Re: Thinkpad T40 vs tpctl
From: Ian Hutchinson (hutch_at_hutchinson.belmont.ma.us)
Date: 07/07/04
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Date: Wed, 07 Jul 2004 01:18:20 GMT
Hactar wrote:
> Hi. If this is a FAQ, point me at the FM and I'll R it.
>
> I have a Thinkpad T40 with SuSE 9.1 and kernel 2.6.7. Whenever I run tpctl
> (as root), I get
>
> tpctl: System error message is: No such device
> tpctl: Can't open device file /dev/thinkpad with flags O_RDWR. Exiting.
>
> /dev/thinkpad exists:
>
> crw-rw-r-- 1 root root 10, 170 2004-04-05 23:15 /dev/thinkpad
>
> It sounds like there's some option in the kernel configuration I missed.
>
Did you download and compile/install the thinkpad kernel module for your
kernel? If not, then it is not there, even if a /dev/thinkpad seems to
exist.
Ian Hutchinson/
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