports the standard ALSA module parameters. If the ALSA
1129 mixer is disabled, the driver will disable all volume functionality.
1132 Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
1133 ---------------------------------------------------------
1135 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1136 sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") fan1_input, pwm1,
1137 pwm1_enable, fan2_input
1138 sysfs hwmon driver attributes: fan_watchdog
1140 NOTE NOTE NOTE: fan control operations are disabled by default for
1141 safety reasons. To enable them, the module parameter "fan_control=1"
1142 must be given to thinkpad-acpi.
1144 This feature attempts to show the current fan speed, control mode and
1145 other fan data that might be available. The speed is read directly
1146 from the hardware registers of the embedded controller. This is known
1147 to work on later R, T, X and Z series ThinkPads but may show a bogus
1148 value on other models.
1150 Some Lenovo ThinkPads support a secondary fan. This fan cannot be
1151 controlled separately, it shares the main fan control.
1153 Fan levels:
1155 Most ThinkPad fans work in "levels" at the firmware interface. Level 0
1156 stops the fan. The higher the level, the higher the fan speed, although
1157 adjacent levels often map to the same fan speed. 7 is the highest
1158 level, where the fan reaches the maximum recommended speed.
1160 Level "auto" means the EC changes the fan level according to some
1161 internal algorithm, usually based on readings from the thermal sensors.
1163 There is also a "full-speed" level, also known as "disengaged" level.
1164 In this level, the EC disables the speed-locked closed-loop fan control,
1165 and drives the fan as fast as it can go, which might exceed hardware
1166 limits, so use this level with caution.
1168 The fan usually ramps up or down slowly from one speed to another, and
1169 it is normal for the EC to take several seconds to react to fan
1170 commands. The full-speed level may take up to two minutes to ramp up to
1171 maximum speed, and in some ThinkPads, the tachometer readings go stale
1172 while the EC is transitioning to the full-speed level.
1174 WARNING WARNING WARNING: do not leave the fan disabled unless you are
1175 monitoring all of the temperature sensor readings and you are ready to
1176 enable it if necessary to avoid overheating.
1178 An enabled fan in level "auto" may stop spinning if the EC decides the
1179 ThinkPad is cool enough and doesn't need the extra airflow. This is
1180 normal, and the EC will spin the fan up if the various thermal readings
1181 rise too much.
1183 On the X40, this seems to depend on the CPU and HDD temperatures.
1184 Specifically, the fan is turned on when either the CPU temperature
1185 climbs to 56 degrees or the HDD temperature climbs to 46 degrees. The
1186 fan is turned off when the CPU temperature drops to 49 degrees and the
1187 HDD temperature drops to 41 degrees. These thresholds cannot
1188 currently be controlled.
1190 The ThinkPad's ACPI DSDT code will reprogram the fan on its own when
1191 certain conditions are met. It will override any fan programming done
1192 through thinkpad-acpi.
1194 The thinkpad-acpi kernel driver can be programmed to revert the fan
1195 level to a safe setting if userspace does not issue one of the procfs
1196 fan commands: "enable", "disable", "level" or "watchdog", or if there
1197 are no writes to pwm1_enable (or to pwm1 *if and only if* pwm1_enable is
1198 set to 1, manual mode) within a configurable amount of time of up to
1199 120 seconds. This functionality is called fan safety watchdog.
1201 Note that the watchdog timer stops after it enables the fan. It will be
1202 rearmed again automatically (using the same interval) when one of the
1203 above mentioned fan commands is received. The fan watchdog is,
1204 therefore, not suitable to protect against fan mode changes made through
1205 means other than the "enable", "disable", and "level" procfs fan
1206 commands, or the hwmon fan control sysfs interface.
1208 Procfs notes:
1210 The fan may be enabled or disabled with the following commands:
1212 echo enable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1213 echo disable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1215 Placing a fan on level 0 is the same as disabling it. Enabling a fan
1216 will try to place it in a safe level if it is too slow or disabled.
1218 The fan level can be controlled with the command:
1220 echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1222 Where <level> is an integer from 0 to 7, or one of the words "auto" or
1223 "full-speed" (without the quotes). Not all ThinkPads support the "auto"
1224 and "full-speed" levels. The driver accepts "disengaged" as an alias for
1225 "full-speed", and reports it as "disengaged" for backwards
1226 compatibility.
1228 On the X31 and X40 (and ONLY on those models), the fan speed can be
1229 controlled to a certain degree. Once the fan is running, it can be
1230 forced to run faster or slower with the following command:
1232 echo 'speed <speed>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1234 The sustainable range of fan speeds on the X40 appears to be from about
1235 3700 to about 7350. Values outside this range either do not have any
1236 effect or the fan speed eventually settles somewhere in that range. The
1237 fan cannot be stopped or started with this command. This functionality
1238 is incomplete, and not available through the sysfs interface.
1240 To program the safety watchdog, use the "watchdog" command.
1242 echo 'watchdog <interval in seconds>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1244 If you want to disable the watchdog, use 0 as the interval.
1246 Sysfs notes:
1248 The sysfs interface follows the hwmon subsystem guidelines for the most
1249 part, and the exception is the fan safety watchdog.
1251 Writes to any of the sysfs attributes may return the EINVAL error if
1252 that operation is not supported in a given ThinkPad or if the parameter
1253 is out-of-bounds, and EPERM if it is forbidden. They may also return
1254 EINTR (interrupted system call), and EIO (I/O error while trying to talk
1255 to the firmware).
1257 Features not yet implemented by the driver return ENOSYS.
1259 hwmon device attribute pwm1_enable:
1260 0: PWM offline (fan is set to full-speed mode)
1261 1: Manual PWM control (use pwm1 to set fan level)
1262 2: Hardware PWM control (EC "auto" mode)
1263 3: reserved (Software PWM control, not implemented yet)
1265 Modes 0 and 2 are not supported by all ThinkPads, and the
1266 driver is not always able to detect this. If it does know a
1267 mode is unsupported, it will return -EINVAL.
1269 hwmon device attribute pwm1:
1270 Fan level, scaled from the firmware values of 0-7 to the hwmon
1271 scale of 0-255. 0 means fan stopped, 255 means highest normal
1272 speed (level 7).
1274 This attribute only commands the fan if pmw1_enable is set to 1
1275 (manual PWM control).
1277 hwmon device attribute fan1_input:
1278 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM. May go stale on certain
1279 ThinkPads while the EC transitions the PWM to offline mode,
1280 which can take up to two minutes. May return rubbish on older
1281 ThinkPads.
1283 hwmon device attribute fan2_input:
1284 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM, for the secondary fan.
1285 Available only on some ThinkPads. If the secondary fan is
1286 not installed, will always read 0.
1288 hwmon driver attribute fan_watchdog:
1289 Fan safety watchdog timer interval, in seconds. Minimum is
1290 1 second, maximum is 120 seconds. 0 disables the watchdog.
1292 To stop the fan: set pwm1 to zero, and pwm1_enable to 1.
1294 To start the fan in a safe mode: set pwm1_enable to 2. If that fails
1295 with EINVAL, try to set pwm1_enable to 1 and pwm1 to at least 128 (255
1296 would be the safest choice, though).
1299 WAN
1300 ---
1302 procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1303 sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable (deprecated)
1304 sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw"
1306 This feature shows the presence and current state of the built-in
1307 Wireless WAN device.
1309 If the ThinkPad supports it, the WWAN state is stored in NVRAM,
1310 so it is kept across reboots and power-off.
1312 It was tested on a Lenovo ThinkPad X60. It should probably work on other
1313 ThinkPad models which come with this module installed.
1315 Procfs notes:
1317 If the W-WAN card is installed, the following commands can be used:
1319 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1320 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1322 Sysfs notes:
1324 If the W-WAN card is installed, it can be enabled /
1325 disabled through the "wwan_enable" thinkpad-acpi device
1326 attribute, and its current status can also be queried.
1328 enable:
1329 0: disables WWAN card / WWAN card is disabled
1330 1: enables WWAN card / WWAN card is enabled.
1332 Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill
1333 class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year
1334 2010.
1336 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw": refer to
1337 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
1340 EXPERIMENTAL: UWB
1341 -----------------
1343 This feature is considered EXPERIMENTAL because it has not been extensively
1344 tested and validated in various ThinkPad models yet. The feature may not
1345 work as expected. USE WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply
1346 the experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
1348 sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw"
1350 This feature exports an rfkill controller for the UWB device, if one is
1351 present and enabled in the BIOS.
1353 Sysfs notes:
1355 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw": refer to
1356 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
1359 Multiple Commands, Module Parameters
1360 ------------------------------------
1362 Multiple commands can be written to the proc files in one shot by
1363 separating them with commas, for example:
1365 echo enable,0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
1366 echo lcd_disable,crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
1368 Commands can also be specified when loading the thinkpad-acpi module,
1369 for example:
1371 modprobe thinkpad_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff video=auto_disable
1374 Enabling debugging output
1375 -------------------------
1377 The module takes a debug parameter which can be used to selectively
1378 enable various classes of debugging output, for example:
1380 modprobe thinkpad_acpi debug=0xffff
1382 will enable all debugging output classes. It takes a bitmask, so
1383 to enable more than one output class, just add their values.
1385 Debug bitmask Description
1386 0x8000 Disclose PID of userspace programs
1387 accessing some functions of the driver
1388 0x0001 Initialization and probing
1389 0x0002 Removal
1390 0x0004 RF Transmitter control (RFKILL)
1391 (bluetooth, WWAN, UWB...)
1392 0x0008 HKEY event interface, hotkeys
1393 0x0010 Fan control
1394 0x0020 Backlight brightness
1395 0x0040 Audio mixer/volume control
1397 There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging
1398 information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems.
1400 The level of debugging information output by the driver can be changed
1401 at runtime through sysfs, using the driver attribute debug_level. The
1402 attribute takes the same bitmask as the debug module parameter above.
1405 Force loading of module
1406 -----------------------
1408 If thinkpad-acpi refuses to detect your ThinkPad, you can try to specify
1409 the module parameter force_load=1. Regardless of whether this works or
1410 not, please contact ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net with a report.
1413 Sysfs interface changelog:
1415 0x000100: Initial sysfs support, as a single platform driver and
1416 device.
1417 0x000200: Hot key support for 32 hot keys, and radio slider switch
1418 support.
1419 0x010000: Hot keys are now handled by default over the input
1420 layer, the radio switch generates input event EV_RADIO,
1421 and the driver enables hot key handling by default in
1422 the firmware.
1424 0x020000: ABI fix: added a separate hwmon platform device and
1425 driver, which must be located by name (thinkpad)
1426 and the hwmon class for libsensors4 (lm-sensors 3)
1427 compatibility. Moved all hwmon attributes to this
1428 new platform device.
1430 0x020100: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
1431 support. If you must, use it to know you should not
1432 start a userspace NVRAM poller (allows to detect when
1433 NVRAM is compiled out by the user because it is
1434 unneeded/undesired in the first place).
1435 0x020101: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
1436 and proper hotkey_mask semantics (version 8 of the
1437 NVRAM polling patch). Some development snapshots of
1438 0.18 had an earlier version that did strange things
1439 to hotkey_mask.
1441 0x020200: Add poll()/select() support to the following attributes:
1442 hotkey_radio_sw, wakeup_hotunplug_complete, wakeup_reason
1444 0x020300: hotkey enable/disable support removed, attributes
1445 hotkey_bios_enabled and hotkey_enable deprecated and
1446 marked for removal.
1448 0x020400: Marker for 16 LEDs support. Also, LEDs that are known
1449 to not exist in a given model are not registered with
1450 the LED sysfs class anymore.
1452 0x020500: Updated hotkey driver, hotkey_mask is always available
1453 and it is always able to disable hot keys. Very old
1454 thinkpads are properly supported. hotkey_bios_mask
1455 is deprecated and marked for removal.
1457 0x020600: Marker for backlight change event support.
1459 0x020700: Support for mute-only mixers.
1460 Volume control in read-only mode by default.
1461 Marker for ALSA mixer support.