| 		     ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver | 
 |  | 
 |                             Version 0.25 | 
 |                         October 16th,  2013 | 
 |  | 
 |                Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net> | 
 |              Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> | 
 |                       http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/ | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | This is a Linux driver for the IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptops. It | 
 | supports various features of these laptops which are accessible | 
 | through the ACPI and ACPI EC framework, but not otherwise fully | 
 | supported by the generic Linux ACPI drivers. | 
 |  | 
 | This driver used to be named ibm-acpi until kernel 2.6.21 and release | 
 | 0.13-20070314.  It used to be in the drivers/acpi tree, but it was | 
 | moved to the drivers/misc tree and renamed to thinkpad-acpi for kernel | 
 | 2.6.22, and release 0.14.  It was moved to drivers/platform/x86 for | 
 | kernel 2.6.29 and release 0.22. | 
 |  | 
 | The driver is named "thinkpad-acpi".  In some places, like module | 
 | names and log messages, "thinkpad_acpi" is used because of userspace | 
 | issues. | 
 |  | 
 | "tpacpi" is used as a shorthand where "thinkpad-acpi" would be too | 
 | long due to length limitations on some Linux kernel versions. | 
 |  | 
 | Status | 
 | ------ | 
 |  | 
 | The features currently supported are the following (see below for | 
 | detailed description): | 
 |  | 
 | 	- Fn key combinations | 
 | 	- Bluetooth enable and disable | 
 | 	- video output switching, expansion control | 
 | 	- ThinkLight on and off | 
 | 	- CMOS/UCMS control | 
 | 	- LED control | 
 | 	- ACPI sounds | 
 | 	- temperature sensors | 
 | 	- Experimental: embedded controller register dump | 
 | 	- LCD brightness control | 
 | 	- Volume control | 
 | 	- Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable | 
 | 	- WAN enable and disable | 
 | 	- UWB enable and disable | 
 |  | 
 | A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web | 
 | site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure | 
 | reports, especially if they add to or correct the compatibility table. | 
 | Please include the following information in your report: | 
 |  | 
 | 	- ThinkPad model name | 
 | 	- a copy of your ACPI tables, using the "acpidump" utility | 
 | 	- a copy of the output of dmidecode, with serial numbers | 
 | 	  and UUIDs masked off | 
 | 	- which driver features work and which don't | 
 | 	- the observed behavior of non-working features | 
 |  | 
 | Any other comments or patches are also more than welcome. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Installation | 
 | ------------ | 
 |  | 
 | If you are compiling this driver as included in the Linux kernel | 
 | sources, look for the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI Kconfig option. | 
 | It is located on the menu path: "Device Drivers" -> "X86 Platform | 
 | Specific Device Drivers" -> "ThinkPad ACPI Laptop Extras". | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Features | 
 | -------- | 
 |  | 
 | The driver exports two different interfaces to userspace, which can be | 
 | used to access the features it provides.  One is a legacy procfs-based | 
 | interface, which will be removed at some time in the future.  The other | 
 | is a new sysfs-based interface which is not complete yet. | 
 |  | 
 | The procfs interface creates the /proc/acpi/ibm directory.  There is a | 
 | file under that directory for each feature it supports.  The procfs | 
 | interface is mostly frozen, and will change very little if at all: it | 
 | will not be extended to add any new functionality in the driver, instead | 
 | all new functionality will be implemented on the sysfs interface. | 
 |  | 
 | The sysfs interface tries to blend in the generic Linux sysfs subsystems | 
 | and classes as much as possible.  Since some of these subsystems are not | 
 | yet ready or stabilized, it is expected that this interface will change, | 
 | and any and all userspace programs must deal with it. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Notes about the sysfs interface: | 
 |  | 
 | Unlike what was done with the procfs interface, correctness when talking | 
 | to the sysfs interfaces will be enforced, as will correctness in the | 
 | thinkpad-acpi's implementation of sysfs interfaces. | 
 |  | 
 | Also, any bugs in the thinkpad-acpi sysfs driver code or in the | 
 | thinkpad-acpi's implementation of the sysfs interfaces will be fixed for | 
 | maximum correctness, even if that means changing an interface in | 
 | non-compatible ways.  As these interfaces mature both in the kernel and | 
 | in thinkpad-acpi, such changes should become quite rare. | 
 |  | 
 | Applications interfacing to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interfaces must | 
 | follow all sysfs guidelines and correctly process all errors (the sysfs | 
 | interface makes extensive use of errors).  File descriptors and open / | 
 | close operations to the sysfs inodes must also be properly implemented. | 
 |  | 
 | The version of thinkpad-acpi's sysfs interface is exported by the driver | 
 | as a driver attribute (see below). | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs driver attributes are on the driver's sysfs attribute space, | 
 | for 2.6.23+ this is /sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_acpi/ and | 
 | /sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_hwmon/ | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs device attributes are on the thinkpad_acpi device sysfs attribute | 
 | space, for 2.6.23+ this is /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/. | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs device attributes for the sensors and fan are on the | 
 | thinkpad_hwmon device's sysfs attribute space, but you should locate it | 
 | looking for a hwmon device with the name attribute of "thinkpad", or | 
 | better yet, through libsensors. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Driver version | 
 | -------------- | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/driver | 
 | sysfs driver attribute: version | 
 |  | 
 | The driver name and version. No commands can be written to this file. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs interface version | 
 | ----------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | sysfs driver attribute: interface_version | 
 |  | 
 | Version of the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface, as an unsigned long | 
 | (output in hex format: 0xAAAABBCC), where: | 
 | 	AAAA - major revision | 
 | 	BB - minor revision | 
 | 	CC - bugfix revision | 
 |  | 
 | The sysfs interface version changelog for the driver can be found at the | 
 | end of this document.  Changes to the sysfs interface done by the kernel | 
 | subsystems are not documented here, nor are they tracked by this | 
 | attribute. | 
 |  | 
 | Changes to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface are only considered | 
 | non-experimental when they are submitted to Linux mainline, at which | 
 | point the changes in this interface are documented and interface_version | 
 | may be updated.  If you are using any thinkpad-acpi features not yet | 
 | sent to mainline for merging, you do so on your own risk: these features | 
 | may disappear, or be implemented in a different and incompatible way by | 
 | the time they are merged in Linux mainline. | 
 |  | 
 | Changes that are backwards-compatible by nature (e.g. the addition of | 
 | attributes that do not change the way the other attributes work) do not | 
 | always warrant an update of interface_version.  Therefore, one must | 
 | expect that an attribute might not be there, and deal with it properly | 
 | (an attribute not being there *is* a valid way to make it clear that a | 
 | feature is not available in sysfs). | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Hot keys | 
 | -------- | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey | 
 | sysfs device attribute: hotkey_* | 
 |  | 
 | In a ThinkPad, the ACPI HKEY handler is responsible for communicating | 
 | some important events and also keyboard hot key presses to the operating | 
 | system.  Enabling the hotkey functionality of thinkpad-acpi signals the | 
 | firmware that such a driver is present, and modifies how the ThinkPad | 
 | firmware will behave in many situations. | 
 |  | 
 | The driver enables the HKEY ("hot key") event reporting automatically | 
 | when loaded, and disables it when it is removed. | 
 |  | 
 | The driver will report HKEY events in the following format: | 
 |  | 
 | 	ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 0000xxxx | 
 |  | 
 | Some of these events refer to hot key presses, but not all of them. | 
 |  | 
 | The driver will generate events over the input layer for hot keys and | 
 | radio switches, and over the ACPI netlink layer for other events.  The | 
 | input layer support accepts the standard IOCTLs to remap the keycodes | 
 | assigned to each hot key. | 
 |  | 
 | The hot key bit mask allows some control over which hot keys generate | 
 | events.  If a key is "masked" (bit set to 0 in the mask), the firmware | 
 | will handle it.  If it is "unmasked", it signals the firmware that | 
 | thinkpad-acpi would prefer to handle it, if the firmware would be so | 
 | kind to allow it (and it often doesn't!). | 
 |  | 
 | Not all bits in the mask can be modified.  Not all bits that can be | 
 | modified do anything.  Not all hot keys can be individually controlled | 
 | by the mask.  Some models do not support the mask at all.  The behaviour | 
 | of the mask is, therefore, highly dependent on the ThinkPad model. | 
 |  | 
 | The driver will filter out any unmasked hotkeys, so even if the firmware | 
 | doesn't allow disabling an specific hotkey, the driver will not report | 
 | events for unmasked hotkeys. | 
 |  | 
 | Note that unmasking some keys prevents their default behavior.  For | 
 | example, if Fn+F5 is unmasked, that key will no longer enable/disable | 
 | Bluetooth by itself in firmware. | 
 |  | 
 | Note also that not all Fn key combinations are supported through ACPI | 
 | depending on the ThinkPad model and firmware version.  On those | 
 | ThinkPads, it is still possible to support some extra hotkeys by | 
 | polling the "CMOS NVRAM" at least 10 times per second.  The driver | 
 | attempts to enables this functionality automatically when required. | 
 |  | 
 | procfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | The following commands can be written to the /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey file: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo 0xffffffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- enable all hot keys | 
 | 	echo 0 > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- disable all possible hot keys | 
 | 	... any other 8-hex-digit mask ... | 
 | 	echo reset > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- restore the recommended mask | 
 |  | 
 | The following commands have been deprecated and will cause the kernel | 
 | to log a warning: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- does nothing | 
 | 	echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- returns an error | 
 |  | 
 | The procfs interface does not support NVRAM polling control.  So as to | 
 | maintain maximum bug-to-bug compatibility, it does not report any masks, | 
 | nor does it allow one to manipulate the hot key mask when the firmware | 
 | does not support masks at all, even if NVRAM polling is in use. | 
 |  | 
 | sysfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | 	hotkey_bios_enabled: | 
 | 		DEPRECATED, WILL BE REMOVED SOON. | 
 |  | 
 | 		Returns 0. | 
 |  | 
 | 	hotkey_bios_mask: | 
 | 		DEPRECATED, DON'T USE, WILL BE REMOVED IN THE FUTURE. | 
 |  | 
 | 		Returns the hot keys mask when thinkpad-acpi was loaded. | 
 | 		Upon module unload, the hot keys mask will be restored | 
 | 		to this value.   This is always 0x80c, because those are | 
 | 		the hotkeys that were supported by ancient firmware | 
 | 		without mask support. | 
 |  | 
 | 	hotkey_enable: | 
 | 		DEPRECATED, WILL BE REMOVED SOON. | 
 |  | 
 | 		0: returns -EPERM | 
 | 		1: does nothing | 
 |  | 
 | 	hotkey_mask: | 
 | 		bit mask to enable reporting (and depending on | 
 | 		the firmware, ACPI event generation) for each hot key | 
 | 		(see above).  Returns the current status of the hot keys | 
 | 		mask, and allows one to modify it. | 
 |  | 
 | 	hotkey_all_mask: | 
 | 		bit mask that should enable event reporting for all | 
 | 		supported hot keys, when echoed to hotkey_mask above. | 
 | 		Unless you know which events need to be handled | 
 | 		passively (because the firmware *will* handle them | 
 | 		anyway), do *not* use hotkey_all_mask.  Use | 
 | 		hotkey_recommended_mask, instead. You have been warned. | 
 |  | 
 | 	hotkey_recommended_mask: | 
 | 		bit mask that should enable event reporting for all | 
 | 		supported hot keys, except those which are always | 
 | 		handled by the firmware anyway.  Echo it to | 
 | 		hotkey_mask above, to use.  This is the default mask | 
 | 		used by the driver. | 
 |  | 
 | 	hotkey_source_mask: | 
 | 		bit mask that selects which hot keys will the driver | 
 | 		poll the NVRAM for.  This is auto-detected by the driver | 
 | 		based on the capabilities reported by the ACPI firmware, | 
 | 		but it can be overridden at runtime. | 
 |  | 
 | 		Hot keys whose bits are set in hotkey_source_mask are | 
 | 		polled for in NVRAM, and reported as hotkey events if | 
 | 		enabled in hotkey_mask.  Only a few hot keys are | 
 | 		available through CMOS NVRAM polling. | 
 |  | 
 | 		Warning: when in NVRAM mode, the volume up/down/mute | 
 | 		keys are synthesized according to changes in the mixer, | 
 | 		which uses a single volume up or volume down hotkey | 
 | 		press to unmute, as per the ThinkPad volume mixer user | 
 | 		interface.  When in ACPI event mode, volume up/down/mute | 
 | 		events are reported by the firmware and can behave | 
 | 		differently (and that behaviour changes with firmware | 
 | 		version -- not just with firmware models -- as well as | 
 | 		OSI(Linux) state). | 
 |  | 
 | 	hotkey_poll_freq: | 
 | 		frequency in Hz for hot key polling. It must be between | 
 | 		0 and 25 Hz.  Polling is only carried out when strictly | 
 | 		needed. | 
 |  | 
 | 		Setting hotkey_poll_freq to zero disables polling, and | 
 | 		will cause hot key presses that require NVRAM polling | 
 | 		to never be reported. | 
 |  | 
 | 		Setting hotkey_poll_freq too low may cause repeated | 
 | 		pressings of the same hot key to be misreported as a | 
 | 		single key press, or to not even be detected at all. | 
 | 		The recommended polling frequency is 10Hz. | 
 |  | 
 | 	hotkey_radio_sw: | 
 | 		If the ThinkPad has a hardware radio switch, this | 
 | 		attribute will read 0 if the switch is in the "radios | 
 | 		disabled" position, and 1 if the switch is in the | 
 | 		"radios enabled" position. | 
 |  | 
 | 		This attribute has poll()/select() support. | 
 |  | 
 | 	hotkey_tablet_mode: | 
 | 		If the ThinkPad has tablet capabilities, this attribute | 
 | 		will read 0 if the ThinkPad is in normal mode, and | 
 | 		1 if the ThinkPad is in tablet mode. | 
 |  | 
 | 		This attribute has poll()/select() support. | 
 |  | 
 | 	wakeup_reason: | 
 | 		Set to 1 if the system is waking up because the user | 
 | 		requested a bay ejection.  Set to 2 if the system is | 
 | 		waking up because the user requested the system to | 
 | 		undock.  Set to zero for normal wake-ups or wake-ups | 
 | 		due to unknown reasons. | 
 |  | 
 | 		This attribute has poll()/select() support. | 
 |  | 
 | 	wakeup_hotunplug_complete: | 
 | 		Set to 1 if the system was waken up because of an | 
 | 		undock or bay ejection request, and that request | 
 | 		was successfully completed.  At this point, it might | 
 | 		be useful to send the system back to sleep, at the | 
 | 		user's choice.  Refer to HKEY events 0x4003 and | 
 | 		0x3003, below. | 
 |  | 
 | 		This attribute has poll()/select() support. | 
 |  | 
 | input layer notes: | 
 |  | 
 | A Hot key is mapped to a single input layer EV_KEY event, possibly | 
 | followed by an EV_MSC MSC_SCAN event that shall contain that key's scan | 
 | code.  An EV_SYN event will always be generated to mark the end of the | 
 | event block. | 
 |  | 
 | Do not use the EV_MSC MSC_SCAN events to process keys.  They are to be | 
 | used as a helper to remap keys, only.  They are particularly useful when | 
 | remapping KEY_UNKNOWN keys. | 
 |  | 
 | The events are available in an input device, with the following id: | 
 |  | 
 | 	Bus:		BUS_HOST | 
 | 	vendor:		0x1014 (PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM)  or | 
 | 			0x17aa (PCI_VENDOR_ID_LENOVO) | 
 | 	product:	0x5054 ("TP") | 
 | 	version:	0x4101 | 
 |  | 
 | The version will have its LSB incremented if the keymap changes in a | 
 | backwards-compatible way.  The MSB shall always be 0x41 for this input | 
 | device.  If the MSB is not 0x41, do not use the device as described in | 
 | this section, as it is either something else (e.g. another input device | 
 | exported by a thinkpad driver, such as HDAPS) or its functionality has | 
 | been changed in a non-backwards compatible way. | 
 |  | 
 | Adding other event types for other functionalities shall be considered a | 
 | backwards-compatible change for this input device. | 
 |  | 
 | Thinkpad-acpi Hot Key event map (version 0x4101): | 
 |  | 
 | ACPI	Scan | 
 | event	code	Key		Notes | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1001	0x00	FN+F1		- | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1002	0x01	FN+F2		IBM: battery (rare) | 
 | 				Lenovo: Screen lock | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1003	0x02	FN+F3		Many IBM models always report | 
 | 				this hot key, even with hot keys | 
 | 				disabled or with Fn+F3 masked | 
 | 				off | 
 | 				IBM: screen lock, often turns | 
 | 				off the ThinkLight as side-effect | 
 | 				Lenovo: battery | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1004	0x03	FN+F4		Sleep button (ACPI sleep button | 
 | 				semantics, i.e. sleep-to-RAM). | 
 | 				It always generates some kind | 
 | 				of event, either the hot key | 
 | 				event or an ACPI sleep button | 
 | 				event. The firmware may | 
 | 				refuse to generate further FN+F4 | 
 | 				key presses until a S3 or S4 ACPI | 
 | 				sleep cycle is performed or some | 
 | 				time passes. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1005	0x04	FN+F5		Radio.  Enables/disables | 
 | 				the internal Bluetooth hardware | 
 | 				and W-WAN card if left in control | 
 | 				of the firmware.  Does not affect | 
 | 				the WLAN card. | 
 | 				Should be used to turn on/off all | 
 | 				radios (Bluetooth+W-WAN+WLAN), | 
 | 				really. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1006	0x05	FN+F6		- | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1007	0x06	FN+F7		Video output cycle. | 
 | 				Do you feel lucky today? | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1008	0x07	FN+F8		IBM: toggle screen expand | 
 | 				Lenovo: configure UltraNav, | 
 | 				or toggle screen expand | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1009	0x08	FN+F9		- | 
 | 	..	..		.. | 
 | 0x100B	0x0A	FN+F11		- | 
 |  | 
 | 0x100C	0x0B	FN+F12		Sleep to disk.  You are always | 
 | 				supposed to handle it yourself, | 
 | 				either through the ACPI event, | 
 | 				or through a hotkey event. | 
 | 				The firmware may refuse to | 
 | 				generate further FN+F12 key | 
 | 				press events until a S3 or S4 | 
 | 				ACPI sleep cycle is performed, | 
 | 				or some time passes. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x100D	0x0C	FN+BACKSPACE	- | 
 | 0x100E	0x0D	FN+INSERT	- | 
 | 0x100F	0x0E	FN+DELETE	- | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1010	0x0F	FN+HOME		Brightness up.  This key is | 
 | 				always handled by the firmware | 
 | 				in IBM ThinkPads, even when | 
 | 				unmasked.  Just leave it alone. | 
 | 				For Lenovo ThinkPads with a new | 
 | 				BIOS, it has to be handled either | 
 | 				by the ACPI OSI, or by userspace. | 
 | 				The driver does the right thing, | 
 | 				never mess with this. | 
 | 0x1011	0x10	FN+END		Brightness down.  See brightness | 
 | 				up for details. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1012	0x11	FN+PGUP		ThinkLight toggle.  This key is | 
 | 				always handled by the firmware, | 
 | 				even when unmasked. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1013	0x12	FN+PGDOWN	- | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1014	0x13	FN+SPACE	Zoom key | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1015	0x14	VOLUME UP	Internal mixer volume up. This | 
 | 				key is always handled by the | 
 | 				firmware, even when unmasked. | 
 | 				NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing | 
 | 				this. | 
 | 0x1016	0x15	VOLUME DOWN	Internal mixer volume up. This | 
 | 				key is always handled by the | 
 | 				firmware, even when unmasked. | 
 | 				NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing | 
 | 				this. | 
 | 0x1017	0x16	MUTE		Mute internal mixer. This | 
 | 				key is always handled by the | 
 | 				firmware, even when unmasked. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1018	0x17	THINKPAD	ThinkPad/Access IBM/Lenovo key | 
 |  | 
 | 0x1019	0x18	unknown | 
 | ..	..	.. | 
 | 0x1020	0x1F	unknown | 
 |  | 
 | The ThinkPad firmware does not allow one to differentiate when most hot | 
 | keys are pressed or released (either that, or we don't know how to, yet). | 
 | For these keys, the driver generates a set of events for a key press and | 
 | immediately issues the same set of events for a key release.  It is | 
 | unknown by the driver if the ThinkPad firmware triggered these events on | 
 | hot key press or release, but the firmware will do it for either one, not | 
 | both. | 
 |  | 
 | If a key is mapped to KEY_RESERVED, it generates no input events at all. | 
 | If a key is mapped to KEY_UNKNOWN, it generates an input event that | 
 | includes an scan code.  If a key is mapped to anything else, it will | 
 | generate input device EV_KEY events. | 
 |  | 
 | In addition to the EV_KEY events, thinkpad-acpi may also issue EV_SW | 
 | events for switches: | 
 |  | 
 | SW_RFKILL_ALL	T60 and later hardware rfkill rocker switch | 
 | SW_TABLET_MODE	Tablet ThinkPads HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A | 
 |  | 
 | Non hotkey ACPI HKEY event map: | 
 | ------------------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | Events that are never propagated by the driver: | 
 |  | 
 | 0x2304		System is waking up from suspend to undock | 
 | 0x2305		System is waking up from suspend to eject bay | 
 | 0x2404		System is waking up from hibernation to undock | 
 | 0x2405		System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay | 
 | 0x5001		Lid closed | 
 | 0x5002		Lid opened | 
 | 0x5009		Tablet swivel: switched to tablet mode | 
 | 0x500A		Tablet swivel: switched to normal mode | 
 | 0x5010		Brightness level changed/control event | 
 | 0x6000		KEYBOARD: Numlock key pressed | 
 | 0x6005		KEYBOARD: Fn key pressed (TO BE VERIFIED) | 
 | 0x7000		Radio Switch may have changed state | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace: | 
 |  | 
 | 0x2313		ALARM: System is waking up from suspend because | 
 | 		the battery is nearly empty | 
 | 0x2413		ALARM: System is waking up from hibernation because | 
 | 		the battery is nearly empty | 
 | 0x3003		Bay ejection (see 0x2x05) complete, can sleep again | 
 | 0x3006		Bay hotplug request (hint to power up SATA link when | 
 | 		the optical drive tray is ejected) | 
 | 0x4003		Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again | 
 | 0x4010		Docked into hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock) | 
 | 0x4011		Undocked from hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock) | 
 | 0x500B		Tablet pen inserted into its storage bay | 
 | 0x500C		Tablet pen removed from its storage bay | 
 | 0x6011		ALARM: battery is too hot | 
 | 0x6012		ALARM: battery is extremely hot | 
 | 0x6021		ALARM: a sensor is too hot | 
 | 0x6022		ALARM: a sensor is extremely hot | 
 | 0x6030		System thermal table changed | 
 | 0x6040		Nvidia Optimus/AC adapter related (TO BE VERIFIED) | 
 |  | 
 | Battery nearly empty alarms are a last resort attempt to get the | 
 | operating system to hibernate or shutdown cleanly (0x2313), or shutdown | 
 | cleanly (0x2413) before power is lost.  They must be acted upon, as the | 
 | wake up caused by the firmware will have negated most safety nets... | 
 |  | 
 | When any of the "too hot" alarms happen, according to Lenovo the user | 
 | should suspend or hibernate the laptop (and in the case of battery | 
 | alarms, unplug the AC adapter) to let it cool down.  These alarms do | 
 | signal that something is wrong, they should never happen on normal | 
 | operating conditions. | 
 |  | 
 | The "extremely hot" alarms are emergencies.  According to Lenovo, the | 
 | operating system is to force either an immediate suspend or hibernate | 
 | cycle, or a system shutdown.  Obviously, something is very wrong if this | 
 | happens. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Brightness hotkey notes: | 
 |  | 
 | Don't mess with the brightness hotkeys in a Thinkpad.  If you want | 
 | notifications for OSD, use the sysfs backlight class event support. | 
 |  | 
 | The driver will issue KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN events | 
 | automatically for the cases were userspace has to do something to | 
 | implement brightness changes.  When you override these events, you will | 
 | either fail to handle properly the ThinkPads that require explicit | 
 | action to change backlight brightness, or the ThinkPads that require | 
 | that no action be taken to work properly. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Bluetooth | 
 | --------- | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth | 
 | sysfs device attribute: bluetooth_enable (deprecated) | 
 | sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw" | 
 |  | 
 | This feature shows the presence and current state of a ThinkPad | 
 | Bluetooth device in the internal ThinkPad CDC slot. | 
 |  | 
 | If the ThinkPad supports it, the Bluetooth state is stored in NVRAM, | 
 | so it is kept across reboots and power-off. | 
 |  | 
 | Procfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | If Bluetooth is installed, the following commands can be used: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth | 
 | 	echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | 	If the Bluetooth CDC card is installed, it can be enabled / | 
 | 	disabled through the "bluetooth_enable" thinkpad-acpi device | 
 | 	attribute, and its current status can also be queried. | 
 |  | 
 | 	enable: | 
 | 		0: disables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is disabled | 
 | 		1: enables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is enabled. | 
 |  | 
 | 	Note: this interface has been superseded by the	generic rfkill | 
 | 	class.  It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year | 
 | 	2010. | 
 |  | 
 | 	rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw": refer to | 
 | 	Documentation/rfkill.txt for details. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Video output control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 | -------------------------------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | This feature allows control over the devices used for video output - | 
 | LCD, CRT or DVI (if available). The following commands are available: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo lcd_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 | 	echo lcd_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 | 	echo crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 | 	echo crt_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 | 	echo dvi_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 | 	echo dvi_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 | 	echo auto_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 | 	echo auto_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 | 	echo expand_toggle > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 | 	echo video_switch > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 |  | 
 | NOTE: Access to this feature is restricted to processes owning the | 
 | CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for safety reasons, as it can interact badly | 
 | enough with some versions of X.org to crash it. | 
 |  | 
 | Each video output device can be enabled or disabled individually. | 
 | Reading /proc/acpi/ibm/video shows the status of each device. | 
 |  | 
 | Automatic video switching can be enabled or disabled.  When automatic | 
 | video switching is enabled, certain events (e.g. opening the lid, | 
 | docking or undocking) cause the video output device to change | 
 | automatically. While this can be useful, it also causes flickering | 
 | and, on the X40, video corruption. By disabling automatic switching, | 
 | the flickering or video corruption can be avoided. | 
 |  | 
 | The video_switch command cycles through the available video outputs | 
 | (it simulates the behavior of Fn-F7). | 
 |  | 
 | Video expansion can be toggled through this feature. This controls | 
 | whether the display is expanded to fill the entire LCD screen when a | 
 | mode with less than full resolution is used. Note that the current | 
 | video expansion status cannot be determined through this feature. | 
 |  | 
 | Note that on many models (particularly those using Radeon graphics | 
 | chips) the X driver configures the video card in a way which prevents | 
 | Fn-F7 from working. This also disables the video output switching | 
 | features of this driver, as it uses the same ACPI methods as | 
 | Fn-F7. Video switching on the console should still work. | 
 |  | 
 | UPDATE: refer to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000 | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | ThinkLight control | 
 | ------------------ | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/light | 
 | sysfs attributes: as per LED class, for the "tpacpi::thinklight" LED | 
 |  | 
 | procfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | The ThinkLight status can be read and set through the procfs interface.  A | 
 | few models which do not make the status available will show the ThinkLight | 
 | status as "unknown". The available commands are: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo on  > /proc/acpi/ibm/light | 
 | 	echo off > /proc/acpi/ibm/light | 
 |  | 
 | sysfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | The ThinkLight sysfs interface is documented by the LED class | 
 | documentation, in Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt.  The ThinkLight LED name | 
 | is "tpacpi::thinklight". | 
 |  | 
 | Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the ThinkLight | 
 | cannot be read or if it is unknown, thinkpad-acpi will report it as "off". | 
 | It is impossible to know if the status returned through sysfs is valid. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | CMOS/UCMS control | 
 | ----------------- | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/cmos | 
 | sysfs device attribute: cmos_command | 
 |  | 
 | This feature is mostly used internally by the ACPI firmware to keep the legacy | 
 | CMOS NVRAM bits in sync with the current machine state, and to record this | 
 | state so that the ThinkPad will retain such settings across reboots. | 
 |  | 
 | Some of these commands actually perform actions in some ThinkPad models, but | 
 | this is expected to disappear more and more in newer models.  As an example, in | 
 | a T43 and in a X40, commands 12 and 13 still control the ThinkLight state for | 
 | real, but commands 0 to 2 don't control the mixer anymore (they have been | 
 | phased out) and just update the NVRAM. | 
 |  | 
 | The range of valid cmos command numbers is 0 to 21, but not all have an | 
 | effect and the behavior varies from model to model.  Here is the behavior | 
 | on the X40 (tpb is the ThinkPad Buttons utility): | 
 |  | 
 | 	0 - Related to "Volume down" key press | 
 | 	1 - Related to "Volume up" key press | 
 | 	2 - Related to "Mute on" key press | 
 | 	3 - Related to "Access IBM" key press | 
 | 	4 - Related to "LCD brightness up" key press | 
 | 	5 - Related to "LCD brightness down" key press | 
 | 	11 - Related to "toggle screen expansion" key press/function | 
 | 	12 - Related to "ThinkLight on" | 
 | 	13 - Related to "ThinkLight off" | 
 | 	14 - Related to "ThinkLight" key press (toggle ThinkLight) | 
 |  | 
 | The cmos command interface is prone to firmware split-brain problems, as | 
 | in newer ThinkPads it is just a compatibility layer.  Do not use it, it is | 
 | exported just as a debug tool. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | LED control | 
 | ----------- | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/led | 
 | sysfs attributes: as per LED class, see below for names | 
 |  | 
 | Some of the LED indicators can be controlled through this feature.  On | 
 | some older ThinkPad models, it is possible to query the status of the | 
 | LED indicators as well.  Newer ThinkPads cannot query the real status | 
 | of the LED indicators. | 
 |  | 
 | Because misuse of the LEDs could induce an unaware user to perform | 
 | dangerous actions (like undocking or ejecting a bay device while the | 
 | buses are still active), or mask an important alarm (such as a nearly | 
 | empty battery, or a broken battery), access to most LEDs is | 
 | restricted. | 
 |  | 
 | Unrestricted access to all LEDs requires that thinkpad-acpi be | 
 | compiled with the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_UNSAFE_LEDS option enabled. | 
 | Distributions must never enable this option.  Individual users that | 
 | are aware of the consequences are welcome to enabling it. | 
 |  | 
 | Audio mute and microphone mute LEDs are supported, but currently not | 
 | visible to userspace. They are used by the snd-hda-intel audio driver. | 
 |  | 
 | procfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | The available commands are: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo '<LED number> on' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led | 
 | 	echo '<LED number> off' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led | 
 | 	echo '<LED number> blink' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led | 
 |  | 
 | The <LED number> range is 0 to 15. The set of LEDs that can be | 
 | controlled varies from model to model. Here is the common ThinkPad | 
 | mapping: | 
 |  | 
 | 	0 - power | 
 | 	1 - battery (orange) | 
 | 	2 - battery (green) | 
 | 	3 - UltraBase/dock | 
 | 	4 - UltraBay | 
 | 	5 - UltraBase battery slot | 
 | 	6 - (unknown) | 
 | 	7 - standby | 
 | 	8 - dock status 1 | 
 | 	9 - dock status 2 | 
 | 	10, 11 - (unknown) | 
 | 	12 - thinkvantage | 
 | 	13, 14, 15 - (unknown) | 
 |  | 
 | All of the above can be turned on and off and can be made to blink. | 
 |  | 
 | sysfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | The ThinkPad LED sysfs interface is described in detail by the LED class | 
 | documentation, in Documentation/leds/leds-class.txt. | 
 |  | 
 | The LEDs are named (in LED ID order, from 0 to 12): | 
 | "tpacpi::power", "tpacpi:orange:batt", "tpacpi:green:batt", | 
 | "tpacpi::dock_active", "tpacpi::bay_active", "tpacpi::dock_batt", | 
 | "tpacpi::unknown_led", "tpacpi::standby", "tpacpi::dock_status1", | 
 | "tpacpi::dock_status2", "tpacpi::unknown_led2", "tpacpi::unknown_led3", | 
 | "tpacpi::thinkvantage". | 
 |  | 
 | Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the LED | 
 | indicators cannot be read due to an error, thinkpad-acpi will report it as | 
 | a brightness of zero (same as LED off). | 
 |  | 
 | If the thinkpad firmware doesn't support reading the current status, | 
 | trying to read the current LED brightness will just return whatever | 
 | brightness was last written to that attribute. | 
 |  | 
 | These LEDs can blink using hardware acceleration.  To request that a | 
 | ThinkPad indicator LED should blink in hardware accelerated mode, use the | 
 | "timer" trigger, and leave the delay_on and delay_off parameters set to | 
 | zero (to request hardware acceleration autodetection). | 
 |  | 
 | LEDs that are known not to exist in a given ThinkPad model are not | 
 | made available through the sysfs interface.  If you have a dock and you | 
 | notice there are LEDs listed for your ThinkPad that do not exist (and | 
 | are not in the dock), or if you notice that there are missing LEDs, | 
 | a report to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is appreciated. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | ACPI sounds -- /proc/acpi/ibm/beep | 
 | ---------------------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | The BEEP method is used internally by the ACPI firmware to provide | 
 | audible alerts in various situations. This feature allows the same | 
 | sounds to be triggered manually. | 
 |  | 
 | The commands are non-negative integer numbers: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo <number> >/proc/acpi/ibm/beep | 
 |  | 
 | The valid <number> range is 0 to 17. Not all numbers trigger sounds | 
 | and the sounds vary from model to model. Here is the behavior on the | 
 | X40: | 
 |  | 
 | 	0 - stop a sound in progress (but use 17 to stop 16) | 
 | 	2 - two beeps, pause, third beep ("low battery") | 
 | 	3 - single beep | 
 | 	4 - high, followed by low-pitched beep ("unable") | 
 | 	5 - single beep | 
 | 	6 - very high, followed by high-pitched beep ("AC/DC") | 
 | 	7 - high-pitched beep | 
 | 	9 - three short beeps | 
 | 	10 - very long beep | 
 | 	12 - low-pitched beep | 
 | 	15 - three high-pitched beeps repeating constantly, stop with 0 | 
 | 	16 - one medium-pitched beep repeating constantly, stop with 17 | 
 | 	17 - stop 16 | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Temperature sensors | 
 | ------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal | 
 | sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") temp*_input | 
 |  | 
 | Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but only | 
 | expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods.  This | 
 | feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors on older | 
 | ThinkPads, and up to sixteen different sensors on newer ThinkPads. | 
 |  | 
 | For example, on the X40, a typical output may be: | 
 | temperatures:   42 42 45 41 36 -128 33 -128 | 
 |  | 
 | On the T43/p, a typical output may be: | 
 | temperatures:   48 48 36 52 38 -128 31 -128 48 52 48 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128 | 
 |  | 
 | The mapping of thermal sensors to physical locations varies depending on | 
 | system-board model (and thus, on ThinkPad model). | 
 |  | 
 | http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors is a public wiki page that | 
 | tries to track down these locations for various models. | 
 |  | 
 | Most (newer?) models seem to follow this pattern: | 
 |  | 
 | 1:  CPU | 
 | 2:  (depends on model) | 
 | 3:  (depends on model) | 
 | 4:  GPU | 
 | 5:  Main battery: main sensor | 
 | 6:  Bay battery: main sensor | 
 | 7:  Main battery: secondary sensor | 
 | 8:  Bay battery: secondary sensor | 
 | 9-15: (depends on model) | 
 |  | 
 | For the R51 (source: Thomas Gruber): | 
 | 2:  Mini-PCI | 
 | 3:  Internal HDD | 
 |  | 
 | For the T43, T43/p (source: Shmidoax/Thinkwiki.org) | 
 | http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p | 
 | 2:  System board, left side (near PCMCIA slot), reported as HDAPS temp | 
 | 3:  PCMCIA slot | 
 | 9:  MCH (northbridge) to DRAM Bus | 
 | 10: Clock-generator, mini-pci card and ICH (southbridge), under Mini-PCI | 
 |     card, under touchpad | 
 | 11: Power regulator, underside of system board, below F2 key | 
 |  | 
 | The A31 has a very atypical layout for the thermal sensors | 
 | (source: Milos Popovic, http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_A31) | 
 | 1:  CPU | 
 | 2:  Main Battery: main sensor | 
 | 3:  Power Converter | 
 | 4:  Bay Battery: main sensor | 
 | 5:  MCH (northbridge) | 
 | 6:  PCMCIA/ambient | 
 | 7:  Main Battery: secondary sensor | 
 | 8:  Bay Battery: secondary sensor | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Procfs notes: | 
 | 	Readings from sensors that are not available return -128. | 
 | 	No commands can be written to this file. | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs notes: | 
 | 	Sensors that are not available return the ENXIO error.  This | 
 | 	status may change at runtime, as there are hotplug thermal | 
 | 	sensors, like those inside the batteries and docks. | 
 |  | 
 | 	thinkpad-acpi thermal sensors are reported through the hwmon | 
 | 	subsystem, and follow all of the hwmon guidelines at | 
 | 	Documentation/hwmon. | 
 |  | 
 | EXPERIMENTAL: Embedded controller register dump | 
 | ----------------------------------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | This feature is not included in the thinkpad driver anymore. | 
 | Instead the EC can be accessed through /sys/kernel/debug/ec with | 
 | a userspace tool which can be found here: | 
 | ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/trenn/sources/ec | 
 |  | 
 | Use it to determine the register holding the fan | 
 | speed on some models. To do that, do the following: | 
 | 	- make sure the battery is fully charged | 
 | 	- make sure the fan is running | 
 | 	- use above mentioned tool to read out the EC | 
 |  | 
 | Often fan and temperature values vary between | 
 | readings. Since temperatures don't change vary fast, you can take | 
 | several quick dumps to eliminate them. | 
 |  | 
 | You can use a similar method to figure out the meaning of other | 
 | embedded controller registers - e.g. make sure nothing else changes | 
 | except the charging or discharging battery to determine which | 
 | registers contain the current battery capacity, etc. If you experiment | 
 | with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with | 
 | a description of the conditions when they were taken.) | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | LCD brightness control | 
 | ---------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness | 
 | sysfs backlight device "thinkpad_screen" | 
 |  | 
 | This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad | 
 | models which don't have a hardware brightness slider. | 
 |  | 
 | It has some limitations: the LCD backlight cannot be actually turned | 
 | on or off by this interface, it just controls the backlight brightness | 
 | level. | 
 |  | 
 | On IBM (and some of the earlier Lenovo) ThinkPads, the backlight control | 
 | has eight brightness levels, ranging from 0 to 7.  Some of the levels | 
 | may not be distinct.  Later Lenovo models that implement the ACPI | 
 | display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging | 
 | from 0 to 15. | 
 |  | 
 | For IBM ThinkPads, there are two interfaces to the firmware for direct | 
 | brightness control, EC and UCMS (or CMOS).  To select which one should be | 
 | used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects | 
 | EC mode, brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC | 
 | mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered across | 
 | shutdown/reboot). | 
 |  | 
 | The driver tries to select which interface to use from a table of | 
 | defaults for each ThinkPad model.  If it makes a wrong choice, please | 
 | report this as a bug, so that we can fix it. | 
 |  | 
 | Lenovo ThinkPads only support brightness_mode=2 (UCMS). | 
 |  | 
 | When display backlight brightness controls are available through the | 
 | standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct | 
 | ThinkPad-specific interface.  The driver will disable its native | 
 | backlight brightness control interface if it detects that the standard | 
 | ACPI interface is available in the ThinkPad. | 
 |  | 
 | If you want to use the thinkpad-acpi backlight brightness control | 
 | instead of the generic ACPI video backlight brightness control for some | 
 | reason, you should use the acpi_backlight=vendor kernel parameter. | 
 |  | 
 | The brightness_enable module parameter can be used to control whether | 
 | the LCD brightness control feature will be enabled when available. | 
 | brightness_enable=0 forces it to be disabled.  brightness_enable=1 | 
 | forces it to be enabled when available, even if the standard ACPI | 
 | interface is also available. | 
 |  | 
 | Procfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | 	The available commands are: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo up   >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness | 
 | 	echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness | 
 | 	echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | The interface is implemented through the backlight sysfs class, which is | 
 | poorly documented at this time. | 
 |  | 
 | Locate the thinkpad_screen device under /sys/class/backlight, and inside | 
 | it there will be the following attributes: | 
 |  | 
 | 	max_brightness: | 
 | 		Reads the maximum brightness the hardware can be set to. | 
 | 		The minimum is always zero. | 
 |  | 
 | 	actual_brightness: | 
 | 		Reads what brightness the screen is set to at this instant. | 
 |  | 
 | 	brightness: | 
 | 		Writes request the driver to change brightness to the | 
 | 		given value.  Reads will tell you what brightness the | 
 | 		driver is trying to set the display to when "power" is set | 
 | 		to zero and the display has not been dimmed by a kernel | 
 | 		power management event. | 
 |  | 
 | 	power: | 
 | 		power management mode, where 0 is "display on", and 1 to 3 | 
 | 		will dim the display backlight to brightness level 0 | 
 | 		because thinkpad-acpi cannot really turn the backlight | 
 | 		off.  Kernel power management events can temporarily | 
 | 		increase the current power management level, i.e. they can | 
 | 		dim the display. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | WARNING: | 
 |  | 
 |     Whatever you do, do NOT ever call thinkpad-acpi backlight-level change | 
 |     interface and the ACPI-based backlight level change interface | 
 |     (available on newer BIOSes, and driven by the Linux ACPI video driver) | 
 |     at the same time.  The two will interact in bad ways, do funny things, | 
 |     and maybe reduce the life of the backlight lamps by needlessly kicking | 
 |     its level up and down at every change. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Volume control (Console Audio control) | 
 | -------------------------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/volume | 
 | ALSA: "ThinkPad Console Audio Control", default ID: "ThinkPadEC" | 
 |  | 
 | NOTE: by default, the volume control interface operates in read-only | 
 | mode, as it is supposed to be used for on-screen-display purposes. | 
 | The read/write mode can be enabled through the use of the | 
 | "volume_control=1" module parameter. | 
 |  | 
 | NOTE: distros are urged to not enable volume_control by default, this | 
 | should be done by the local admin only.  The ThinkPad UI is for the | 
 | console audio control to be done through the volume keys only, and for | 
 | the desktop environment to just provide on-screen-display feedback. | 
 | Software volume control should be done only in the main AC97/HDA | 
 | mixer. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | About the ThinkPad Console Audio control: | 
 |  | 
 | ThinkPads have a built-in amplifier and muting circuit that drives the | 
 | console headphone and speakers.  This circuit is after the main AC97 | 
 | or HDA mixer in the audio path, and under exclusive control of the | 
 | firmware. | 
 |  | 
 | ThinkPads have three special hotkeys to interact with the console | 
 | audio control: volume up, volume down and mute. | 
 |  | 
 | It is worth noting that the normal way the mute function works (on | 
 | ThinkPads that do not have a "mute LED") is: | 
 |  | 
 | 1. Press mute to mute.  It will *always* mute, you can press it as | 
 |    many times as you want, and the sound will remain mute. | 
 |  | 
 | 2. Press either volume key to unmute the ThinkPad (it will _not_ | 
 |    change the volume, it will just unmute). | 
 |  | 
 | This is a very superior design when compared to the cheap software-only | 
 | mute-toggle solution found on normal consumer laptops:  you can be | 
 | absolutely sure the ThinkPad will not make noise if you press the mute | 
 | button, no matter the previous state. | 
 |  | 
 | The IBM ThinkPads, and the earlier Lenovo ThinkPads have variable-gain | 
 | amplifiers driving the speakers and headphone output, and the firmware | 
 | also handles volume control for the headphone and speakers on these | 
 | ThinkPads without any help from the operating system (this volume | 
 | control stage exists after the main AC97 or HDA mixer in the audio | 
 | path). | 
 |  | 
 | The newer Lenovo models only have firmware mute control, and depend on | 
 | the main HDA mixer to do volume control (which is done by the operating | 
 | system).  In this case, the volume keys are filtered out for unmute | 
 | key press (there are some firmware bugs in this area) and delivered as | 
 | normal key presses to the operating system (thinkpad-acpi is not | 
 | involved). | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | The ThinkPad-ACPI volume control: | 
 |  | 
 | The preferred way to interact with the Console Audio control is the | 
 | ALSA interface. | 
 |  | 
 | The legacy procfs interface allows one to read the current state, | 
 | and if volume control is enabled, accepts the following commands: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo up   >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume | 
 | 	echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume | 
 | 	echo mute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume | 
 | 	echo unmute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume | 
 | 	echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume | 
 |  | 
 | The <level> number range is 0 to 14 although not all of them may be | 
 | distinct. To unmute the volume after the mute command, use either the | 
 | up or down command (the level command will not unmute the volume), or | 
 | the unmute command. | 
 |  | 
 | You can use the volume_capabilities parameter to tell the driver | 
 | whether your thinkpad has volume control or mute-only control: | 
 | volume_capabilities=1 for mixers with mute and volume control, | 
 | volume_capabilities=2 for mixers with only mute control. | 
 |  | 
 | If the driver misdetects the capabilities for your ThinkPad model, | 
 | please report this to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, so that we | 
 | can update the driver. | 
 |  | 
 | There are two strategies for volume control.  To select which one | 
 | should be used, use the volume_mode module parameter: volume_mode=1 | 
 | selects EC mode, and volume_mode=3 selects EC mode with NVRAM backing | 
 | (so that volume/mute changes are remembered across shutdown/reboot). | 
 |  | 
 | The driver will operate in volume_mode=3 by default. If that does not | 
 | work well on your ThinkPad model, please report this to | 
 | ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net. | 
 |  | 
 | The driver supports the standard ALSA module parameters.  If the ALSA | 
 | mixer is disabled, the driver will disable all volume functionality. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable | 
 | --------------------------------------------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan | 
 | sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") fan1_input, pwm1, | 
 | 			  pwm1_enable, fan2_input | 
 | sysfs hwmon driver attributes: fan_watchdog | 
 |  | 
 | NOTE NOTE NOTE: fan control operations are disabled by default for | 
 | safety reasons.  To enable them, the module parameter "fan_control=1" | 
 | must be given to thinkpad-acpi. | 
 |  | 
 | This feature attempts to show the current fan speed, control mode and | 
 | other fan data that might be available.  The speed is read directly | 
 | from the hardware registers of the embedded controller.  This is known | 
 | to work on later R, T, X and Z series ThinkPads but may show a bogus | 
 | value on other models. | 
 |  | 
 | Some Lenovo ThinkPads support a secondary fan.  This fan cannot be | 
 | controlled separately, it shares the main fan control. | 
 |  | 
 | Fan levels: | 
 |  | 
 | Most ThinkPad fans work in "levels" at the firmware interface.  Level 0 | 
 | stops the fan.  The higher the level, the higher the fan speed, although | 
 | adjacent levels often map to the same fan speed.  7 is the highest | 
 | level, where the fan reaches the maximum recommended speed. | 
 |  | 
 | Level "auto" means the EC changes the fan level according to some | 
 | internal algorithm, usually based on readings from the thermal sensors. | 
 |  | 
 | There is also a "full-speed" level, also known as "disengaged" level. | 
 | In this level, the EC disables the speed-locked closed-loop fan control, | 
 | and drives the fan as fast as it can go, which might exceed hardware | 
 | limits, so use this level with caution. | 
 |  | 
 | The fan usually ramps up or down slowly from one speed to another, and | 
 | it is normal for the EC to take several seconds to react to fan | 
 | commands.  The full-speed level may take up to two minutes to ramp up to | 
 | maximum speed, and in some ThinkPads, the tachometer readings go stale | 
 | while the EC is transitioning to the full-speed level. | 
 |  | 
 | WARNING WARNING WARNING: do not leave the fan disabled unless you are | 
 | monitoring all of the temperature sensor readings and you are ready to | 
 | enable it if necessary to avoid overheating. | 
 |  | 
 | An enabled fan in level "auto" may stop spinning if the EC decides the | 
 | ThinkPad is cool enough and doesn't need the extra airflow.  This is | 
 | normal, and the EC will spin the fan up if the various thermal readings | 
 | rise too much. | 
 |  | 
 | On the X40, this seems to depend on the CPU and HDD temperatures. | 
 | Specifically, the fan is turned on when either the CPU temperature | 
 | climbs to 56 degrees or the HDD temperature climbs to 46 degrees.  The | 
 | fan is turned off when the CPU temperature drops to 49 degrees and the | 
 | HDD temperature drops to 41 degrees.  These thresholds cannot | 
 | currently be controlled. | 
 |  | 
 | The ThinkPad's ACPI DSDT code will reprogram the fan on its own when | 
 | certain conditions are met.  It will override any fan programming done | 
 | through thinkpad-acpi. | 
 |  | 
 | The thinkpad-acpi kernel driver can be programmed to revert the fan | 
 | level to a safe setting if userspace does not issue one of the procfs | 
 | fan commands: "enable", "disable", "level" or "watchdog", or if there | 
 | are no writes to pwm1_enable (or to pwm1 *if and only if* pwm1_enable is | 
 | set to 1, manual mode) within a configurable amount of time of up to | 
 | 120 seconds.  This functionality is called fan safety watchdog. | 
 |  | 
 | Note that the watchdog timer stops after it enables the fan.  It will be | 
 | rearmed again automatically (using the same interval) when one of the | 
 | above mentioned fan commands is received.  The fan watchdog is, | 
 | therefore, not suitable to protect against fan mode changes made through | 
 | means other than the "enable", "disable", and "level" procfs fan | 
 | commands, or the hwmon fan control sysfs interface. | 
 |  | 
 | Procfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | The fan may be enabled or disabled with the following commands: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo enable  >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan | 
 | 	echo disable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan | 
 |  | 
 | Placing a fan on level 0 is the same as disabling it.  Enabling a fan | 
 | will try to place it in a safe level if it is too slow or disabled. | 
 |  | 
 | The fan level can be controlled with the command: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan | 
 |  | 
 | Where <level> is an integer from 0 to 7, or one of the words "auto" or | 
 | "full-speed" (without the quotes).  Not all ThinkPads support the "auto" | 
 | and "full-speed" levels.  The driver accepts "disengaged" as an alias for | 
 | "full-speed", and reports it as "disengaged" for backwards | 
 | compatibility. | 
 |  | 
 | On the X31 and X40 (and ONLY on those models), the fan speed can be | 
 | controlled to a certain degree.  Once the fan is running, it can be | 
 | forced to run faster or slower with the following command: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo 'speed <speed>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan | 
 |  | 
 | The sustainable range of fan speeds on the X40 appears to be from about | 
 | 3700 to about 7350. Values outside this range either do not have any | 
 | effect or the fan speed eventually settles somewhere in that range.  The | 
 | fan cannot be stopped or started with this command.  This functionality | 
 | is incomplete, and not available through the sysfs interface. | 
 |  | 
 | To program the safety watchdog, use the "watchdog" command. | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo 'watchdog <interval in seconds>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan | 
 |  | 
 | If you want to disable the watchdog, use 0 as the interval. | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | The sysfs interface follows the hwmon subsystem guidelines for the most | 
 | part, and the exception is the fan safety watchdog. | 
 |  | 
 | Writes to any of the sysfs attributes may return the EINVAL error if | 
 | that operation is not supported in a given ThinkPad or if the parameter | 
 | is out-of-bounds, and EPERM if it is forbidden.  They may also return | 
 | EINTR (interrupted system call), and EIO (I/O error while trying to talk | 
 | to the firmware). | 
 |  | 
 | Features not yet implemented by the driver return ENOSYS. | 
 |  | 
 | hwmon device attribute pwm1_enable: | 
 | 	0: PWM offline (fan is set to full-speed mode) | 
 | 	1: Manual PWM control (use pwm1 to set fan level) | 
 | 	2: Hardware PWM control (EC "auto" mode) | 
 | 	3: reserved (Software PWM control, not implemented yet) | 
 |  | 
 | 	Modes 0 and 2 are not supported by all ThinkPads, and the | 
 | 	driver is not always able to detect this.  If it does know a | 
 | 	mode is unsupported, it will return -EINVAL. | 
 |  | 
 | hwmon device attribute pwm1: | 
 | 	Fan level, scaled from the firmware values of 0-7 to the hwmon | 
 | 	scale of 0-255.  0 means fan stopped, 255 means highest normal | 
 | 	speed (level 7). | 
 |  | 
 | 	This attribute only commands the fan if pmw1_enable is set to 1 | 
 | 	(manual PWM control). | 
 |  | 
 | hwmon device attribute fan1_input: | 
 | 	Fan tachometer reading, in RPM.  May go stale on certain | 
 | 	ThinkPads while the EC transitions the PWM to offline mode, | 
 | 	which can take up to two minutes.  May return rubbish on older | 
 | 	ThinkPads. | 
 |  | 
 | hwmon device attribute fan2_input: | 
 | 	Fan tachometer reading, in RPM, for the secondary fan. | 
 | 	Available only on some ThinkPads.  If the secondary fan is | 
 | 	not installed, will always read 0. | 
 |  | 
 | hwmon driver attribute fan_watchdog: | 
 | 	Fan safety watchdog timer interval, in seconds.  Minimum is | 
 | 	1 second, maximum is 120 seconds.  0 disables the watchdog. | 
 |  | 
 | To stop the fan: set pwm1 to zero, and pwm1_enable to 1. | 
 |  | 
 | To start the fan in a safe mode: set pwm1_enable to 2.  If that fails | 
 | with EINVAL, try to set pwm1_enable to 1 and pwm1 to at least 128 (255 | 
 | would be the safest choice, though). | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | WAN | 
 | --- | 
 |  | 
 | procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/wan | 
 | sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable (deprecated) | 
 | sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw" | 
 |  | 
 | This feature shows the presence and current state of the built-in | 
 | Wireless WAN device. | 
 |  | 
 | If the ThinkPad supports it, the WWAN state is stored in NVRAM, | 
 | so it is kept across reboots and power-off. | 
 |  | 
 | It was tested on a Lenovo ThinkPad X60. It should probably work on other | 
 | ThinkPad models which come with this module installed. | 
 |  | 
 | Procfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | If the W-WAN card is installed, the following commands can be used: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan | 
 | 	echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | 	If the W-WAN card is installed, it can be enabled / | 
 | 	disabled through the "wwan_enable" thinkpad-acpi device | 
 | 	attribute, and its current status can also be queried. | 
 |  | 
 | 	enable: | 
 | 		0: disables WWAN card / WWAN card is disabled | 
 | 		1: enables WWAN card / WWAN card is enabled. | 
 |  | 
 | 	Note: this interface has been superseded by the	generic rfkill | 
 | 	class.  It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year | 
 | 	2010. | 
 |  | 
 | 	rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw": refer to | 
 | 	Documentation/rfkill.txt for details. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | EXPERIMENTAL: UWB | 
 | ----------------- | 
 |  | 
 | This feature is considered EXPERIMENTAL because it has not been extensively | 
 | tested and validated in various ThinkPad models yet.  The feature may not | 
 | work as expected. USE WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply | 
 | the experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. | 
 |  | 
 | sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw" | 
 |  | 
 | This feature exports an rfkill controller for the UWB device, if one is | 
 | present and enabled in the BIOS. | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs notes: | 
 |  | 
 | 	rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw": refer to | 
 | 	Documentation/rfkill.txt for details. | 
 |  | 
 | Adaptive keyboard | 
 | ----------------- | 
 |  | 
 | sysfs device attribute: adaptive_kbd_mode | 
 |  | 
 | This sysfs attribute controls the keyboard "face" that will be shown on the | 
 | Lenovo X1 Carbon 2nd gen (2014)'s adaptive keyboard. The value can be read | 
 | and set. | 
 |  | 
 | 1 = Home mode | 
 | 2 = Web-browser mode | 
 | 3 = Web-conference mode | 
 | 4 = Function mode | 
 | 5 = Layflat mode | 
 |  | 
 | For more details about which buttons will appear depending on the mode, please | 
 | review the laptop's user guide: | 
 | http://www.lenovo.com/shop/americas/content/user_guides/x1carbon_2_ug_en.pdf | 
 |  | 
 | Multiple Commands, Module Parameters | 
 | ------------------------------------ | 
 |  | 
 | Multiple commands can be written to the proc files in one shot by | 
 | separating them with commas, for example: | 
 |  | 
 | 	echo enable,0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey | 
 | 	echo lcd_disable,crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video | 
 |  | 
 | Commands can also be specified when loading the thinkpad-acpi module, | 
 | for example: | 
 |  | 
 | 	modprobe thinkpad_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff video=auto_disable | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Enabling debugging output | 
 | ------------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | The module takes a debug parameter which can be used to selectively | 
 | enable various classes of debugging output, for example: | 
 |  | 
 | 	 modprobe thinkpad_acpi debug=0xffff | 
 |  | 
 | will enable all debugging output classes.  It takes a bitmask, so | 
 | to enable more than one output class, just add their values. | 
 |  | 
 | 	Debug bitmask		Description | 
 | 	0x8000			Disclose PID of userspace programs | 
 | 				accessing some functions of the driver | 
 | 	0x0001			Initialization and probing | 
 | 	0x0002			Removal | 
 | 	0x0004			RF Transmitter control (RFKILL) | 
 | 				(bluetooth, WWAN, UWB...) | 
 | 	0x0008			HKEY event interface, hotkeys | 
 | 	0x0010			Fan control | 
 | 	0x0020			Backlight brightness | 
 | 	0x0040			Audio mixer/volume control | 
 |  | 
 | There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging | 
 | information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems. | 
 |  | 
 | The level of debugging information output by the driver can be changed | 
 | at runtime through sysfs, using the driver attribute debug_level.  The | 
 | attribute takes the same bitmask as the debug module parameter above. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Force loading of module | 
 | ----------------------- | 
 |  | 
 | If thinkpad-acpi refuses to detect your ThinkPad, you can try to specify | 
 | the module parameter force_load=1.  Regardless of whether this works or | 
 | not, please contact ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net with a report. | 
 |  | 
 |  | 
 | Sysfs interface changelog: | 
 |  | 
 | 0x000100:	Initial sysfs support, as a single platform driver and | 
 | 		device. | 
 | 0x000200:	Hot key support for 32 hot keys, and radio slider switch | 
 | 		support. | 
 | 0x010000:	Hot keys are now handled by default over the input | 
 | 		layer, the radio switch generates input event EV_RADIO, | 
 | 		and the driver enables hot key handling by default in | 
 | 		the firmware. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x020000:	ABI fix: added a separate hwmon platform device and | 
 | 		driver, which must be located by name (thinkpad) | 
 | 		and the hwmon class for libsensors4 (lm-sensors 3) | 
 | 		compatibility.  Moved all hwmon attributes to this | 
 | 		new platform device. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x020100:	Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling | 
 | 		support.  If you must, use it to know you should not | 
 | 		start a userspace NVRAM poller (allows to detect when | 
 | 		NVRAM is compiled out by the user because it is | 
 | 		unneeded/undesired in the first place). | 
 | 0x020101:	Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling | 
 | 		and proper hotkey_mask semantics (version 8 of the | 
 | 		NVRAM polling patch).  Some development snapshots of | 
 | 		0.18 had an earlier version that did strange things | 
 | 		to hotkey_mask. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x020200:	Add poll()/select() support to the following attributes: | 
 | 		hotkey_radio_sw, wakeup_hotunplug_complete, wakeup_reason | 
 |  | 
 | 0x020300:	hotkey enable/disable support removed, attributes | 
 | 		hotkey_bios_enabled and hotkey_enable deprecated and | 
 | 		marked for removal. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x020400:	Marker for 16 LEDs support.  Also, LEDs that are known | 
 | 		to not exist in a given model are not registered with | 
 | 		the LED sysfs class anymore. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x020500:	Updated hotkey driver, hotkey_mask is always available | 
 | 		and it is always able to disable hot keys.  Very old | 
 | 		thinkpads are properly supported.  hotkey_bios_mask | 
 | 		is deprecated and marked for removal. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x020600:	Marker for backlight change event support. | 
 |  | 
 | 0x020700:	Support for mute-only mixers. | 
 | 		Volume control in read-only mode by default. | 
 | 		Marker for ALSA mixer support. |