ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver Version 0.18 October 08th, 2007 Borislav Deianov Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 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. 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 - limited docking and undocking - UltraBay eject - CMOS 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 - Experimental: WAN 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 DSDT, from /proc/acpi/dsdt - 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, simply enable the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI option, and optionally enable the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_BAY option if you want the thinkpad-specific bay functionality. 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 distant 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". 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 comunicating 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 hot key feature automatically when loaded. The feature can later be disabled and enabled back at runtime. The driver will also restore the hot key feature to its previous state and mask when it is unloaded. When the hotkey feature is enabled and the hot key mask is set (see below), 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. 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, and in those models, hot keys cannot be controlled individually. The behaviour of the mask is, therefore, higly dependent on the ThinkPad model. 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. Note also that not all Fn key combinations are supported through ACPI. For example, on the X40, the brightness, volume and "Access IBM" buttons do not generate ACPI events even with this driver. They *can* be used through the "ThinkPad Buttons" utility, see http://www.nongnu.org/tpb/ procfs notes: The following commands can be written to the /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey file: echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- enable the hot keys feature echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- disable the hot keys feature 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 original mask 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: Returns the status of the hot keys feature when thinkpad-acpi was loaded. Upon module unload, the hot key feature status will be restored to this value. 0: hot keys were disabled 1: hot keys were enabled (unusual) hotkey_bios_mask: Returns the hot keys mask when thinkpad-acpi was loaded. Upon module unload, the hot keys mask will be restored to this value. hotkey_enable: Enables/disables the hot keys feature in the ACPI firmware, and reports current status of the hot keys feature. Has no effect on the NVRAM hot key polling functionality. 0: disables the hot keys feature / feature disabled 1: enables the hot keys feature / feature enabled hotkey_mask: bit mask to enable driver-handling (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. Note: when NVRAM polling is active, the firmware mask will be different from the value returned by hotkey_mask. The driver will retain enabled bits for hotkeys that are under NVRAM polling even if the firmware refuses them, and will not set these bits on the firmware hot key mask. 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. 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 both hotkey_source_mask and also on hotkey_mask are polled for in NVRAM. 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, so you have to use volume up or volume down to unmute, as per the ThinkPad volume mixer user interface. When in ACPI event mode, volume up/down/mute are reported as separate events, but this behaviour may be corrected in future releases of this driver, in which case the ThinkPad volume mixer user interface semanthics will be enforced. 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 will 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" postition, and 1 if the switch is in the "radios enabled" position. hotkey_report_mode: Returns the state of the procfs ACPI event report mode filter for hot keys. If it is set to 1 (the default), all hot key presses are reported both through the input layer and also as ACPI events through procfs (but not through netlink). If it is set to 2, hot key presses are reported only through the input layer. This attribute is read-only in kernels 2.6.23 or later, and read-write on earlier kernels. May return -EPERM (write access locked out by module parameter) or -EACCES (read-only). 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. wakeup_hotunplug_complete: Set to 1 if the system was waken up because of an undock or bay ejection request, and that request was sucessfully 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. 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 Lenovo: battery 0x1004 0x03 FN+F4 Sleep button (ACPI sleep button semanthics, i.e. sleep-to-RAM). It is always generate some kind of event, either the hot key event or a 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 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+F4 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. 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. Non hot-key ACPI HKEY event map: 0x5001 Lid closed 0x5002 Lid opened 0x7000 Radio Switch may have changed state The above events are not propagated by the driver, except for legacy compatibility purposes when hotkey_report_mode is set to 1. 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 The above events are never propagated by the driver. 0x3003 Bay ejection (see 0x2x05) complete, can sleep again 0x4003 Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again 0x5009 Tablet swivel: switched to tablet mode 0x500A Tablet swivel: switched to normal mode 0x500B Tablet pen insterted into its storage bay 0x500C Tablet pen removed from its storage bay 0x5010 Brightness level changed (newer Lenovo BIOSes) The above events are propagated by the driver. Compatibility notes: ibm-acpi and thinkpad-acpi 0.15 (mainline kernels before 2.6.23) never supported the input layer, and sent events over the procfs ACPI event interface. To avoid sending duplicate events over the input layer and the ACPI event interface, thinkpad-acpi 0.16 implements a module parameter (hotkey_report_mode), and also a sysfs device attribute with the same name. Make no mistake here: userspace is expected to switch to using the input layer interface of thinkpad-acpi, together with the ACPI netlink event interface in kernels 2.6.23 and later, or with the ACPI procfs event interface in kernels 2.6.22 and earlier. If no hotkey_report_mode module parameter is specified (or it is set to zero), the driver defaults to mode 1 (see below), and on kernels 2.6.22 and earlier, also allows one to change the hotkey_report_mode through sysfs. In kernels 2.6.23 and later, where the netlink ACPI event interface is available, hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed through sysfs (it is read-only). If the hotkey_report_mode module parameter is set to 1 or 2, it cannot be changed later through sysfs (any writes will return -EPERM to signal that hotkey_report_mode was locked. On 2.6.23 and later, where hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed at all, writes will return -EACES). hotkey_report_mode set to 1 makes the driver export through the procfs ACPI event interface all hot key presses (which are *also* sent to the input layer). This is a legacy compatibility behaviour, and it is also the default mode of operation for the driver. hotkey_report_mode set to 2 makes the driver filter out the hot key presses from the procfs ACPI event interface, so these events will only be sent through the input layer. Userspace that has been updated to use the thinkpad-acpi input layer interface should set hotkey_report_mode to 2. Hot key press events are never sent to the ACPI netlink event interface. Really up-to-date userspace under kernel 2.6.23 and later is to use the netlink interface and the input layer interface, and don't bother at all with hotkey_report_mode. Bluetooth --------- procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth sysfs device attribute: bluetooth_enable This feature shows the presence and current state of a ThinkPad Bluetooth device in the internal ThinkPad CDC slot. 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 will be probably be superseeded by the generic rfkill class, so it is NOT to be considered stable yet. 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 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: There's now a patch for the X.org Radeon driver which addresses this issue. Some people are reporting success with the patch while others are still having problems. For more information: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000 ThinkLight control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/light ------------------------------------------ The current status of the ThinkLight can be found in this file. A few models which do not make the status available will show it as "unknown". The available commands are: echo on > /proc/acpi/ibm/light echo off > /proc/acpi/ibm/light Docking / undocking -- /proc/acpi/ibm/dock ------------------------------------------ Docking and undocking (e.g. with the X4 UltraBase) requires some actions to be taken by the operating system to safely make or break the electrical connections with the dock. The docking feature of this driver generates the following ACPI events: ibm/dock GDCK 00000003 00000001 -- eject request ibm/dock GDCK 00000003 00000002 -- undocked ibm/dock GDCK 00000000 00000003 -- docked NOTE: These events will only be generated if the laptop was docked when originally booted. This is due to the current lack of support for hot plugging of devices in the Linux ACPI framework. If the laptop was booted while not in the dock, the following message is shown in the logs: Mar 17 01:42:34 aero kernel: thinkpad_acpi: dock device not present In this case, no dock-related events are generated but the dock and undock commands described below still work. They can be executed manually or triggered by Fn key combinations (see the example acpid configuration files included in the driver tarball package available on the web site). When the eject request button on the dock is pressed, the first event above is generated. The handler for this event should issue the following command: echo undock > /proc/acpi/ibm/dock After the LED on the dock goes off, it is safe to eject the laptop. Note: if you pressed this key by mistake, go ahead and eject the laptop, then dock it back in. Otherwise, the dock may not function as expected. When the laptop is docked, the third event above is generated. The handler for this event should issue the following command to fully enable the dock: echo dock > /proc/acpi/ibm/dock The contents of the /proc/acpi/ibm/dock file shows the current status of the dock, as provided by the ACPI framework. The docking support in this driver does not take care of enabling or disabling any other devices you may have attached to the dock. For example, a CD drive plugged into the UltraBase needs to be disabled or enabled separately. See the provided example acpid configuration files for how this can be accomplished. There is no support yet for PCI devices that may be attached to a docking station, e.g. in the ThinkPad Dock II. The driver currently does not recognize, enable or disable such devices. This means that the only docking stations currently supported are the X-series UltraBase docks and "dumb" port replicators like the Mini Dock (the latter don't need any ACPI support, actually). UltraBay eject -- /proc/acpi/ibm/bay ------------------------------------ Inserting or ejecting an UltraBay device requires some actions to be taken by the operating system to safely make or break the electrical connections with the device. This feature generates the following ACPI events: ibm/bay MSTR 00000003 00000000 -- eject request ibm/bay MSTR 00000001 00000000 -- eject lever inserted NOTE: These events will only be generated if the UltraBay was present when the laptop was originally booted (on the X series, the UltraBay is in the dock, so it may not be present if the laptop was undocked). This is due to the current lack of support for hot plugging of devices in the Linux ACPI framework. If the laptop was booted without the UltraBay, the following message is shown in the logs: Mar 17 01:42:34 aero kernel: thinkpad_acpi: bay device not present In this case, no bay-related events are generated but the eject command described below still works. It can be executed manually or triggered by a hot key combination. Sliding the eject lever generates the first event shown above. The handler for this event should take whatever actions are necessary to shut down the device in the UltraBay (e.g. call idectl), then issue the following command: echo eject > /proc/acpi/ibm/bay After the LED on the UltraBay goes off, it is safe to pull out the device. When the eject lever is inserted, the second event above is generated. The handler for this event should take whatever actions are necessary to enable the UltraBay device (e.g. call idectl). The contents of the /proc/acpi/ibm/bay file shows the current status of the UltraBay, as provided by the ACPI framework. EXPERIMENTAL warm eject support on the 600e/x, A22p and A3x (To use this feature, you need to supply the experimental=1 parameter when loading the module): These models do not have a button near the UltraBay device to request a hot eject but rather require the laptop to be put to sleep (suspend-to-ram) before the bay device is ejected or inserted). The sequence of steps to eject the device is as follows: echo eject > /proc/acpi/ibm/bay put the ThinkPad to sleep remove the drive resume from sleep cat /proc/acpi/ibm/bay should show that the drive was removed On the A3x, both the UltraBay 2000 and UltraBay Plus devices are supported. Use "eject2" instead of "eject" for the second bay. Note: the UltraBay eject support on the 600e/x, A22p and A3x is EXPERIMENTAL and may not work as expected. USE WITH CAUTION! CMOS 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 pess 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 -- /proc/acpi/ibm/led --------------------------------- Some of the LED indicators can be controlled through this feature. The available commands are: echo ' on' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led echo ' off' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led echo ' blink' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led The range is 0 to 7. The set of LEDs that can be controlled varies from model to model. Here is the mapping on the X40: 0 - power 1 - battery (orange) 2 - battery (green) 3 - UltraBase 4 - UltraBay 7 - standby All of the above can be turned on and off and can be made to blink. 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 >/proc/acpi/ibm/beep The valid 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 -- /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. This feature dumps the values of 256 embedded controller registers. Values which have changed since the last time the registers were dumped are marked with a star: [root@x40 ibm-acpi]# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump EC +00 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +0a +0b +0c +0d +0e +0f EC 0x00: a7 47 87 01 fe 96 00 08 01 00 cb 00 00 00 40 00 EC 0x10: 00 00 ff ff f4 3c 87 09 01 ff 42 01 ff ff 0d 00 EC 0x20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 43 00 00 80 EC 0x30: 01 07 1a 00 30 04 00 00 *85 00 00 10 00 50 00 00 EC 0x40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0x50: 00 c0 02 0d 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 *bc *02 *bc EC 0x60: *02 *bc *02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0x70: 00 00 00 00 00 12 30 40 *24 *26 *2c *27 *20 80 *1f 80 EC 0x80: 00 00 00 06 *37 *0e 03 00 00 00 0e 07 00 00 00 00 EC 0x90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0xa0: *ff 09 ff 09 ff ff *64 00 *00 *00 *a2 41 *ff *ff *e0 00 EC 0xb0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0xc0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0xd0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0xe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 20 49 04 24 06 55 03 EC 0xf0: 31 55 48 54 35 38 57 57 08 2f 45 73 07 65 6c 1a This feature can be used 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 - run 'cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump' several times, once per second or so The first step makes sure various charging-related values don't vary. The second ensures that the fan-related values do vary, since the fan speed fluctuates a bit. The third will (hopefully) mark the fan register with a star: [root@x40 ibm-acpi]# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump EC +00 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +0a +0b +0c +0d +0e +0f EC 0x00: a7 47 87 01 fe 96 00 08 01 00 cb 00 00 00 40 00 EC 0x10: 00 00 ff ff f4 3c 87 09 01 ff 42 01 ff ff 0d 00 EC 0x20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 43 00 00 80 EC 0x30: 01 07 1a 00 30 04 00 00 85 00 00 10 00 50 00 00 EC 0x40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0x50: 00 c0 02 0d 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 bc 02 bc EC 0x60: 02 bc 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0x70: 00 00 00 00 00 12 30 40 24 27 2c 27 21 80 1f 80 EC 0x80: 00 00 00 06 *be 0d 03 00 00 00 0e 07 00 00 00 00 EC 0x90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0xa0: ff 09 ff 09 ff ff 64 00 00 00 a2 41 ff ff e0 00 EC 0xb0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0xc0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0xd0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 EC 0xe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 20 49 04 24 06 55 03 EC 0xf0: 31 55 48 54 35 38 57 57 08 2f 45 73 07 65 6c 1a Another set of values that varies often is the temperature 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, and in many ThinkPad models, the "dim while on battery" functionality will be enabled by the BIOS when this interface is used, and cannot be controlled. 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. There are two interfaces to the firmware for direct brightness control, EC and CMOS. To select which one should be used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects EC mode, brightness_mode=2 selects CMOS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects both EC and CMOS. The driver tries to autodetect which interface to use. 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. 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 ' >/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. Volume control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/volume --------------------------------------- This feature allows volume control on ThinkPad models which don't have a hardware volume knob. The available commands are: echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume echo mute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume echo 'level ' >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume The number range is 0 to 15 although not all of them may be distinct. The unmute the volume after the mute command, use either the up or down command (the level command will not unmute the volume). The current volume level and mute state is shown in the file. Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable --------------------------------------------------------- procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") fan1_input, pwm1, pwm1_enable 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. 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 ' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan Where 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 ' > /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 ' > /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 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). EXPERIMENTAL: WAN ----------------- procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/wan sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the experimental=1 parameter when loading the module. This feature shows the presence and current state of a W-WAN (Sierra Wireless EV-DO) device. 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 will be probably be superseeded by the generic rfkill class, so it is NOT to be considered stable yet. 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 ibm_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 0x0001 Initialization and probing 0x0002 Removal 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 an 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 semanthics (version 8 of the NVRAM polling patch). Some development snapshots of 0.18 had an earlier version that did strange things to hotkey_mask.