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1 ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver 2 3 Version 0.24 4 December 11th, 2009 5 6 Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net> 7 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> 8 http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/ 9 10 11This is a Linux driver for the IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptops. It 12supports various features of these laptops which are accessible 13through the ACPI and ACPI EC framework, but not otherwise fully 14supported by the generic Linux ACPI drivers. 15 16This driver used to be named ibm-acpi until kernel 2.6.21 and release 170.13-20070314. It used to be in the drivers/acpi tree, but it was 18moved to the drivers/misc tree and renamed to thinkpad-acpi for kernel 192.6.22, and release 0.14. It was moved to drivers/platform/x86 for 20kernel 2.6.29 and release 0.22. 21 22The driver is named "thinkpad-acpi". In some places, like module 23names and log messages, "thinkpad_acpi" is used because of userspace 24issues. 25 26"tpacpi" is used as a shorthand where "thinkpad-acpi" would be too 27long due to length limitations on some Linux kernel versions. 28 29Status 30------ 31 32The features currently supported are the following (see below for 33detailed description): 34 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 49 50A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web 51site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure 52reports, especially if they add to or correct the compatibility table. 53Please include the following information in your report: 54 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 61 62Any other comments or patches are also more than welcome. 63 64 65Installation 66------------ 67 68If you are compiling this driver as included in the Linux kernel 69sources, look for the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI Kconfig option. 70It is located on the menu path: "Device Drivers" -> "X86 Platform 71Specific Device Drivers" -> "ThinkPad ACPI Laptop Extras". 72 73 74Features 75-------- 76 77The driver exports two different interfaces to userspace, which can be 78used to access the features it provides. One is a legacy procfs-based 79interface, which will be removed at some time in the future. The other 80is a new sysfs-based interface which is not complete yet. 81 82The procfs interface creates the /proc/acpi/ibm directory. There is a 83file under that directory for each feature it supports. The procfs 84interface is mostly frozen, and will change very little if at all: it 85will not be extended to add any new functionality in the driver, instead 86all new functionality will be implemented on the sysfs interface. 87 88The sysfs interface tries to blend in the generic Linux sysfs subsystems 89and classes as much as possible. Since some of these subsystems are not 90yet ready or stabilized, it is expected that this interface will change, 91and any and all userspace programs must deal with it. 92 93 94Notes about the sysfs interface: 95 96Unlike what was done with the procfs interface, correctness when talking 97to the sysfs interfaces will be enforced, as will correctness in the 98thinkpad-acpi's implementation of sysfs interfaces. 99 100Also, any bugs in the thinkpad-acpi sysfs driver code or in the 101thinkpad-acpi's implementation of the sysfs interfaces will be fixed for 102maximum correctness, even if that means changing an interface in 103non-compatible ways. As these interfaces mature both in the kernel and 104in thinkpad-acpi, such changes should become quite rare. 105 106Applications interfacing to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interfaces must 107follow all sysfs guidelines and correctly process all errors (the sysfs 108interface makes extensive use of errors). File descriptors and open / 109close operations to the sysfs inodes must also be properly implemented. 110 111The version of thinkpad-acpi's sysfs interface is exported by the driver 112as a driver attribute (see below). 113 114Sysfs driver attributes are on the driver's sysfs attribute space, 115for 2.6.23+ this is /sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_acpi/ and 116/sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_hwmon/ 117 118Sysfs device attributes are on the thinkpad_acpi device sysfs attribute 119space, for 2.6.23+ this is /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/. 120 121Sysfs device attributes for the sensors and fan are on the 122thinkpad_hwmon device's sysfs attribute space, but you should locate it 123looking for a hwmon device with the name attribute of "thinkpad", or 124better yet, through libsensors. 125 126 127Driver version 128-------------- 129 130procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/driver 131sysfs driver attribute: version 132 133The driver name and version. No commands can be written to this file. 134 135 136Sysfs interface version 137----------------------- 138 139sysfs driver attribute: interface_version 140 141Version 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 146 147The sysfs interface version changelog for the driver can be found at the 148end of this document. Changes to the sysfs interface done by the kernel 149subsystems are not documented here, nor are they tracked by this 150attribute. 151 152Changes to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface are only considered 153non-experimental when they are submitted to Linux mainline, at which 154point the changes in this interface are documented and interface_version 155may be updated. If you are using any thinkpad-acpi features not yet 156sent to mainline for merging, you do so on your own risk: these features 157may disappear, or be implemented in a different and incompatible way by 158the time they are merged in Linux mainline. 159 160Changes that are backwards-compatible by nature (e.g. the addition of 161attributes that do not change the way the other attributes work) do not 162always warrant an update of interface_version. Therefore, one must 163expect 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 165feature is not available in sysfs). 166 167 168Hot keys 169-------- 170 171procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey 172sysfs device attribute: hotkey_* 173 174In a ThinkPad, the ACPI HKEY handler is responsible for communicating 175some important events and also keyboard hot key presses to the operating 176system. Enabling the hotkey functionality of thinkpad-acpi signals the 177firmware that such a driver is present, and modifies how the ThinkPad 178firmware will behave in many situations. 179 180The driver enables the HKEY ("hot key") event reporting automatically 181when loaded, and disables it when it is removed. 182 183The driver will report HKEY events in the following format: 184 185 ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 0000xxxx 186 187Some of these events refer to hot key presses, but not all of them. 188 189The driver will generate events over the input layer for hot keys and 190radio switches, and over the ACPI netlink layer for other events. The 191input layer support accepts the standard IOCTLs to remap the keycodes 192assigned to each hot key. 193 194The hot key bit mask allows some control over which hot keys generate 195events. If a key is "masked" (bit set to 0 in the mask), the firmware 196will handle it. If it is "unmasked", it signals the firmware that 197thinkpad-acpi would prefer to handle it, if the firmware would be so 198kind to allow it (and it often doesn't!). 199 200Not all bits in the mask can be modified. Not all bits that can be 201modified do anything. Not all hot keys can be individually controlled 202by the mask. Some models do not support the mask at all. The behaviour 203of the mask is, therefore, highly dependent on the ThinkPad model. 204 205The driver will filter out any unmasked hotkeys, so even if the firmware 206doesn't allow disabling an specific hotkey, the driver will not report 207events for unmasked hotkeys. 208 209Note that unmasking some keys prevents their default behavior. For 210example, if Fn+F5 is unmasked, that key will no longer enable/disable 211Bluetooth by itself in firmware. 212 213Note also that not all Fn key combinations are supported through ACPI 214depending on the ThinkPad model and firmware version. On those 215ThinkPads, it is still possible to support some extra hotkeys by 216polling the "CMOS NVRAM" at least 10 times per second. The driver 217attempts to enables this functionality automatically when required. 218 219procfs notes: 220 221The following commands can be written to the /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey file: 222 223 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 227 228The following commands have been deprecated and will cause the kernel 229to log a warning: 230 231 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- does nothing 232 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- returns an error 233 234The procfs interface does not support NVRAM polling control. So as to 235maintain maximum bug-to-bug compatibility, it does not report any masks, 236nor does it allow one to manipulate the hot key mask when the firmware 237does not support masks at all, even if NVRAM polling is in use. 238 239sysfs notes: 240 241 hotkey_bios_enabled: 242 DEPRECATED, WILL BE REMOVED SOON. 243 244 Returns 0. 245 246 hotkey_bios_mask: 247 DEPRECATED, DON'T USE, WILL BE REMOVED IN THE FUTURE. 248 249 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. 254 255 hotkey_enable: 256 DEPRECATED, WILL BE REMOVED SOON. 257 258 0: returns -EPERM 259 1: does nothing 260 261 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. 266 267 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. 274 275 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. 281 282 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. 287 288 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. 292 293 Warning: when in NVRAM mode, the volume up/down/mute 294 keys are synthesized according to changes in the mixer, 295 so you have to use volume up or volume down to unmute, 296 as per the ThinkPad volume mixer user interface. When 297 in ACPI event mode, volume up/down/mute are reported as 298 separate events, but this behaviour may be corrected in 299 future releases of this driver, in which case the 300 ThinkPad volume mixer user interface semantics will be 301 enforced. 302 303 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. 307 308 Setting hotkey_poll_freq to zero disables polling, and 309 will cause hot key presses that require NVRAM polling 310 to never be reported. 311 312 Setting hotkey_poll_freq too low will 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. 316 317 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. 322 323 This attribute has poll()/select() support. 324 325 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. 329 330 This attribute has poll()/select() support. 331 332 hotkey_report_mode: 333 Returns the state of the procfs ACPI event report mode 334 filter for hot keys. If it is set to 1 (the default), 335 all hot key presses are reported both through the input 336 layer and also as ACPI events through procfs (but not 337 through netlink). If it is set to 2, hot key presses 338 are reported only through the input layer. 339 340 This attribute is read-only in kernels 2.6.23 or later, 341 and read-write on earlier kernels. 342 343 May return -EPERM (write access locked out by module 344 parameter) or -EACCES (read-only). 345 346 wakeup_reason: 347 Set to 1 if the system is waking up because the user 348 requested a bay ejection. Set to 2 if the system is 349 waking up because the user requested the system to 350 undock. Set to zero for normal wake-ups or wake-ups 351 due to unknown reasons. 352 353 This attribute has poll()/select() support. 354 355 wakeup_hotunplug_complete: 356 Set to 1 if the system was waken up because of an 357 undock or bay ejection request, and that request 358 was successfully completed. At this point, it might 359 be useful to send the system back to sleep, at the 360 user's choice. Refer to HKEY events 0x4003 and 361 0x3003, below. 362 363 This attribute has poll()/select() support. 364 365input layer notes: 366 367A Hot key is mapped to a single input layer EV_KEY event, possibly 368followed by an EV_MSC MSC_SCAN event that shall contain that key's scan 369code. An EV_SYN event will always be generated to mark the end of the 370event block. 371 372Do not use the EV_MSC MSC_SCAN events to process keys. They are to be 373used as a helper to remap keys, only. They are particularly useful when 374remapping KEY_UNKNOWN keys. 375 376The events are available in an input device, with the following id: 377 378 Bus: BUS_HOST 379 vendor: 0x1014 (PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM) or 380 0x17aa (PCI_VENDOR_ID_LENOVO) 381 product: 0x5054 ("TP") 382 version: 0x4101 383 384The version will have its LSB incremented if the keymap changes in a 385backwards-compatible way. The MSB shall always be 0x41 for this input 386device. If the MSB is not 0x41, do not use the device as described in 387this section, as it is either something else (e.g. another input device 388exported by a thinkpad driver, such as HDAPS) or its functionality has 389been changed in a non-backwards compatible way. 390 391Adding other event types for other functionalities shall be considered a 392backwards-compatible change for this input device. 393 394Thinkpad-acpi Hot Key event map (version 0x4101): 395 396ACPI Scan 397event code Key Notes 398 3990x1001 0x00 FN+F1 - 4000x1002 0x01 FN+F2 IBM: battery (rare) 401 Lenovo: Screen lock 402 4030x1003 0x02 FN+F3 Many IBM models always report 404 this hot key, even with hot keys 405 disabled or with Fn+F3 masked 406 off 407 IBM: screen lock 408 Lenovo: battery 409 4100x1004 0x03 FN+F4 Sleep button (ACPI sleep button 411 semantics, i.e. sleep-to-RAM). 412 It is always generate some kind 413 of event, either the hot key 414 event or a ACPI sleep button 415 event. The firmware may 416 refuse to generate further FN+F4 417 key presses until a S3 or S4 ACPI 418 sleep cycle is performed or some 419 time passes. 420 4210x1005 0x04 FN+F5 Radio. Enables/disables 422 the internal Bluetooth hardware 423 and W-WAN card if left in control 424 of the firmware. Does not affect 425 the WLAN card. 426 Should be used to turn on/off all 427 radios (Bluetooth+W-WAN+WLAN), 428 really. 429 4300x1006 0x05 FN+F6 - 431 4320x1007 0x06 FN+F7 Video output cycle. 433 Do you feel lucky today? 434 4350x1008 0x07 FN+F8 IBM: toggle screen expand 436 Lenovo: configure UltraNav 437 4380x1009 0x08 FN+F9 - 439 .. .. .. 4400x100B 0x0A FN+F11 - 441 4420x100C 0x0B FN+F12 Sleep to disk. You are always 443 supposed to handle it yourself, 444 either through the ACPI event, 445 or through a hotkey event. 446 The firmware may refuse to 447 generate further FN+F4 key 448 press events until a S3 or S4 449 ACPI sleep cycle is performed, 450 or some time passes. 451 4520x100D 0x0C FN+BACKSPACE - 4530x100E 0x0D FN+INSERT - 4540x100F 0x0E FN+DELETE - 455 4560x1010 0x0F FN+HOME Brightness up. This key is 457 always handled by the firmware 458 in IBM ThinkPads, even when 459 unmasked. Just leave it alone. 460 For Lenovo ThinkPads with a new 461 BIOS, it has to be handled either 462 by the ACPI OSI, or by userspace. 463 The driver does the right thing, 464 never mess with this. 4650x1011 0x10 FN+END Brightness down. See brightness 466 up for details. 467 4680x1012 0x11 FN+PGUP ThinkLight toggle. This key is 469 always handled by the firmware, 470 even when unmasked. 471 4720x1013 0x12 FN+PGDOWN - 473 4740x1014 0x13 FN+SPACE Zoom key 475 4760x1015 0x14 VOLUME UP Internal mixer volume up. This 477 key is always handled by the 478 firmware, even when unmasked. 479 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing 480 this. 4810x1016 0x15 VOLUME DOWN Internal mixer volume up. This 482 key is always handled by the 483 firmware, even when unmasked. 484 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing 485 this. 4860x1017 0x16 MUTE Mute internal mixer. This 487 key is always handled by the 488 firmware, even when unmasked. 489 4900x1018 0x17 THINKPAD ThinkPad/Access IBM/Lenovo key 491 4920x1019 0x18 unknown 493.. .. .. 4940x1020 0x1F unknown 495 496The ThinkPad firmware does not allow one to differentiate when most hot 497keys are pressed or released (either that, or we don't know how to, yet). 498For these keys, the driver generates a set of events for a key press and 499immediately issues the same set of events for a key release. It is 500unknown by the driver if the ThinkPad firmware triggered these events on 501hot key press or release, but the firmware will do it for either one, not 502both. 503 504If a key is mapped to KEY_RESERVED, it generates no input events at all. 505If a key is mapped to KEY_UNKNOWN, it generates an input event that 506includes an scan code. If a key is mapped to anything else, it will 507generate input device EV_KEY events. 508 509In addition to the EV_KEY events, thinkpad-acpi may also issue EV_SW 510events for switches: 511 512SW_RFKILL_ALL T60 and later hardware rfkill rocker switch 513SW_TABLET_MODE Tablet ThinkPads HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A 514 515Non hot-key ACPI HKEY event map: 5160x5001 Lid closed 5170x5002 Lid opened 5180x5009 Tablet swivel: switched to tablet mode 5190x500A Tablet swivel: switched to normal mode 5200x7000 Radio Switch may have changed state 521 522The above events are not propagated by the driver, except for legacy 523compatibility purposes when hotkey_report_mode is set to 1. 524 5250x2304 System is waking up from suspend to undock 5260x2305 System is waking up from suspend to eject bay 5270x2404 System is waking up from hibernation to undock 5280x2405 System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay 5290x5010 Brightness level changed/control event 530 531The above events are never propagated by the driver. 532 5330x3003 Bay ejection (see 0x2x05) complete, can sleep again 5340x4003 Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again 5350x500B Tablet pen inserted into its storage bay 5360x500C Tablet pen removed from its storage bay 537 538The above events are propagated by the driver. 539 540Compatibility notes: 541 542ibm-acpi and thinkpad-acpi 0.15 (mainline kernels before 2.6.23) never 543supported the input layer, and sent events over the procfs ACPI event 544interface. 545 546To avoid sending duplicate events over the input layer and the ACPI 547event interface, thinkpad-acpi 0.16 implements a module parameter 548(hotkey_report_mode), and also a sysfs device attribute with the same 549name. 550 551Make no mistake here: userspace is expected to switch to using the input 552layer interface of thinkpad-acpi, together with the ACPI netlink event 553interface in kernels 2.6.23 and later, or with the ACPI procfs event 554interface in kernels 2.6.22 and earlier. 555 556If no hotkey_report_mode module parameter is specified (or it is set to 557zero), the driver defaults to mode 1 (see below), and on kernels 2.6.22 558and earlier, also allows one to change the hotkey_report_mode through 559sysfs. In kernels 2.6.23 and later, where the netlink ACPI event 560interface is available, hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed through 561sysfs (it is read-only). 562 563If the hotkey_report_mode module parameter is set to 1 or 2, it cannot 564be changed later through sysfs (any writes will return -EPERM to signal 565that hotkey_report_mode was locked. On 2.6.23 and later, where 566hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed at all, writes will return -EACCES). 567 568hotkey_report_mode set to 1 makes the driver export through the procfs 569ACPI event interface all hot key presses (which are *also* sent to the 570input layer). This is a legacy compatibility behaviour, and it is also 571the default mode of operation for the driver. 572 573hotkey_report_mode set to 2 makes the driver filter out the hot key 574presses from the procfs ACPI event interface, so these events will only 575be sent through the input layer. Userspace that has been updated to use 576the thinkpad-acpi input layer interface should set hotkey_report_mode to 5772. 578 579Hot key press events are never sent to the ACPI netlink event interface. 580Really up-to-date userspace under kernel 2.6.23 and later is to use the 581netlink interface and the input layer interface, and don't bother at all 582with hotkey_report_mode. 583 584 585Brightness hotkey notes: 586 587Don't mess with the brightness hotkeys in a Thinkpad. If you want 588notifications for OSD, use the sysfs backlight class event support. 589 590The driver will issue KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN events 591automatically for the cases were userspace has to do something to 592implement brightness changes. When you override these events, you will 593either fail to handle properly the ThinkPads that require explicit 594action to change backlight brightness, or the ThinkPads that require 595that no action be taken to work properly. 596 597 598Bluetooth 599--------- 600 601procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth 602sysfs device attribute: bluetooth_enable (deprecated) 603sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw" 604 605This feature shows the presence and current state of a ThinkPad 606Bluetooth device in the internal ThinkPad CDC slot. 607 608If the ThinkPad supports it, the Bluetooth state is stored in NVRAM, 609so it is kept across reboots and power-off. 610 611Procfs notes: 612 613If Bluetooth is installed, the following commands can be used: 614 615 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth 616 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth 617 618Sysfs notes: 619 620 If the Bluetooth CDC card is installed, it can be enabled / 621 disabled through the "bluetooth_enable" thinkpad-acpi device 622 attribute, and its current status can also be queried. 623 624 enable: 625 0: disables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is disabled 626 1: enables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is enabled. 627 628 Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill 629 class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year 630 2010. 631 632 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw": refer to 633 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details. 634 635 636Video output control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/video 637-------------------------------------------- 638 639This feature allows control over the devices used for video output - 640LCD, CRT or DVI (if available). The following commands are available: 641 642 echo lcd_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 643 echo lcd_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 644 echo crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 645 echo crt_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 646 echo dvi_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 647 echo dvi_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 648 echo auto_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 649 echo auto_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 650 echo expand_toggle > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 651 echo video_switch > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 652 653NOTE: Access to this feature is restricted to processes owning the 654CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for safety reasons, as it can interact badly 655enough with some versions of X.org to crash it. 656 657Each video output device can be enabled or disabled individually. 658Reading /proc/acpi/ibm/video shows the status of each device. 659 660Automatic video switching can be enabled or disabled. When automatic 661video switching is enabled, certain events (e.g. opening the lid, 662docking or undocking) cause the video output device to change 663automatically. While this can be useful, it also causes flickering 664and, on the X40, video corruption. By disabling automatic switching, 665the flickering or video corruption can be avoided. 666 667The video_switch command cycles through the available video outputs 668(it simulates the behavior of Fn-F7). 669 670Video expansion can be toggled through this feature. This controls 671whether the display is expanded to fill the entire LCD screen when a 672mode with less than full resolution is used. Note that the current 673video expansion status cannot be determined through this feature. 674 675Note that on many models (particularly those using Radeon graphics 676chips) the X driver configures the video card in a way which prevents 677Fn-F7 from working. This also disables the video output switching 678features of this driver, as it uses the same ACPI methods as 679Fn-F7. Video switching on the console should still work. 680 681UPDATE: refer to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000 682 683 684ThinkLight control 685------------------ 686 687procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/light 688sysfs attributes: as per LED class, for the "tpacpi::thinklight" LED 689 690procfs notes: 691 692The ThinkLight status can be read and set through the procfs interface. A 693few models which do not make the status available will show the ThinkLight 694status as "unknown". The available commands are: 695 696 echo on > /proc/acpi/ibm/light 697 echo off > /proc/acpi/ibm/light 698 699sysfs notes: 700 701The ThinkLight sysfs interface is documented by the LED class 702documentation, in Documentation/leds-class.txt. The ThinkLight LED name 703is "tpacpi::thinklight". 704 705Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the ThinkLight 706cannot be read or if it is unknown, thinkpad-acpi will report it as "off". 707It is impossible to know if the status returned through sysfs is valid. 708 709 710CMOS/UCMS control 711----------------- 712 713procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/cmos 714sysfs device attribute: cmos_command 715 716This feature is mostly used internally by the ACPI firmware to keep the legacy 717CMOS NVRAM bits in sync with the current machine state, and to record this 718state so that the ThinkPad will retain such settings across reboots. 719 720Some of these commands actually perform actions in some ThinkPad models, but 721this is expected to disappear more and more in newer models. As an example, in 722a T43 and in a X40, commands 12 and 13 still control the ThinkLight state for 723real, but commands 0 to 2 don't control the mixer anymore (they have been 724phased out) and just update the NVRAM. 725 726The range of valid cmos command numbers is 0 to 21, but not all have an 727effect and the behavior varies from model to model. Here is the behavior 728on the X40 (tpb is the ThinkPad Buttons utility): 729 730 0 - Related to "Volume down" key press 731 1 - Related to "Volume up" key press 732 2 - Related to "Mute on" key press 733 3 - Related to "Access IBM" key press 734 4 - Related to "LCD brightness up" key press 735 5 - Related to "LCD brightness down" key press 736 11 - Related to "toggle screen expansion" key press/function 737 12 - Related to "ThinkLight on" 738 13 - Related to "ThinkLight off" 739 14 - Related to "ThinkLight" key press (toggle ThinkLight) 740 741The cmos command interface is prone to firmware split-brain problems, as 742in newer ThinkPads it is just a compatibility layer. Do not use it, it is 743exported just as a debug tool. 744 745 746LED control 747----------- 748 749procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/led 750sysfs attributes: as per LED class, see below for names 751 752Some of the LED indicators can be controlled through this feature. On 753some older ThinkPad models, it is possible to query the status of the 754LED indicators as well. Newer ThinkPads cannot query the real status 755of the LED indicators. 756 757Because misuse of the LEDs could induce an unaware user to perform 758dangerous actions (like undocking or ejecting a bay device while the 759buses are still active), or mask an important alarm (such as a nearly 760empty battery, or a broken battery), access to most LEDs is 761restricted. 762 763Unrestricted access to all LEDs requires that thinkpad-acpi be 764compiled with the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_UNSAFE_LEDS option enabled. 765Distributions must never enable this option. Individual users that 766are aware of the consequences are welcome to enabling it. 767 768procfs notes: 769 770The available commands are: 771 772 echo '<LED number> on' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led 773 echo '<LED number> off' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led 774 echo '<LED number> blink' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led 775 776The <LED number> range is 0 to 15. The set of LEDs that can be 777controlled varies from model to model. Here is the common ThinkPad 778mapping: 779 780 0 - power 781 1 - battery (orange) 782 2 - battery (green) 783 3 - UltraBase/dock 784 4 - UltraBay 785 5 - UltraBase battery slot 786 6 - (unknown) 787 7 - standby 788 8 - dock status 1 789 9 - dock status 2 790 10, 11 - (unknown) 791 12 - thinkvantage 792 13, 14, 15 - (unknown) 793 794All of the above can be turned on and off and can be made to blink. 795 796sysfs notes: 797 798The ThinkPad LED sysfs interface is described in detail by the LED class 799documentation, in Documentation/leds-class.txt. 800 801The LEDs are named (in LED ID order, from 0 to 12): 802"tpacpi::power", "tpacpi:orange:batt", "tpacpi:green:batt", 803"tpacpi::dock_active", "tpacpi::bay_active", "tpacpi::dock_batt", 804"tpacpi::unknown_led", "tpacpi::standby", "tpacpi::dock_status1", 805"tpacpi::dock_status2", "tpacpi::unknown_led2", "tpacpi::unknown_led3", 806"tpacpi::thinkvantage". 807 808Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the LED 809indicators cannot be read due to an error, thinkpad-acpi will report it as 810a brightness of zero (same as LED off). 811 812If the thinkpad firmware doesn't support reading the current status, 813trying to read the current LED brightness will just return whatever 814brightness was last written to that attribute. 815 816These LEDs can blink using hardware acceleration. To request that a 817ThinkPad indicator LED should blink in hardware accelerated mode, use the 818"timer" trigger, and leave the delay_on and delay_off parameters set to 819zero (to request hardware acceleration autodetection). 820 821LEDs that are known not to exist in a given ThinkPad model are not 822made available through the sysfs interface. If you have a dock and you 823notice there are LEDs listed for your ThinkPad that do not exist (and 824are not in the dock), or if you notice that there are missing LEDs, 825a report to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is appreciated. 826 827 828ACPI sounds -- /proc/acpi/ibm/beep 829---------------------------------- 830 831The BEEP method is used internally by the ACPI firmware to provide 832audible alerts in various situations. This feature allows the same 833sounds to be triggered manually. 834 835The commands are non-negative integer numbers: 836 837 echo <number> >/proc/acpi/ibm/beep 838 839The valid <number> range is 0 to 17. Not all numbers trigger sounds 840and the sounds vary from model to model. Here is the behavior on the 841X40: 842 843 0 - stop a sound in progress (but use 17 to stop 16) 844 2 - two beeps, pause, third beep ("low battery") 845 3 - single beep 846 4 - high, followed by low-pitched beep ("unable") 847 5 - single beep 848 6 - very high, followed by high-pitched beep ("AC/DC") 849 7 - high-pitched beep 850 9 - three short beeps 851 10 - very long beep 852 12 - low-pitched beep 853 15 - three high-pitched beeps repeating constantly, stop with 0 854 16 - one medium-pitched beep repeating constantly, stop with 17 855 17 - stop 16 856 857 858Temperature sensors 859------------------- 860 861procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal 862sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") temp*_input 863 864Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but only 865expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods. This 866feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors on older 867ThinkPads, and up to sixteen different sensors on newer ThinkPads. 868 869For example, on the X40, a typical output may be: 870temperatures: 42 42 45 41 36 -128 33 -128 871 872On the T43/p, a typical output may be: 873temperatures: 48 48 36 52 38 -128 31 -128 48 52 48 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128 874 875The mapping of thermal sensors to physical locations varies depending on 876system-board model (and thus, on ThinkPad model). 877 878http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors is a public wiki page that 879tries to track down these locations for various models. 880 881Most (newer?) models seem to follow this pattern: 882 8831: CPU 8842: (depends on model) 8853: (depends on model) 8864: GPU 8875: Main battery: main sensor 8886: Bay battery: main sensor 8897: Main battery: secondary sensor 8908: Bay battery: secondary sensor 8919-15: (depends on model) 892 893For the R51 (source: Thomas Gruber): 8942: Mini-PCI 8953: Internal HDD 896 897For the T43, T43/p (source: Shmidoax/Thinkwiki.org) 898http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p 8992: System board, left side (near PCMCIA slot), reported as HDAPS temp 9003: PCMCIA slot 9019: MCH (northbridge) to DRAM Bus 90210: Clock-generator, mini-pci card and ICH (southbridge), under Mini-PCI 903 card, under touchpad 90411: Power regulator, underside of system board, below F2 key 905 906The A31 has a very atypical layout for the thermal sensors 907(source: Milos Popovic, http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_A31) 9081: CPU 9092: Main Battery: main sensor 9103: Power Converter 9114: Bay Battery: main sensor 9125: MCH (northbridge) 9136: PCMCIA/ambient 9147: Main Battery: secondary sensor 9158: Bay Battery: secondary sensor 916 917 918Procfs notes: 919 Readings from sensors that are not available return -128. 920 No commands can be written to this file. 921 922Sysfs notes: 923 Sensors that are not available return the ENXIO error. This 924 status may change at runtime, as there are hotplug thermal 925 sensors, like those inside the batteries and docks. 926 927 thinkpad-acpi thermal sensors are reported through the hwmon 928 subsystem, and follow all of the hwmon guidelines at 929 Documentation/hwmon. 930 931 932EXPERIMENTAL: Embedded controller register dump -- /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump 933------------------------------------------------------------------------ 934 935This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation 936directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE 937WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the 938experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. 939 940This feature dumps the values of 256 embedded controller 941registers. Values which have changed since the last time the registers 942were dumped are marked with a star: 943 944[root@x40 ibm-acpi]# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump 945EC +00 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +0a +0b +0c +0d +0e +0f 946EC 0x00: a7 47 87 01 fe 96 00 08 01 00 cb 00 00 00 40 00 947EC 0x10: 00 00 ff ff f4 3c 87 09 01 ff 42 01 ff ff 0d 00 948EC 0x20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 43 00 00 80 949EC 0x30: 01 07 1a 00 30 04 00 00 *85 00 00 10 00 50 00 00 950EC 0x40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 951EC 0x50: 00 c0 02 0d 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 *bc *02 *bc 952EC 0x60: *02 *bc *02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 953EC 0x70: 00 00 00 00 00 12 30 40 *24 *26 *2c *27 *20 80 *1f 80 954EC 0x80: 00 00 00 06 *37 *0e 03 00 00 00 0e 07 00 00 00 00 955EC 0x90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 956EC 0xa0: *ff 09 ff 09 ff ff *64 00 *00 *00 *a2 41 *ff *ff *e0 00 957EC 0xb0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 958EC 0xc0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 959EC 0xd0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 960EC 0xe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 20 49 04 24 06 55 03 961EC 0xf0: 31 55 48 54 35 38 57 57 08 2f 45 73 07 65 6c 1a 962 963This feature can be used to determine the register holding the fan 964speed on some models. To do that, do the following: 965 966 - make sure the battery is fully charged 967 - make sure the fan is running 968 - run 'cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump' several times, once per second or so 969 970The first step makes sure various charging-related values don't 971vary. The second ensures that the fan-related values do vary, since 972the fan speed fluctuates a bit. The third will (hopefully) mark the 973fan register with a star: 974 975[root@x40 ibm-acpi]# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump 976EC +00 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +0a +0b +0c +0d +0e +0f 977EC 0x00: a7 47 87 01 fe 96 00 08 01 00 cb 00 00 00 40 00 978EC 0x10: 00 00 ff ff f4 3c 87 09 01 ff 42 01 ff ff 0d 00 979EC 0x20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 43 00 00 80 980EC 0x30: 01 07 1a 00 30 04 00 00 85 00 00 10 00 50 00 00 981EC 0x40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 982EC 0x50: 00 c0 02 0d 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 bc 02 bc 983EC 0x60: 02 bc 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 984EC 0x70: 00 00 00 00 00 12 30 40 24 27 2c 27 21 80 1f 80 985EC 0x80: 00 00 00 06 *be 0d 03 00 00 00 0e 07 00 00 00 00 986EC 0x90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 987EC 0xa0: ff 09 ff 09 ff ff 64 00 00 00 a2 41 ff ff e0 00 988EC 0xb0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 989EC 0xc0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 990EC 0xd0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 991EC 0xe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 20 49 04 24 06 55 03 992EC 0xf0: 31 55 48 54 35 38 57 57 08 2f 45 73 07 65 6c 1a 993 994Another set of values that varies often is the temperature 995readings. Since temperatures don't change vary fast, you can take 996several quick dumps to eliminate them. 997 998You can use a similar method to figure out the meaning of other 999embedded controller registers - e.g. make sure nothing else changes 1000except the charging or discharging battery to determine which 1001registers contain the current battery capacity, etc. If you experiment 1002with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with 1003a description of the conditions when they were taken.) 1004 1005 1006LCD brightness control 1007---------------------- 1008 1009procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness 1010sysfs backlight device "thinkpad_screen" 1011 1012This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad 1013models which don't have a hardware brightness slider. 1014 1015It has some limitations: the LCD backlight cannot be actually turned 1016on or off by this interface, it just controls the backlight brightness 1017level. 1018 1019On IBM (and some of the earlier Lenovo) ThinkPads, the backlight control 1020has eight brightness levels, ranging from 0 to 7. Some of the levels 1021may not be distinct. Later Lenovo models that implement the ACPI 1022display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging 1023from 0 to 15. 1024 1025For IBM ThinkPads, there are two interfaces to the firmware for direct 1026brightness control, EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be 1027used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects 1028EC mode, brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC 1029mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered across 1030shutdown/reboot). 1031 1032The driver tries to select which interface to use from a table of 1033defaults for each ThinkPad model. If it makes a wrong choice, please 1034report this as a bug, so that we can fix it. 1035 1036Lenovo ThinkPads only support brightness_mode=2 (UCMS). 1037 1038When display backlight brightness controls are available through the 1039standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct 1040ThinkPad-specific interface. The driver will disable its native 1041backlight brightness control interface if it detects that the standard 1042ACPI interface is available in the ThinkPad. 1043 1044The brightness_enable module parameter can be used to control whether 1045the LCD brightness control feature will be enabled when available. 1046brightness_enable=0 forces it to be disabled. brightness_enable=1 1047forces it to be enabled when available, even if the standard ACPI 1048interface is also available. 1049 1050Procfs notes: 1051 1052 The available commands are: 1053 1054 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness 1055 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness 1056 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness 1057 1058Sysfs notes: 1059 1060The interface is implemented through the backlight sysfs class, which is 1061poorly documented at this time. 1062 1063Locate the thinkpad_screen device under /sys/class/backlight, and inside 1064it there will be the following attributes: 1065 1066 max_brightness: 1067 Reads the maximum brightness the hardware can be set to. 1068 The minimum is always zero. 1069 1070 actual_brightness: 1071 Reads what brightness the screen is set to at this instant. 1072 1073 brightness: 1074 Writes request the driver to change brightness to the 1075 given value. Reads will tell you what brightness the 1076 driver is trying to set the display to when "power" is set 1077 to zero and the display has not been dimmed by a kernel 1078 power management event. 1079 1080 power: 1081 power management mode, where 0 is "display on", and 1 to 3 1082 will dim the display backlight to brightness level 0 1083 because thinkpad-acpi cannot really turn the backlight 1084 off. Kernel power management events can temporarily 1085 increase the current power management level, i.e. they can 1086 dim the display. 1087 1088 1089WARNING: 1090 1091 Whatever you do, do NOT ever call thinkpad-acpi backlight-level change 1092 interface and the ACPI-based backlight level change interface 1093 (available on newer BIOSes, and driven by the Linux ACPI video driver) 1094 at the same time. The two will interact in bad ways, do funny things, 1095 and maybe reduce the life of the backlight lamps by needlessly kicking 1096 its level up and down at every change. 1097 1098 1099Volume control (Console Audio control) 1100-------------------------------------- 1101 1102procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/volume 1103ALSA: "ThinkPad Console Audio Control", default ID: "ThinkPadEC" 1104 1105NOTE: by default, the volume control interface operates in read-only 1106mode, as it is supposed to be used for on-screen-display purposes. 1107The read/write mode can be enabled through the use of the 1108"volume_control=1" module parameter. 1109 1110NOTE: distros are urged to not enable volume_control by default, this 1111should be done by the local admin only. The ThinkPad UI is for the 1112console audio control to be done through the volume keys only, and for 1113the desktop environment to just provide on-screen-display feedback. 1114Software volume control should be done only in the main AC97/HDA 1115mixer. 1116 1117 1118About the ThinkPad Console Audio control: 1119 1120ThinkPads have a built-in amplifier and muting circuit that drives the 1121console headphone and speakers. This circuit is after the main AC97 1122or HDA mixer in the audio path, and under exclusive control of the 1123firmware. 1124 1125ThinkPads have three special hotkeys to interact with the console 1126audio control: volume up, volume down and mute. 1127 1128It is worth noting that the normal way the mute function works (on 1129ThinkPads that do not have a "mute LED") is: 1130 11311. Press mute to mute. It will *always* mute, you can press it as 1132 many times as you want, and the sound will remain mute. 1133 11342. Press either volume key to unmute the ThinkPad (it will _not_ 1135 change the volume, it will just unmute). 1136 1137This is a very superior design when compared to the cheap software-only 1138mute-toggle solution found on normal consumer laptops: you can be 1139absolutely sure the ThinkPad will not make noise if you press the mute 1140button, no matter the previous state. 1141 1142The IBM ThinkPads, and the earlier Lenovo ThinkPads have variable-gain 1143amplifiers driving the speakers and headphone output, and the firmware 1144also handles volume control for the headphone and speakers on these 1145ThinkPads without any help from the operating system (this volume 1146control stage exists after the main AC97 or HDA mixer in the audio 1147path). 1148 1149The newer Lenovo models only have firmware mute control, and depend on 1150the main HDA mixer to do volume control (which is done by the operating 1151system). In this case, the volume keys are filtered out for unmute 1152key press (there are some firmware bugs in this area) and delivered as 1153normal key presses to the operating system (thinkpad-acpi is not 1154involved). 1155 1156 1157The ThinkPad-ACPI volume control: 1158 1159The preferred way to interact with the Console Audio control is the 1160ALSA interface. 1161 1162The legacy procfs interface allows one to read the current state, 1163and if volume control is enabled, accepts the following commands: 1164 1165 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume 1166 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume 1167 echo mute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume 1168 echo unmute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume 1169 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume 1170 1171The <level> number range is 0 to 14 although not all of them may be 1172distinct. To unmute the volume after the mute command, use either the 1173up or down command (the level command will not unmute the volume), or 1174the unmute command. 1175 1176You can use the volume_capabilities parameter to tell the driver 1177whether your thinkpad has volume control or mute-only control: 1178volume_capabilities=1 for mixers with mute and volume control, 1179volume_capabilities=2 for mixers with only mute control. 1180 1181If the driver misdetects the capabilities for your ThinkPad model, 1182please report this to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, so that we 1183can update the driver. 1184 1185There are two strategies for volume control. To select which one 1186should be used, use the volume_mode module parameter: volume_mode=1 1187selects EC mode, and volume_mode=3 selects EC mode with NVRAM backing 1188(so that volume/mute changes are remembered across shutdown/reboot). 1189 1190The driver will operate in volume_mode=3 by default. If that does not 1191work well on your ThinkPad model, please report this to 1192ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. 1193 1194The driver supports the standard ALSA module parameters. If the ALSA 1195mixer is disabled, the driver will disable all volume functionality. 1196 1197 1198Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable 1199--------------------------------------------------------- 1200 1201procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan 1202sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") fan1_input, pwm1, 1203 pwm1_enable, fan2_input 1204sysfs hwmon driver attributes: fan_watchdog 1205 1206NOTE NOTE NOTE: fan control operations are disabled by default for 1207safety reasons. To enable them, the module parameter "fan_control=1" 1208must be given to thinkpad-acpi. 1209 1210This feature attempts to show the current fan speed, control mode and 1211other fan data that might be available. The speed is read directly 1212from the hardware registers of the embedded controller. This is known 1213to work on later R, T, X and Z series ThinkPads but may show a bogus 1214value on other models. 1215 1216Some Lenovo ThinkPads support a secondary fan. This fan cannot be 1217controlled separately, it shares the main fan control. 1218 1219Fan levels: 1220 1221Most ThinkPad fans work in "levels" at the firmware interface. Level 0 1222stops the fan. The higher the level, the higher the fan speed, although 1223adjacent levels often map to the same fan speed. 7 is the highest 1224level, where the fan reaches the maximum recommended speed. 1225 1226Level "auto" means the EC changes the fan level according to some 1227internal algorithm, usually based on readings from the thermal sensors. 1228 1229There is also a "full-speed" level, also known as "disengaged" level. 1230In this level, the EC disables the speed-locked closed-loop fan control, 1231and drives the fan as fast as it can go, which might exceed hardware 1232limits, so use this level with caution. 1233 1234The fan usually ramps up or down slowly from one speed to another, and 1235it is normal for the EC to take several seconds to react to fan 1236commands. The full-speed level may take up to two minutes to ramp up to 1237maximum speed, and in some ThinkPads, the tachometer readings go stale 1238while the EC is transitioning to the full-speed level. 1239 1240WARNING WARNING WARNING: do not leave the fan disabled unless you are 1241monitoring all of the temperature sensor readings and you are ready to 1242enable it if necessary to avoid overheating. 1243 1244An enabled fan in level "auto" may stop spinning if the EC decides the 1245ThinkPad is cool enough and doesn't need the extra airflow. This is 1246normal, and the EC will spin the fan up if the various thermal readings 1247rise too much. 1248 1249On the X40, this seems to depend on the CPU and HDD temperatures. 1250Specifically, the fan is turned on when either the CPU temperature 1251climbs to 56 degrees or the HDD temperature climbs to 46 degrees. The 1252fan is turned off when the CPU temperature drops to 49 degrees and the 1253HDD temperature drops to 41 degrees. These thresholds cannot 1254currently be controlled. 1255 1256The ThinkPad's ACPI DSDT code will reprogram the fan on its own when 1257certain conditions are met. It will override any fan programming done 1258through thinkpad-acpi. 1259 1260The thinkpad-acpi kernel driver can be programmed to revert the fan 1261level to a safe setting if userspace does not issue one of the procfs 1262fan commands: "enable", "disable", "level" or "watchdog", or if there 1263are no writes to pwm1_enable (or to pwm1 *if and only if* pwm1_enable is 1264set to 1, manual mode) within a configurable amount of time of up to 1265120 seconds. This functionality is called fan safety watchdog. 1266 1267Note that the watchdog timer stops after it enables the fan. It will be 1268rearmed again automatically (using the same interval) when one of the 1269above mentioned fan commands is received. The fan watchdog is, 1270therefore, not suitable to protect against fan mode changes made through 1271means other than the "enable", "disable", and "level" procfs fan 1272commands, or the hwmon fan control sysfs interface. 1273 1274Procfs notes: 1275 1276The fan may be enabled or disabled with the following commands: 1277 1278 echo enable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan 1279 echo disable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan 1280 1281Placing a fan on level 0 is the same as disabling it. Enabling a fan 1282will try to place it in a safe level if it is too slow or disabled. 1283 1284The fan level can be controlled with the command: 1285 1286 echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan 1287 1288Where <level> is an integer from 0 to 7, or one of the words "auto" or 1289"full-speed" (without the quotes). Not all ThinkPads support the "auto" 1290and "full-speed" levels. The driver accepts "disengaged" as an alias for 1291"full-speed", and reports it as "disengaged" for backwards 1292compatibility. 1293 1294On the X31 and X40 (and ONLY on those models), the fan speed can be 1295controlled to a certain degree. Once the fan is running, it can be 1296forced to run faster or slower with the following command: 1297 1298 echo 'speed <speed>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan 1299 1300The sustainable range of fan speeds on the X40 appears to be from about 13013700 to about 7350. Values outside this range either do not have any 1302effect or the fan speed eventually settles somewhere in that range. The 1303fan cannot be stopped or started with this command. This functionality 1304is incomplete, and not available through the sysfs interface. 1305 1306To program the safety watchdog, use the "watchdog" command. 1307 1308 echo 'watchdog <interval in seconds>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan 1309 1310If you want to disable the watchdog, use 0 as the interval. 1311 1312Sysfs notes: 1313 1314The sysfs interface follows the hwmon subsystem guidelines for the most 1315part, and the exception is the fan safety watchdog. 1316 1317Writes to any of the sysfs attributes may return the EINVAL error if 1318that operation is not supported in a given ThinkPad or if the parameter 1319is out-of-bounds, and EPERM if it is forbidden. They may also return 1320EINTR (interrupted system call), and EIO (I/O error while trying to talk 1321to the firmware). 1322 1323Features not yet implemented by the driver return ENOSYS. 1324 1325hwmon device attribute pwm1_enable: 1326 0: PWM offline (fan is set to full-speed mode) 1327 1: Manual PWM control (use pwm1 to set fan level) 1328 2: Hardware PWM control (EC "auto" mode) 1329 3: reserved (Software PWM control, not implemented yet) 1330 1331 Modes 0 and 2 are not supported by all ThinkPads, and the 1332 driver is not always able to detect this. If it does know a 1333 mode is unsupported, it will return -EINVAL. 1334 1335hwmon device attribute pwm1: 1336 Fan level, scaled from the firmware values of 0-7 to the hwmon 1337 scale of 0-255. 0 means fan stopped, 255 means highest normal 1338 speed (level 7). 1339 1340 This attribute only commands the fan if pmw1_enable is set to 1 1341 (manual PWM control). 1342 1343hwmon device attribute fan1_input: 1344 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM. May go stale on certain 1345 ThinkPads while the EC transitions the PWM to offline mode, 1346 which can take up to two minutes. May return rubbish on older 1347 ThinkPads. 1348 1349hwmon device attribute fan2_input: 1350 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM, for the secondary fan. 1351 Available only on some ThinkPads. If the secondary fan is 1352 not installed, will always read 0. 1353 1354hwmon driver attribute fan_watchdog: 1355 Fan safety watchdog timer interval, in seconds. Minimum is 1356 1 second, maximum is 120 seconds. 0 disables the watchdog. 1357 1358To stop the fan: set pwm1 to zero, and pwm1_enable to 1. 1359 1360To start the fan in a safe mode: set pwm1_enable to 2. If that fails 1361with EINVAL, try to set pwm1_enable to 1 and pwm1 to at least 128 (255 1362would be the safest choice, though). 1363 1364 1365WAN 1366--- 1367 1368procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/wan 1369sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable (deprecated) 1370sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw" 1371 1372This feature shows the presence and current state of the built-in 1373Wireless WAN device. 1374 1375If the ThinkPad supports it, the WWAN state is stored in NVRAM, 1376so it is kept across reboots and power-off. 1377 1378It was tested on a Lenovo ThinkPad X60. It should probably work on other 1379ThinkPad models which come with this module installed. 1380 1381Procfs notes: 1382 1383If the W-WAN card is installed, the following commands can be used: 1384 1385 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan 1386 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan 1387 1388Sysfs notes: 1389 1390 If the W-WAN card is installed, it can be enabled / 1391 disabled through the "wwan_enable" thinkpad-acpi device 1392 attribute, and its current status can also be queried. 1393 1394 enable: 1395 0: disables WWAN card / WWAN card is disabled 1396 1: enables WWAN card / WWAN card is enabled. 1397 1398 Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill 1399 class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year 1400 2010. 1401 1402 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw": refer to 1403 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details. 1404 1405 1406EXPERIMENTAL: UWB 1407----------------- 1408 1409This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because it has not been extensively 1410tested and validated in various ThinkPad models yet. The feature may not 1411work as expected. USE WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply 1412the experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. 1413 1414sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw" 1415 1416This feature exports an rfkill controller for the UWB device, if one is 1417present and enabled in the BIOS. 1418 1419Sysfs notes: 1420 1421 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw": refer to 1422 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details. 1423 1424 1425Multiple Commands, Module Parameters 1426------------------------------------ 1427 1428Multiple commands can be written to the proc files in one shot by 1429separating them with commas, for example: 1430 1431 echo enable,0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey 1432 echo lcd_disable,crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video 1433 1434Commands can also be specified when loading the thinkpad-acpi module, 1435for example: 1436 1437 modprobe thinkpad_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff video=auto_disable 1438 1439 1440Enabling debugging output 1441------------------------- 1442 1443The module takes a debug parameter which can be used to selectively 1444enable various classes of debugging output, for example: 1445 1446 modprobe thinkpad_acpi debug=0xffff 1447 1448will enable all debugging output classes. It takes a bitmask, so 1449to enable more than one output class, just add their values. 1450 1451 Debug bitmask Description 1452 0x8000 Disclose PID of userspace programs 1453 accessing some functions of the driver 1454 0x0001 Initialization and probing 1455 0x0002 Removal 1456 0x0004 RF Transmitter control (RFKILL) 1457 (bluetooth, WWAN, UWB...) 1458 0x0008 HKEY event interface, hotkeys 1459 0x0010 Fan control 1460 0x0020 Backlight brightness 1461 0x0040 Audio mixer/volume control 1462 1463There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging 1464information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems. 1465 1466The level of debugging information output by the driver can be changed 1467at runtime through sysfs, using the driver attribute debug_level. The 1468attribute takes the same bitmask as the debug module parameter above. 1469 1470 1471Force loading of module 1472----------------------- 1473 1474If thinkpad-acpi refuses to detect your ThinkPad, you can try to specify 1475the module parameter force_load=1. Regardless of whether this works or 1476not, please contact ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net with a report. 1477 1478 1479Sysfs interface changelog: 1480 14810x000100: Initial sysfs support, as a single platform driver and 1482 device. 14830x000200: Hot key support for 32 hot keys, and radio slider switch 1484 support. 14850x010000: Hot keys are now handled by default over the input 1486 layer, the radio switch generates input event EV_RADIO, 1487 and the driver enables hot key handling by default in 1488 the firmware. 1489 14900x020000: ABI fix: added a separate hwmon platform device and 1491 driver, which must be located by name (thinkpad) 1492 and the hwmon class for libsensors4 (lm-sensors 3) 1493 compatibility. Moved all hwmon attributes to this 1494 new platform device. 1495 14960x020100: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling 1497 support. If you must, use it to know you should not 1498 start a userspace NVRAM poller (allows to detect when 1499 NVRAM is compiled out by the user because it is 1500 unneeded/undesired in the first place). 15010x020101: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling 1502 and proper hotkey_mask semantics (version 8 of the 1503 NVRAM polling patch). Some development snapshots of 1504 0.18 had an earlier version that did strange things 1505 to hotkey_mask. 1506 15070x020200: Add poll()/select() support to the following attributes: 1508 hotkey_radio_sw, wakeup_hotunplug_complete, wakeup_reason 1509 15100x020300: hotkey enable/disable support removed, attributes 1511 hotkey_bios_enabled and hotkey_enable deprecated and 1512 marked for removal. 1513 15140x020400: Marker for 16 LEDs support. Also, LEDs that are known 1515 to not exist in a given model are not registered with 1516 the LED sysfs class anymore. 1517 15180x020500: Updated hotkey driver, hotkey_mask is always available 1519 and it is always able to disable hot keys. Very old 1520 thinkpads are properly supported. hotkey_bios_mask 1521 is deprecated and marked for removal. 1522 15230x020600: Marker for backlight change event support. 1524 15250x020700: Support for mute-only mixers. 1526 Volume control in read-only mode by default. 1527 Marker for ALSA mixer support.