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A fresh Breez{y|e}

Posted on October 27, 2005

Following the upgrade of my T42 to the latest and greatest Ubuntu Release, I updated the Ubuntu-on-T42-Howto.

No news regarding the new Ubuntu version, though - everything still works like a charm.

But there was a (not Breezy-specific) issue with OSD display, forcing you to restart acpid once logged into X to make OSD messages work. I tend to reboot only for kernel upgrades, so I didn’t take notice of this problem. Thanks to Edward Mendelson for pointing this out.

For more information, read the updated howto.

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  1. Edward Mendelson – October 27, 2005 @ 07:04 PM
    Many thanks for the update, and for the very elegant solution of the OSD problem. I've incorporated your method (with very minor changes) in my own TP42 how-to page: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/ubuntubreezythinkpadt42.html This includes a suggestion to put the echo command in crontab in order to perform it at each reboot. There's probably a more elegant method, but I don't know what it is! Thanks again for this terrific page.
  2. jk – October 28, 2005 @ 02:26 AM
    Placing that echo command into some init script, i.e. into the start() function of /etc/init.d/acpid would be a more standard way of ensuring this is run at reboot.
  3. Edward Mendelson – October 28, 2005 @ 07:58 PM
    Thank you again - I added the echo command as the last line in the start() function of acpid, as you suggested, and it works perfectly. One quick note on Breezy: No need to add ACPI_HIBERNATE=true to acpi-support; it's there by default in a TP42 installation.
  4. Edward Mendelson – October 30, 2005 @ 01:08 AM
    Minor problem: after hibernation/wake, I seem to need to echo 0xfff > etc. in order to get your Fn+f6 script to work. I wonder if some other changes I made in my system affect this. Do you have this problem on your system also? If so, what might be the way to automate this?
  5. Edward Mendelson – October 30, 2005 @ 02:28 AM
    Fixed, I think: add the echo command to the last line of resume.sh
  6. Edward Mendelson – October 30, 2005 @ 04:07 PM
    Actually, it makes more sense to add the echo line to the restart stanza in acpid itself - sorry to clutter this page with comments that get things wrong at first...