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Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -03001 ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07002
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh5d2eb142009-12-15 21:51:13 -02003 Version 0.24
4 December 11th, 2009
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07005
6 Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net>
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhc78d5c92007-07-18 23:45:47 -03007 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
8 http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07009
10
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -030011This is a Linux driver for the IBM and Lenovo ThinkPad laptops. It
12supports various features of these laptops which are accessible
13through the ACPI and ACPI EC framework, but not otherwise fully
14supported by the generic Linux ACPI drivers.
15
16This driver used to be named ibm-acpi until kernel 2.6.21 and release
170.13-20070314. It used to be in the drivers/acpi tree, but it was
18moved to the drivers/misc tree and renamed to thinkpad-acpi for kernel
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh9abf0ee2009-01-11 03:00:58 -0200192.6.22, and release 0.14. It was moved to drivers/platform/x86 for
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaa2fbce2009-01-11 03:01:10 -020020kernel 2.6.29 and release 0.22.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070021
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh95e57ab2008-04-26 01:02:22 -030022The driver is named "thinkpad-acpi". In some places, like module
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +000023names and log messages, "thinkpad_acpi" is used because of userspace
24issues.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh95e57ab2008-04-26 01:02:22 -030025
26"tpacpi" is used as a shorthand where "thinkpad-acpi" would be too
27long due to length limitations on some Linux kernel versions.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070028
29Status
30------
31
32The features currently supported are the following (see below for
33detailed description):
34
35 - Fn key combinations
36 - Bluetooth enable and disable
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh837ca6d2007-03-23 17:33:54 -030037 - video output switching, expansion control
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070038 - ThinkLight on and off
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +000039 - CMOS/UCMS control
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -040040 - LED control
41 - ACPI sounds
42 - temperature sensors
43 - Experimental: embedded controller register dump
Stefan Schmidt24f7ff02006-09-22 12:19:15 +020044 - LCD brightness control
45 - Volume control
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhecf2a802007-04-27 22:00:09 -030046 - Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9662e082008-08-27 21:04:49 -070047 - WAN enable and disable
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +000048 - UWB enable and disable
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070049
50A compatibility table by model and feature is maintained on the web
51site, http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/. I appreciate any success or failure
52reports, especially if they add to or correct the compatibility table.
53Please include the following information in your report:
54
55 - ThinkPad model name
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +000056 - a copy of your ACPI tables, using the "acpidump" utility
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -030057 - a copy of the output of dmidecode, with serial numbers
58 and UUIDs masked off
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070059 - which driver features work and which don't
60 - the observed behavior of non-working features
61
62Any other comments or patches are also more than welcome.
63
64
65Installation
66------------
67
68If you are compiling this driver as included in the Linux kernel
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +000069sources, look for the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI Kconfig option.
70It is located on the menu path: "Device Drivers" -> "X86 Platform
71Specific Device Drivers" -> "ThinkPad ACPI Laptop Extras".
72
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -070073
74Features
75--------
76
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh54ae1502007-04-24 11:48:12 -030077The driver exports two different interfaces to userspace, which can be
78used to access the features it provides. One is a legacy procfs-based
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +000079interface, which will be removed at some time in the future. The other
80is a new sysfs-based interface which is not complete yet.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh54ae1502007-04-24 11:48:12 -030081
82The procfs interface creates the /proc/acpi/ibm directory. There is a
83file under that directory for each feature it supports. The procfs
84interface is mostly frozen, and will change very little if at all: it
85will not be extended to add any new functionality in the driver, instead
86all new functionality will be implemented on the sysfs interface.
87
88The sysfs interface tries to blend in the generic Linux sysfs subsystems
89and classes as much as possible. Since some of these subsystems are not
90yet ready or stabilized, it is expected that this interface will change,
91and any and all userspace programs must deal with it.
92
93
94Notes about the sysfs interface:
95
96Unlike what was done with the procfs interface, correctness when talking
97to the sysfs interfaces will be enforced, as will correctness in the
98thinkpad-acpi's implementation of sysfs interfaces.
99
100Also, any bugs in the thinkpad-acpi sysfs driver code or in the
101thinkpad-acpi's implementation of the sysfs interfaces will be fixed for
102maximum correctness, even if that means changing an interface in
103non-compatible ways. As these interfaces mature both in the kernel and
104in thinkpad-acpi, such changes should become quite rare.
105
106Applications interfacing to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interfaces must
107follow all sysfs guidelines and correctly process all errors (the sysfs
108interface makes extensive use of errors). File descriptors and open /
109close operations to the sysfs inodes must also be properly implemented.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700110
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -0300111The version of thinkpad-acpi's sysfs interface is exported by the driver
112as a driver attribute (see below).
113
114Sysfs driver attributes are on the driver's sysfs attribute space,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000115for 2.6.23+ this is /sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_acpi/ and
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -0300116/sys/bus/platform/drivers/thinkpad_hwmon/
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -0300117
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -0300118Sysfs device attributes are on the thinkpad_acpi device sysfs attribute
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000119space, for 2.6.23+ this is /sys/devices/platform/thinkpad_acpi/.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -0300120
121Sysfs device attributes for the sensors and fan are on the
122thinkpad_hwmon device's sysfs attribute space, but you should locate it
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000123looking for a hwmon device with the name attribute of "thinkpad", or
124better yet, through libsensors.
125
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -0300126
127Driver version
128--------------
129
130procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/driver
131sysfs driver attribute: version
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700132
133The driver name and version. No commands can be written to this file.
134
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000135
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -0300136Sysfs interface version
137-----------------------
138
139sysfs driver attribute: interface_version
140
141Version of the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface, as an unsigned long
142(output in hex format: 0xAAAABBCC), where:
143 AAAA - major revision
144 BB - minor revision
145 CC - bugfix revision
146
147The sysfs interface version changelog for the driver can be found at the
148end of this document. Changes to the sysfs interface done by the kernel
149subsystems are not documented here, nor are they tracked by this
150attribute.
151
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh94b08712007-07-18 23:45:32 -0300152Changes to the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface are only considered
153non-experimental when they are submitted to Linux mainline, at which
154point the changes in this interface are documented and interface_version
155may be updated. If you are using any thinkpad-acpi features not yet
156sent to mainline for merging, you do so on your own risk: these features
157may disappear, or be implemented in a different and incompatible way by
158the time they are merged in Linux mainline.
159
160Changes that are backwards-compatible by nature (e.g. the addition of
161attributes that do not change the way the other attributes work) do not
162always warrant an update of interface_version. Therefore, one must
163expect that an attribute might not be there, and deal with it properly
164(an attribute not being there *is* a valid way to make it clear that a
165feature is not available in sysfs).
166
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000167
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300168Hot keys
169--------
170
171procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300172sysfs device attribute: hotkey_*
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700173
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200174In a ThinkPad, the ACPI HKEY handler is responsible for communicating
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300175some important events and also keyboard hot key presses to the operating
176system. Enabling the hotkey functionality of thinkpad-acpi signals the
177firmware that such a driver is present, and modifies how the ThinkPad
178firmware will behave in many situations.
179
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2586d562009-04-04 04:25:48 +0000180The driver enables the HKEY ("hot key") event reporting automatically
181when loaded, and disables it when it is removed.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300182
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2586d562009-04-04 04:25:48 +0000183The driver will report HKEY events in the following format:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700184
185 ibm/hotkey HKEY 00000080 0000xxxx
186
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2586d562009-04-04 04:25:48 +0000187Some of these events refer to hot key presses, but not all of them.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300188
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300189The driver will generate events over the input layer for hot keys and
190radio switches, and over the ACPI netlink layer for other events. The
191input layer support accepts the standard IOCTLs to remap the keycodes
192assigned to each hot key.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300193
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300194The hot key bit mask allows some control over which hot keys generate
195events. If a key is "masked" (bit set to 0 in the mask), the firmware
196will handle it. If it is "unmasked", it signals the firmware that
197thinkpad-acpi would prefer to handle it, if the firmware would be so
198kind to allow it (and it often doesn't!).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700199
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300200Not all bits in the mask can be modified. Not all bits that can be
201modified do anything. Not all hot keys can be individually controlled
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0d922e32009-09-20 14:09:25 -0300202by the mask. Some models do not support the mask at all. The behaviour
203of the mask is, therefore, highly dependent on the ThinkPad model.
204
205The driver will filter out any unmasked hotkeys, so even if the firmware
206doesn't allow disabling an specific hotkey, the driver will not report
207events for unmasked hotkeys.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhae92bd12007-07-18 23:45:29 -0300208
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300209Note that unmasking some keys prevents their default behavior. For
210example, if Fn+F5 is unmasked, that key will no longer enable/disable
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0d922e32009-09-20 14:09:25 -0300211Bluetooth by itself in firmware.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700212
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0d922e32009-09-20 14:09:25 -0300213Note also that not all Fn key combinations are supported through ACPI
214depending on the ThinkPad model and firmware version. On those
215ThinkPads, it is still possible to support some extra hotkeys by
216polling the "CMOS NVRAM" at least 10 times per second. The driver
217attempts to enables this functionality automatically when required.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700218
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300219procfs notes:
220
221The following commands can be written to the /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey file:
222
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhae92bd12007-07-18 23:45:29 -0300223 echo 0xffffffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- enable all hot keys
224 echo 0 > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- disable all possible hot keys
225 ... any other 8-hex-digit mask ...
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh20c9aa42009-09-12 15:22:16 -0300226 echo reset > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- restore the recommended mask
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300227
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2586d562009-04-04 04:25:48 +0000228The following commands have been deprecated and will cause the kernel
229to log a warning:
230
231 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- does nothing
232 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey -- returns an error
233
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -0200234The procfs interface does not support NVRAM polling control. So as to
235maintain maximum bug-to-bug compatibility, it does not report any masks,
236nor does it allow one to manipulate the hot key mask when the firmware
237does not support masks at all, even if NVRAM polling is in use.
238
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300239sysfs notes:
240
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300241 hotkey_bios_enabled:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2586d562009-04-04 04:25:48 +0000242 DEPRECATED, WILL BE REMOVED SOON.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300243
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2586d562009-04-04 04:25:48 +0000244 Returns 0.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300245
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300246 hotkey_bios_mask:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh06777be2009-09-12 15:22:15 -0300247 DEPRECATED, DON'T USE, WILL BE REMOVED IN THE FUTURE.
248
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300249 Returns the hot keys mask when thinkpad-acpi was loaded.
250 Upon module unload, the hot keys mask will be restored
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh06777be2009-09-12 15:22:15 -0300251 to this value. This is always 0x80c, because those are
252 the hotkeys that were supported by ancient firmware
253 without mask support.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300254
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300255 hotkey_enable:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2586d562009-04-04 04:25:48 +0000256 DEPRECATED, WILL BE REMOVED SOON.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300257
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2586d562009-04-04 04:25:48 +0000258 0: returns -EPERM
259 1: does nothing
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300260
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300261 hotkey_mask:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0d922e32009-09-20 14:09:25 -0300262 bit mask to enable reporting (and depending on
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -0200263 the firmware, ACPI event generation) for each hot key
264 (see above). Returns the current status of the hot keys
265 mask, and allows one to modify it.
266
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh9b010de2007-07-18 23:45:30 -0300267 hotkey_all_mask:
268 bit mask that should enable event reporting for all
269 supported hot keys, when echoed to hotkey_mask above.
270 Unless you know which events need to be handled
271 passively (because the firmware *will* handle them
272 anyway), do *not* use hotkey_all_mask. Use
273 hotkey_recommended_mask, instead. You have been warned.
274
275 hotkey_recommended_mask:
276 bit mask that should enable event reporting for all
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh1a343762007-07-18 23:45:36 -0300277 supported hot keys, except those which are always
278 handled by the firmware anyway. Echo it to
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0d922e32009-09-20 14:09:25 -0300279 hotkey_mask above, to use. This is the default mask
280 used by the driver.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh9b010de2007-07-18 23:45:30 -0300281
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -0200282 hotkey_source_mask:
283 bit mask that selects which hot keys will the driver
284 poll the NVRAM for. This is auto-detected by the driver
285 based on the capabilities reported by the ACPI firmware,
286 but it can be overridden at runtime.
287
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0d922e32009-09-20 14:09:25 -0300288 Hot keys whose bits are set in hotkey_source_mask are
289 polled for in NVRAM, and reported as hotkey events if
290 enabled in hotkey_mask. Only a few hot keys are
291 available through CMOS NVRAM polling.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -0200292
293 Warning: when in NVRAM mode, the volume up/down/mute
294 keys are synthesized according to changes in the mixer,
295 so you have to use volume up or volume down to unmute,
296 as per the ThinkPad volume mixer user interface. When
297 in ACPI event mode, volume up/down/mute are reported as
298 separate events, but this behaviour may be corrected in
299 future releases of this driver, in which case the
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200300 ThinkPad volume mixer user interface semantics will be
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -0200301 enforced.
302
303 hotkey_poll_freq:
304 frequency in Hz for hot key polling. It must be between
305 0 and 25 Hz. Polling is only carried out when strictly
306 needed.
307
308 Setting hotkey_poll_freq to zero disables polling, and
309 will cause hot key presses that require NVRAM polling
310 to never be reported.
311
312 Setting hotkey_poll_freq too low will cause repeated
313 pressings of the same hot key to be misreported as a
314 single key press, or to not even be detected at all.
315 The recommended polling frequency is 10Hz.
316
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh74941a62007-07-18 23:45:31 -0300317 hotkey_radio_sw:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd147da72008-02-16 02:17:57 -0200318 If the ThinkPad has a hardware radio switch, this
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh74941a62007-07-18 23:45:31 -0300319 attribute will read 0 if the switch is in the "radios
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200320 disabled" position, and 1 if the switch is in the
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh74941a62007-07-18 23:45:31 -0300321 "radios enabled" position.
322
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh50ebec02008-01-08 13:02:55 -0200323 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
324
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6c231bd2008-02-16 02:17:58 -0200325 hotkey_tablet_mode:
326 If the ThinkPad has tablet capabilities, this attribute
327 will read 0 if the ThinkPad is in normal mode, and
328 1 if the ThinkPad is in tablet mode.
329
330 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
331
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300332 hotkey_report_mode:
333 Returns the state of the procfs ACPI event report mode
334 filter for hot keys. If it is set to 1 (the default),
335 all hot key presses are reported both through the input
336 layer and also as ACPI events through procfs (but not
337 through netlink). If it is set to 2, hot key presses
338 are reported only through the input layer.
339
340 This attribute is read-only in kernels 2.6.23 or later,
341 and read-write on earlier kernels.
342
343 May return -EPERM (write access locked out by module
344 parameter) or -EACCES (read-only).
345
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha713b4d2008-01-08 13:02:52 -0200346 wakeup_reason:
347 Set to 1 if the system is waking up because the user
348 requested a bay ejection. Set to 2 if the system is
349 waking up because the user requested the system to
350 undock. Set to zero for normal wake-ups or wake-ups
351 due to unknown reasons.
352
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh50ebec02008-01-08 13:02:55 -0200353 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
354
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha713b4d2008-01-08 13:02:52 -0200355 wakeup_hotunplug_complete:
356 Set to 1 if the system was waken up because of an
357 undock or bay ejection request, and that request
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200358 was successfully completed. At this point, it might
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha713b4d2008-01-08 13:02:52 -0200359 be useful to send the system back to sleep, at the
360 user's choice. Refer to HKEY events 0x4003 and
361 0x3003, below.
362
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh50ebec02008-01-08 13:02:55 -0200363 This attribute has poll()/select() support.
364
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300365input layer notes:
366
367A Hot key is mapped to a single input layer EV_KEY event, possibly
368followed by an EV_MSC MSC_SCAN event that shall contain that key's scan
369code. An EV_SYN event will always be generated to mark the end of the
370event block.
371
372Do not use the EV_MSC MSC_SCAN events to process keys. They are to be
373used as a helper to remap keys, only. They are particularly useful when
374remapping KEY_UNKNOWN keys.
375
376The events are available in an input device, with the following id:
377
378 Bus: BUS_HOST
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300379 vendor: 0x1014 (PCI_VENDOR_ID_IBM) or
380 0x17aa (PCI_VENDOR_ID_LENOVO)
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300381 product: 0x5054 ("TP")
382 version: 0x4101
383
384The version will have its LSB incremented if the keymap changes in a
385backwards-compatible way. The MSB shall always be 0x41 for this input
386device. If the MSB is not 0x41, do not use the device as described in
387this section, as it is either something else (e.g. another input device
388exported by a thinkpad driver, such as HDAPS) or its functionality has
389been changed in a non-backwards compatible way.
390
391Adding other event types for other functionalities shall be considered a
392backwards-compatible change for this input device.
393
394Thinkpad-acpi Hot Key event map (version 0x4101):
395
396ACPI Scan
397event code Key Notes
398
3990x1001 0x00 FN+F1 -
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -03004000x1002 0x01 FN+F2 IBM: battery (rare)
401 Lenovo: Screen lock
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300402
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -03004030x1003 0x02 FN+F3 Many IBM models always report
404 this hot key, even with hot keys
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300405 disabled or with Fn+F3 masked
406 off
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300407 IBM: screen lock
408 Lenovo: battery
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300409
4100x1004 0x03 FN+F4 Sleep button (ACPI sleep button
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200411 semantics, i.e. sleep-to-RAM).
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300412 It is always generate some kind
413 of event, either the hot key
414 event or a ACPI sleep button
415 event. The firmware may
416 refuse to generate further FN+F4
417 key presses until a S3 or S4 ACPI
418 sleep cycle is performed or some
419 time passes.
420
4210x1005 0x04 FN+F5 Radio. Enables/disables
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200422 the internal Bluetooth hardware
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300423 and W-WAN card if left in control
424 of the firmware. Does not affect
425 the WLAN card.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300426 Should be used to turn on/off all
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200427 radios (Bluetooth+W-WAN+WLAN),
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300428 really.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300429
4300x1006 0x05 FN+F6 -
431
4320x1007 0x06 FN+F7 Video output cycle.
433 Do you feel lucky today?
434
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -03004350x1008 0x07 FN+F8 IBM: toggle screen expand
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200436 Lenovo: configure UltraNav
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300437
4380x1009 0x08 FN+F9 -
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300439 .. .. ..
4400x100B 0x0A FN+F11 -
441
4420x100C 0x0B FN+F12 Sleep to disk. You are always
443 supposed to handle it yourself,
444 either through the ACPI event,
445 or through a hotkey event.
446 The firmware may refuse to
447 generate further FN+F4 key
448 press events until a S3 or S4
449 ACPI sleep cycle is performed,
450 or some time passes.
451
4520x100D 0x0C FN+BACKSPACE -
4530x100E 0x0D FN+INSERT -
4540x100F 0x0E FN+DELETE -
455
4560x1010 0x0F FN+HOME Brightness up. This key is
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300457 always handled by the firmware
458 in IBM ThinkPads, even when
459 unmasked. Just leave it alone.
460 For Lenovo ThinkPads with a new
461 BIOS, it has to be handled either
462 by the ACPI OSI, or by userspace.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh347a2682009-12-09 01:36:24 +0000463 The driver does the right thing,
464 never mess with this.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -03004650x1011 0x10 FN+END Brightness down. See brightness
466 up for details.
467
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -02004680x1012 0x11 FN+PGUP ThinkLight toggle. This key is
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300469 always handled by the firmware,
470 even when unmasked.
471
4720x1013 0x12 FN+PGDOWN -
473
4740x1014 0x13 FN+SPACE Zoom key
475
4760x1015 0x14 VOLUME UP Internal mixer volume up. This
477 key is always handled by the
478 firmware, even when unmasked.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300479 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing
480 this.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -03004810x1016 0x15 VOLUME DOWN Internal mixer volume up. This
482 key is always handled by the
483 firmware, even when unmasked.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhedf0e0e2007-07-18 23:45:44 -0300484 NOTE: Lenovo seems to be changing
485 this.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -03004860x1017 0x16 MUTE Mute internal mixer. This
487 key is always handled by the
488 firmware, even when unmasked.
489
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -02004900x1018 0x17 THINKPAD ThinkPad/Access IBM/Lenovo key
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300491
4920x1019 0x18 unknown
493.. .. ..
4940x1020 0x1F unknown
495
496The ThinkPad firmware does not allow one to differentiate when most hot
497keys are pressed or released (either that, or we don't know how to, yet).
498For these keys, the driver generates a set of events for a key press and
499immediately issues the same set of events for a key release. It is
500unknown by the driver if the ThinkPad firmware triggered these events on
501hot key press or release, but the firmware will do it for either one, not
502both.
503
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300504If a key is mapped to KEY_RESERVED, it generates no input events at all.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300505If a key is mapped to KEY_UNKNOWN, it generates an input event that
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300506includes an scan code. If a key is mapped to anything else, it will
507generate input device EV_KEY events.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300508
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200509In addition to the EV_KEY events, thinkpad-acpi may also issue EV_SW
510events for switches:
511
Matt LaPlante19f59462009-04-27 15:06:31 +0200512SW_RFKILL_ALL T60 and later hardware rfkill rocker switch
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200513SW_TABLET_MODE Tablet ThinkPads HKEY events 0x5009 and 0x500A
514
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -0300515Non hot-key ACPI HKEY event map:
5160x5001 Lid closed
5170x5002 Lid opened
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb3ec6f92008-02-16 02:17:55 -02005180x5009 Tablet swivel: switched to tablet mode
5190x500A Tablet swivel: switched to normal mode
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh6a38abb2007-07-18 23:45:35 -03005200x7000 Radio Switch may have changed state
521
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300522The above events are not propagated by the driver, except for legacy
523compatibility purposes when hotkey_report_mode is set to 1.
524
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha713b4d2008-01-08 13:02:52 -02005250x2304 System is waking up from suspend to undock
5260x2305 System is waking up from suspend to eject bay
5270x2404 System is waking up from hibernation to undock
5280x2405 System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176dd982009-09-20 14:09:24 -03005290x5010 Brightness level changed/control event
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha713b4d2008-01-08 13:02:52 -0200530
531The above events are never propagated by the driver.
532
5330x3003 Bay ejection (see 0x2x05) complete, can sleep again
5340x4003 Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -02005350x500B Tablet pen inserted into its storage bay
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd1edb2b2008-01-08 13:02:53 -02005360x500C Tablet pen removed from its storage bay
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh3b64b512008-01-08 13:02:51 -0200537
538The above events are propagated by the driver.
539
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300540Compatibility notes:
541
542ibm-acpi and thinkpad-acpi 0.15 (mainline kernels before 2.6.23) never
543supported the input layer, and sent events over the procfs ACPI event
544interface.
545
546To avoid sending duplicate events over the input layer and the ACPI
547event interface, thinkpad-acpi 0.16 implements a module parameter
548(hotkey_report_mode), and also a sysfs device attribute with the same
549name.
550
551Make no mistake here: userspace is expected to switch to using the input
552layer interface of thinkpad-acpi, together with the ACPI netlink event
553interface in kernels 2.6.23 and later, or with the ACPI procfs event
554interface in kernels 2.6.22 and earlier.
555
556If no hotkey_report_mode module parameter is specified (or it is set to
557zero), the driver defaults to mode 1 (see below), and on kernels 2.6.22
558and earlier, also allows one to change the hotkey_report_mode through
559sysfs. In kernels 2.6.23 and later, where the netlink ACPI event
560interface is available, hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed through
561sysfs (it is read-only).
562
563If the hotkey_report_mode module parameter is set to 1 or 2, it cannot
564be changed later through sysfs (any writes will return -EPERM to signal
565that hotkey_report_mode was locked. On 2.6.23 and later, where
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200566hotkey_report_mode cannot be changed at all, writes will return -EACCES).
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhff80f132007-09-04 11:13:15 -0300567
568hotkey_report_mode set to 1 makes the driver export through the procfs
569ACPI event interface all hot key presses (which are *also* sent to the
570input layer). This is a legacy compatibility behaviour, and it is also
571the default mode of operation for the driver.
572
573hotkey_report_mode set to 2 makes the driver filter out the hot key
574presses from the procfs ACPI event interface, so these events will only
575be sent through the input layer. Userspace that has been updated to use
576the thinkpad-acpi input layer interface should set hotkey_report_mode to
5772.
578
579Hot key press events are never sent to the ACPI netlink event interface.
580Really up-to-date userspace under kernel 2.6.23 and later is to use the
581netlink interface and the input layer interface, and don't bother at all
582with hotkey_report_mode.
583
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha0416422007-04-27 22:00:16 -0300584
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb5972792008-04-26 01:02:17 -0300585Brightness hotkey notes:
586
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh347a2682009-12-09 01:36:24 +0000587Don't mess with the brightness hotkeys in a Thinkpad. If you want
588notifications for OSD, use the sysfs backlight class event support.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb5972792008-04-26 01:02:17 -0300589
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh347a2682009-12-09 01:36:24 +0000590The driver will issue KEY_BRIGHTNESS_UP and KEY_BRIGHTNESS_DOWN events
591automatically for the cases were userspace has to do something to
592implement brightness changes. When you override these events, you will
593either fail to handle properly the ThinkPads that require explicit
594action to change backlight brightness, or the ThinkPads that require
595that no action be taken to work properly.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb5972792008-04-26 01:02:17 -0300596
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000597
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300598Bluetooth
599---------
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700600
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300601procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0e74dc22008-07-21 09:15:51 -0300602sysfs device attribute: bluetooth_enable (deprecated)
603sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw"
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300604
605This feature shows the presence and current state of a ThinkPad
606Bluetooth device in the internal ThinkPad CDC slot.
607
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000608If the ThinkPad supports it, the Bluetooth state is stored in NVRAM,
609so it is kept across reboots and power-off.
610
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300611Procfs notes:
612
613If Bluetooth is installed, the following commands can be used:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700614
615 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
616 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/bluetooth
617
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300618Sysfs notes:
619
620 If the Bluetooth CDC card is installed, it can be enabled /
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -0300621 disabled through the "bluetooth_enable" thinkpad-acpi device
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300622 attribute, and its current status can also be queried.
623
624 enable:
625 0: disables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is disabled
626 1: enables Bluetooth / Bluetooth is enabled.
627
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0e74dc22008-07-21 09:15:51 -0300628 Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill
629 class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year
630 2010.
631
632 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_bluetooth_sw": refer to
633 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -0300634
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000635
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700636Video output control -- /proc/acpi/ibm/video
637--------------------------------------------
638
639This feature allows control over the devices used for video output -
640LCD, CRT or DVI (if available). The following commands are available:
641
642 echo lcd_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
643 echo lcd_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
644 echo crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
645 echo crt_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
646 echo dvi_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
647 echo dvi_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
648 echo auto_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
649 echo auto_disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
650 echo expand_toggle > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
651 echo video_switch > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
652
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb525c062010-02-25 22:22:22 -0300653NOTE: Access to this feature is restricted to processes owning the
654CAP_SYS_ADMIN capability for safety reasons, as it can interact badly
655enough with some versions of X.org to crash it.
656
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700657Each video output device can be enabled or disabled individually.
658Reading /proc/acpi/ibm/video shows the status of each device.
659
660Automatic video switching can be enabled or disabled. When automatic
661video switching is enabled, certain events (e.g. opening the lid,
662docking or undocking) cause the video output device to change
663automatically. While this can be useful, it also causes flickering
664and, on the X40, video corruption. By disabling automatic switching,
665the flickering or video corruption can be avoided.
666
667The video_switch command cycles through the available video outputs
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400668(it simulates the behavior of Fn-F7).
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700669
670Video expansion can be toggled through this feature. This controls
671whether the display is expanded to fill the entire LCD screen when a
672mode with less than full resolution is used. Note that the current
673video expansion status cannot be determined through this feature.
674
675Note that on many models (particularly those using Radeon graphics
676chips) the X driver configures the video card in a way which prevents
677Fn-F7 from working. This also disables the video output switching
678features of this driver, as it uses the same ACPI methods as
679Fn-F7. Video switching on the console should still work.
680
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000681UPDATE: refer to https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2000
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400682
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400683
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhe3065012008-04-26 01:02:24 -0300684ThinkLight control
685------------------
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700686
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhe3065012008-04-26 01:02:24 -0300687procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/light
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh65807cc2008-04-26 01:02:26 -0300688sysfs attributes: as per LED class, for the "tpacpi::thinklight" LED
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhe3065012008-04-26 01:02:24 -0300689
690procfs notes:
691
692The ThinkLight status can be read and set through the procfs interface. A
693few models which do not make the status available will show the ThinkLight
694status as "unknown". The available commands are:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700695
696 echo on > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
697 echo off > /proc/acpi/ibm/light
698
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhe3065012008-04-26 01:02:24 -0300699sysfs notes:
700
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh65807cc2008-04-26 01:02:26 -0300701The ThinkLight sysfs interface is documented by the LED class
702documentation, in Documentation/leds-class.txt. The ThinkLight LED name
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhe3065012008-04-26 01:02:24 -0300703is "tpacpi::thinklight".
704
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000705Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the ThinkLight
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhe3065012008-04-26 01:02:24 -0300706cannot be read or if it is unknown, thinkpad-acpi will report it as "off".
707It is impossible to know if the status returned through sysfs is valid.
708
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000709
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000710CMOS/UCMS control
711-----------------
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb6160042007-04-24 11:48:19 -0300712
713procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/cmos
714sysfs device attribute: cmos_command
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700715
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd54b7d72007-07-18 23:45:33 -0300716This feature is mostly used internally by the ACPI firmware to keep the legacy
717CMOS NVRAM bits in sync with the current machine state, and to record this
718state so that the ThinkPad will retain such settings across reboots.
719
720Some of these commands actually perform actions in some ThinkPad models, but
721this is expected to disappear more and more in newer models. As an example, in
722a T43 and in a X40, commands 12 and 13 still control the ThinkLight state for
723real, but commands 0 to 2 don't control the mixer anymore (they have been
724phased out) and just update the NVRAM.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700725
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb6160042007-04-24 11:48:19 -0300726The range of valid cmos command numbers is 0 to 21, but not all have an
727effect and the behavior varies from model to model. Here is the behavior
728on the X40 (tpb is the ThinkPad Buttons utility):
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700729
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd54b7d72007-07-18 23:45:33 -0300730 0 - Related to "Volume down" key press
731 1 - Related to "Volume up" key press
732 2 - Related to "Mute on" key press
733 3 - Related to "Access IBM" key press
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200734 4 - Related to "LCD brightness up" key press
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd54b7d72007-07-18 23:45:33 -0300735 5 - Related to "LCD brightness down" key press
736 11 - Related to "toggle screen expansion" key press/function
737 12 - Related to "ThinkLight on"
738 13 - Related to "ThinkLight off"
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -0200739 14 - Related to "ThinkLight" key press (toggle ThinkLight)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700740
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb6160042007-04-24 11:48:19 -0300741The cmos command interface is prone to firmware split-brain problems, as
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd54b7d72007-07-18 23:45:33 -0300742in newer ThinkPads it is just a compatibility layer. Do not use it, it is
743exported just as a debug tool.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb6160042007-04-24 11:48:19 -0300744
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000745
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300746LED control
747-----------
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700748
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300749procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/led
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh65807cc2008-04-26 01:02:26 -0300750sysfs attributes: as per LED class, see below for names
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300751
752Some of the LED indicators can be controlled through this feature. On
753some older ThinkPad models, it is possible to query the status of the
754LED indicators as well. Newer ThinkPads cannot query the real status
755of the LED indicators.
756
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha4d5eff2009-04-04 04:25:49 +0000757Because misuse of the LEDs could induce an unaware user to perform
758dangerous actions (like undocking or ejecting a bay device while the
759buses are still active), or mask an important alarm (such as a nearly
760empty battery, or a broken battery), access to most LEDs is
761restricted.
762
763Unrestricted access to all LEDs requires that thinkpad-acpi be
764compiled with the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_UNSAFE_LEDS option enabled.
765Distributions must never enable this option. Individual users that
766are aware of the consequences are welcome to enabling it.
767
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300768procfs notes:
769
770The available commands are:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700771
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh65807cc2008-04-26 01:02:26 -0300772 echo '<LED number> on' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
773 echo '<LED number> off' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
774 echo '<LED number> blink' >/proc/acpi/ibm/led
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700775
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhf21179a2009-05-30 13:25:08 -0300776The <LED number> range is 0 to 15. The set of LEDs that can be
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300777controlled varies from model to model. Here is the common ThinkPad
778mapping:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700779
780 0 - power
781 1 - battery (orange)
782 2 - battery (green)
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300783 3 - UltraBase/dock
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700784 4 - UltraBay
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300785 5 - UltraBase battery slot
786 6 - (unknown)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700787 7 - standby
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhf21179a2009-05-30 13:25:08 -0300788 8 - dock status 1
789 9 - dock status 2
790 10, 11 - (unknown)
791 12 - thinkvantage
792 13, 14, 15 - (unknown)
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700793
794All of the above can be turned on and off and can be made to blink.
795
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300796sysfs notes:
797
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh65807cc2008-04-26 01:02:26 -0300798The ThinkPad LED sysfs interface is described in detail by the LED class
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300799documentation, in Documentation/leds-class.txt.
800
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhf21179a2009-05-30 13:25:08 -0300801The LEDs are named (in LED ID order, from 0 to 12):
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300802"tpacpi::power", "tpacpi:orange:batt", "tpacpi:green:batt",
803"tpacpi::dock_active", "tpacpi::bay_active", "tpacpi::dock_batt",
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhf21179a2009-05-30 13:25:08 -0300804"tpacpi::unknown_led", "tpacpi::standby", "tpacpi::dock_status1",
805"tpacpi::dock_status2", "tpacpi::unknown_led2", "tpacpi::unknown_led3",
806"tpacpi::thinkvantage".
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300807
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh65807cc2008-04-26 01:02:26 -0300808Due to limitations in the sysfs LED class, if the status of the LED
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhaf116102008-04-26 01:02:25 -0300809indicators cannot be read due to an error, thinkpad-acpi will report it as
810a brightness of zero (same as LED off).
811
812If the thinkpad firmware doesn't support reading the current status,
813trying to read the current LED brightness will just return whatever
814brightness was last written to that attribute.
815
816These LEDs can blink using hardware acceleration. To request that a
817ThinkPad indicator LED should blink in hardware accelerated mode, use the
818"timer" trigger, and leave the delay_on and delay_off parameters set to
819zero (to request hardware acceleration autodetection).
820
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhf21179a2009-05-30 13:25:08 -0300821LEDs that are known not to exist in a given ThinkPad model are not
822made available through the sysfs interface. If you have a dock and you
823notice there are LEDs listed for your ThinkPad that do not exist (and
824are not in the dock), or if you notice that there are missing LEDs,
825a report to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net is appreciated.
826
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000827
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400828ACPI sounds -- /proc/acpi/ibm/beep
829----------------------------------
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700830
831The BEEP method is used internally by the ACPI firmware to provide
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400832audible alerts in various situations. This feature allows the same
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700833sounds to be triggered manually.
834
835The commands are non-negative integer numbers:
836
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400837 echo <number> >/proc/acpi/ibm/beep
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700838
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400839The valid <number> range is 0 to 17. Not all numbers trigger sounds
840and the sounds vary from model to model. Here is the behavior on the
841X40:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700842
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400843 0 - stop a sound in progress (but use 17 to stop 16)
844 2 - two beeps, pause, third beep ("low battery")
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700845 3 - single beep
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400846 4 - high, followed by low-pitched beep ("unable")
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700847 5 - single beep
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400848 6 - very high, followed by high-pitched beep ("AC/DC")
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700849 7 - high-pitched beep
850 9 - three short beeps
851 10 - very long beep
852 12 - low-pitched beep
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400853 15 - three high-pitched beeps repeating constantly, stop with 0
854 16 - one medium-pitched beep repeating constantly, stop with 17
855 17 - stop 16
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700856
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +0000857
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2c37aa42007-04-24 11:48:16 -0300858Temperature sensors
859-------------------
860
861procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/thermal
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -0300862sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") temp*_input
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -0700863
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh3d6f99c2007-07-18 23:45:46 -0300864Most ThinkPads include six or more separate temperature sensors but only
865expose the CPU temperature through the standard ACPI methods. This
866feature shows readings from up to eight different sensors on older
867ThinkPads, and up to sixteen different sensors on newer ThinkPads.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh60eb0b32006-11-24 11:47:08 -0200868
869For example, on the X40, a typical output may be:
870temperatures: 42 42 45 41 36 -128 33 -128
871
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh3d6f99c2007-07-18 23:45:46 -0300872On the T43/p, a typical output may be:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh60eb0b32006-11-24 11:47:08 -0200873temperatures: 48 48 36 52 38 -128 31 -128 48 52 48 -128 -128 -128 -128 -128
874
875The mapping of thermal sensors to physical locations varies depending on
876system-board model (and thus, on ThinkPad model).
877
878http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors is a public wiki page that
879tries to track down these locations for various models.
880
881Most (newer?) models seem to follow this pattern:
882
8831: CPU
8842: (depends on model)
8853: (depends on model)
8864: GPU
8875: Main battery: main sensor
8886: Bay battery: main sensor
8897: Main battery: secondary sensor
8908: Bay battery: secondary sensor
8919-15: (depends on model)
892
893For the R51 (source: Thomas Gruber):
8942: Mini-PCI
8953: Internal HDD
896
897For the T43, T43/p (source: Shmidoax/Thinkwiki.org)
898http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_T43.2C_T43p
8992: System board, left side (near PCMCIA slot), reported as HDAPS temp
9003: PCMCIA slot
9019: MCH (northbridge) to DRAM Bus
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb8b26402007-07-18 23:45:28 -030090210: Clock-generator, mini-pci card and ICH (southbridge), under Mini-PCI
903 card, under touchpad
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh60eb0b32006-11-24 11:47:08 -020090411: Power regulator, underside of system board, below F2 key
905
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh88679a12006-11-24 11:47:09 -0200906The A31 has a very atypical layout for the thermal sensors
907(source: Milos Popovic, http://thinkwiki.org/wiki/Thermal_Sensors#ThinkPad_A31)
9081: CPU
9092: Main Battery: main sensor
9103: Power Converter
9114: Bay Battery: main sensor
9125: MCH (northbridge)
9136: PCMCIA/ambient
9147: Main Battery: secondary sensor
9158: Bay Battery: secondary sensor
916
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh60eb0b32006-11-24 11:47:08 -0200917
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2c37aa42007-04-24 11:48:16 -0300918Procfs notes:
919 Readings from sensors that are not available return -128.
920 No commands can be written to this file.
921
922Sysfs notes:
923 Sensors that are not available return the ENXIO error. This
924 status may change at runtime, as there are hotplug thermal
925 sensors, like those inside the batteries and docks.
926
927 thinkpad-acpi thermal sensors are reported through the hwmon
928 subsystem, and follow all of the hwmon guidelines at
929 Documentation/hwmon.
930
931
Matt LaPlanted6bc8ac2006-10-03 22:54:15 +0200932EXPERIMENTAL: Embedded controller register dump -- /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400933------------------------------------------------------------------------
934
935This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because the implementation
936directly accesses hardware registers and may not work as expected. USE
937WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply the
938experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
939
940This feature dumps the values of 256 embedded controller
941registers. Values which have changed since the last time the registers
942were dumped are marked with a star:
943
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh837ca6d2007-03-23 17:33:54 -0300944[root@x40 ibm-acpi]# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400945EC +00 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +0a +0b +0c +0d +0e +0f
946EC 0x00: a7 47 87 01 fe 96 00 08 01 00 cb 00 00 00 40 00
947EC 0x10: 00 00 ff ff f4 3c 87 09 01 ff 42 01 ff ff 0d 00
948EC 0x20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 43 00 00 80
949EC 0x30: 01 07 1a 00 30 04 00 00 *85 00 00 10 00 50 00 00
950EC 0x40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00
951EC 0x50: 00 c0 02 0d 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 *bc *02 *bc
952EC 0x60: *02 *bc *02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
953EC 0x70: 00 00 00 00 00 12 30 40 *24 *26 *2c *27 *20 80 *1f 80
954EC 0x80: 00 00 00 06 *37 *0e 03 00 00 00 0e 07 00 00 00 00
955EC 0x90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
956EC 0xa0: *ff 09 ff 09 ff ff *64 00 *00 *00 *a2 41 *ff *ff *e0 00
957EC 0xb0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
958EC 0xc0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
959EC 0xd0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
960EC 0xe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 20 49 04 24 06 55 03
961EC 0xf0: 31 55 48 54 35 38 57 57 08 2f 45 73 07 65 6c 1a
962
963This feature can be used to determine the register holding the fan
964speed on some models. To do that, do the following:
965
966 - make sure the battery is fully charged
967 - make sure the fan is running
968 - run 'cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump' several times, once per second or so
969
970The first step makes sure various charging-related values don't
971vary. The second ensures that the fan-related values do vary, since
972the fan speed fluctuates a bit. The third will (hopefully) mark the
973fan register with a star:
974
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh837ca6d2007-03-23 17:33:54 -0300975[root@x40 ibm-acpi]# cat /proc/acpi/ibm/ecdump
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -0400976EC +00 +01 +02 +03 +04 +05 +06 +07 +08 +09 +0a +0b +0c +0d +0e +0f
977EC 0x00: a7 47 87 01 fe 96 00 08 01 00 cb 00 00 00 40 00
978EC 0x10: 00 00 ff ff f4 3c 87 09 01 ff 42 01 ff ff 0d 00
979EC 0x20: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 03 43 00 00 80
980EC 0x30: 01 07 1a 00 30 04 00 00 85 00 00 10 00 50 00 00
981EC 0x40: 00 00 00 00 00 00 14 01 00 04 00 00 00 00 00 00
982EC 0x50: 00 c0 02 0d 00 01 01 02 02 03 03 03 03 bc 02 bc
983EC 0x60: 02 bc 02 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
984EC 0x70: 00 00 00 00 00 12 30 40 24 27 2c 27 21 80 1f 80
985EC 0x80: 00 00 00 06 *be 0d 03 00 00 00 0e 07 00 00 00 00
986EC 0x90: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
987EC 0xa0: ff 09 ff 09 ff ff 64 00 00 00 a2 41 ff ff e0 00
988EC 0xb0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
989EC 0xc0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
990EC 0xd0: 03 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
991EC 0xe0: 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 11 20 49 04 24 06 55 03
992EC 0xf0: 31 55 48 54 35 38 57 57 08 2f 45 73 07 65 6c 1a
993
994Another set of values that varies often is the temperature
995readings. Since temperatures don't change vary fast, you can take
996several quick dumps to eliminate them.
997
998You can use a similar method to figure out the meaning of other
999embedded controller registers - e.g. make sure nothing else changes
1000except the charging or discharging battery to determine which
1001registers contain the current battery capacity, etc. If you experiment
1002with this, do send me your results (including some complete dumps with
1003a description of the conditions when they were taken.)
1004
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +00001005
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001006LCD brightness control
1007----------------------
1008
1009procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1010sysfs backlight device "thinkpad_screen"
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001011
1012This feature allows software control of the LCD brightness on ThinkPad
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001013models which don't have a hardware brightness slider.
1014
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +00001015It has some limitations: the LCD backlight cannot be actually turned
1016on or off by this interface, it just controls the backlight brightness
1017level.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001018
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001019On IBM (and some of the earlier Lenovo) ThinkPads, the backlight control
1020has eight brightness levels, ranging from 0 to 7. Some of the levels
1021may not be distinct. Later Lenovo models that implement the ACPI
1022display backlight brightness control methods have 16 levels, ranging
1023from 0 to 15.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001024
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd7880f12009-06-18 00:40:16 -03001025For IBM ThinkPads, there are two interfaces to the firmware for direct
1026brightness control, EC and UCMS (or CMOS). To select which one should be
1027used, use the brightness_mode module parameter: brightness_mode=1 selects
1028EC mode, brightness_mode=2 selects UCMS mode, brightness_mode=3 selects EC
1029mode with NVRAM backing (so that brightness changes are remembered across
1030shutdown/reboot).
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0e501832009-04-04 04:25:53 +00001031
1032The driver tries to select which interface to use from a table of
1033defaults for each ThinkPad model. If it makes a wrong choice, please
1034report this as a bug, so that we can fix it.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001035
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd7880f12009-06-18 00:40:16 -03001036Lenovo ThinkPads only support brightness_mode=2 (UCMS).
1037
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001038When display backlight brightness controls are available through the
1039standard ACPI interface, it is best to use it instead of this direct
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhe11e2112007-10-30 17:46:22 -02001040ThinkPad-specific interface. The driver will disable its native
1041backlight brightness control interface if it detects that the standard
1042ACPI interface is available in the ThinkPad.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh24d3b772007-07-18 23:45:43 -03001043
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh87cc5372007-10-30 18:02:07 -02001044The brightness_enable module parameter can be used to control whether
1045the LCD brightness control feature will be enabled when available.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhe11e2112007-10-30 17:46:22 -02001046brightness_enable=0 forces it to be disabled. brightness_enable=1
1047forces it to be enabled when available, even if the standard ACPI
1048interface is also available.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh87cc5372007-10-30 18:02:07 -02001049
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001050Procfs notes:
1051
1052 The available commands are:
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001053
1054 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1055 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1056 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/brightness
1057
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001058Sysfs notes:
1059
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001060The interface is implemented through the backlight sysfs class, which is
1061poorly documented at this time.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001062
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001063Locate the thinkpad_screen device under /sys/class/backlight, and inside
1064it there will be the following attributes:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001065
1066 max_brightness:
1067 Reads the maximum brightness the hardware can be set to.
1068 The minimum is always zero.
1069
1070 actual_brightness:
1071 Reads what brightness the screen is set to at this instant.
1072
1073 brightness:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001074 Writes request the driver to change brightness to the
1075 given value. Reads will tell you what brightness the
1076 driver is trying to set the display to when "power" is set
1077 to zero and the display has not been dimmed by a kernel
1078 power management event.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001079
1080 power:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha3f104c2007-10-30 17:46:20 -02001081 power management mode, where 0 is "display on", and 1 to 3
1082 will dim the display backlight to brightness level 0
1083 because thinkpad-acpi cannot really turn the backlight
1084 off. Kernel power management events can temporarily
1085 increase the current power management level, i.e. they can
1086 dim the display.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7d5a0152007-04-24 11:48:20 -03001087
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001088
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb5972792008-04-26 01:02:17 -03001089WARNING:
1090
1091 Whatever you do, do NOT ever call thinkpad-acpi backlight-level change
1092 interface and the ACPI-based backlight level change interface
1093 (available on newer BIOSes, and driven by the Linux ACPI video driver)
1094 at the same time. The two will interact in bad ways, do funny things,
1095 and maybe reduce the life of the backlight lamps by needlessly kicking
1096 its level up and down at every change.
1097
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +00001098
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh169220f2009-12-26 22:52:16 -02001099Volume control (Console Audio control)
1100--------------------------------------
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001101
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh329e4e12009-12-15 21:51:08 -02001102procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/volume
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0d204c32009-12-15 21:51:11 -02001103ALSA: "ThinkPad Console Audio Control", default ID: "ThinkPadEC"
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh329e4e12009-12-15 21:51:08 -02001104
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhc7ac6292009-12-15 21:51:10 -02001105NOTE: by default, the volume control interface operates in read-only
1106mode, as it is supposed to be used for on-screen-display purposes.
1107The read/write mode can be enabled through the use of the
1108"volume_control=1" module parameter.
1109
1110NOTE: distros are urged to not enable volume_control by default, this
1111should be done by the local admin only. The ThinkPad UI is for the
1112console audio control to be done through the volume keys only, and for
1113the desktop environment to just provide on-screen-display feedback.
1114Software volume control should be done only in the main AC97/HDA
1115mixer.
1116
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh169220f2009-12-26 22:52:16 -02001117
1118About the ThinkPad Console Audio control:
1119
1120ThinkPads have a built-in amplifier and muting circuit that drives the
1121console headphone and speakers. This circuit is after the main AC97
1122or HDA mixer in the audio path, and under exclusive control of the
1123firmware.
1124
1125ThinkPads have three special hotkeys to interact with the console
1126audio control: volume up, volume down and mute.
1127
1128It is worth noting that the normal way the mute function works (on
1129ThinkPads that do not have a "mute LED") is:
1130
11311. Press mute to mute. It will *always* mute, you can press it as
1132 many times as you want, and the sound will remain mute.
1133
11342. Press either volume key to unmute the ThinkPad (it will _not_
1135 change the volume, it will just unmute).
1136
1137This is a very superior design when compared to the cheap software-only
1138mute-toggle solution found on normal consumer laptops: you can be
1139absolutely sure the ThinkPad will not make noise if you press the mute
1140button, no matter the previous state.
1141
1142The IBM ThinkPads, and the earlier Lenovo ThinkPads have variable-gain
1143amplifiers driving the speakers and headphone output, and the firmware
1144also handles volume control for the headphone and speakers on these
1145ThinkPads without any help from the operating system (this volume
1146control stage exists after the main AC97 or HDA mixer in the audio
1147path).
1148
1149The newer Lenovo models only have firmware mute control, and depend on
1150the main HDA mixer to do volume control (which is done by the operating
1151system). In this case, the volume keys are filtered out for unmute
1152key press (there are some firmware bugs in this area) and delivered as
1153normal key presses to the operating system (thinkpad-acpi is not
1154involved).
1155
1156
1157The ThinkPad-ACPI volume control:
1158
1159The preferred way to interact with the Console Audio control is the
1160ALSA interface.
1161
1162The legacy procfs interface allows one to read the current state,
1163and if volume control is enabled, accepts the following commands:
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001164
1165 echo up >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1166 echo down >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1167 echo mute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha112cee2009-12-15 21:51:09 -02001168 echo unmute >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001169 echo 'level <level>' >/proc/acpi/ibm/volume
1170
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh329e4e12009-12-15 21:51:08 -02001171The <level> number range is 0 to 14 although not all of them may be
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh169220f2009-12-26 22:52:16 -02001172distinct. To unmute the volume after the mute command, use either the
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha112cee2009-12-15 21:51:09 -02001173up or down command (the level command will not unmute the volume), or
1174the unmute command.
1175
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha112cee2009-12-15 21:51:09 -02001176You can use the volume_capabilities parameter to tell the driver
1177whether your thinkpad has volume control or mute-only control:
1178volume_capabilities=1 for mixers with mute and volume control,
1179volume_capabilities=2 for mixers with only mute control.
1180
1181If the driver misdetects the capabilities for your ThinkPad model,
1182please report this to ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, so that we
1183can update the driver.
1184
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh329e4e12009-12-15 21:51:08 -02001185There are two strategies for volume control. To select which one
1186should be used, use the volume_mode module parameter: volume_mode=1
1187selects EC mode, and volume_mode=3 selects EC mode with NVRAM backing
1188(so that volume/mute changes are remembered across shutdown/reboot).
1189
1190The driver will operate in volume_mode=3 by default. If that does not
1191work well on your ThinkPad model, please report this to
1192ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net.
1193
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0d204c32009-12-15 21:51:11 -02001194The driver supports the standard ALSA module parameters. If the ALSA
1195mixer is disabled, the driver will disable all volume functionality.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +00001196
1197
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhecf2a802007-04-27 22:00:09 -03001198Fan control and monitoring: fan speed, fan enable/disable
1199---------------------------------------------------------
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001200
1201procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -03001202sysfs device attributes: (hwmon "thinkpad") fan1_input, pwm1,
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd7377242009-06-18 00:40:17 -03001203 pwm1_enable, fan2_input
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -03001204sysfs hwmon driver attributes: fan_watchdog
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001205
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhecf2a802007-04-27 22:00:09 -03001206NOTE NOTE NOTE: fan control operations are disabled by default for
1207safety reasons. To enable them, the module parameter "fan_control=1"
1208must be given to thinkpad-acpi.
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001209
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001210This feature attempts to show the current fan speed, control mode and
1211other fan data that might be available. The speed is read directly
1212from the hardware registers of the embedded controller. This is known
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhecf2a802007-04-27 22:00:09 -03001213to work on later R, T, X and Z series ThinkPads but may show a bogus
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001214value on other models.
1215
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd7377242009-06-18 00:40:17 -03001216Some Lenovo ThinkPads support a secondary fan. This fan cannot be
1217controlled separately, it shares the main fan control.
1218
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001219Fan levels:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001220
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001221Most ThinkPad fans work in "levels" at the firmware interface. Level 0
1222stops the fan. The higher the level, the higher the fan speed, although
1223adjacent levels often map to the same fan speed. 7 is the highest
1224level, where the fan reaches the maximum recommended speed.
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001225
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001226Level "auto" means the EC changes the fan level according to some
1227internal algorithm, usually based on readings from the thermal sensors.
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001228
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001229There is also a "full-speed" level, also known as "disengaged" level.
1230In this level, the EC disables the speed-locked closed-loop fan control,
1231and drives the fan as fast as it can go, which might exceed hardware
1232limits, so use this level with caution.
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001233
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001234The fan usually ramps up or down slowly from one speed to another, and
1235it is normal for the EC to take several seconds to react to fan
1236commands. The full-speed level may take up to two minutes to ramp up to
1237maximum speed, and in some ThinkPads, the tachometer readings go stale
1238while the EC is transitioning to the full-speed level.
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001239
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001240WARNING WARNING WARNING: do not leave the fan disabled unless you are
1241monitoring all of the temperature sensor readings and you are ready to
1242enable it if necessary to avoid overheating.
1243
1244An enabled fan in level "auto" may stop spinning if the EC decides the
1245ThinkPad is cool enough and doesn't need the extra airflow. This is
Matt LaPlante01dd2fb2007-10-20 01:34:40 +02001246normal, and the EC will spin the fan up if the various thermal readings
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001247rise too much.
1248
1249On the X40, this seems to depend on the CPU and HDD temperatures.
1250Specifically, the fan is turned on when either the CPU temperature
1251climbs to 56 degrees or the HDD temperature climbs to 46 degrees. The
1252fan is turned off when the CPU temperature drops to 49 degrees and the
1253HDD temperature drops to 41 degrees. These thresholds cannot
1254currently be controlled.
1255
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha12095c2006-11-24 11:47:13 -02001256The ThinkPad's ACPI DSDT code will reprogram the fan on its own when
1257certain conditions are met. It will override any fan programming done
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -03001258through thinkpad-acpi.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001259
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -03001260The thinkpad-acpi kernel driver can be programmed to revert the fan
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001261level to a safe setting if userspace does not issue one of the procfs
1262fan commands: "enable", "disable", "level" or "watchdog", or if there
1263are no writes to pwm1_enable (or to pwm1 *if and only if* pwm1_enable is
1264set to 1, manual mode) within a configurable amount of time of up to
1265120 seconds. This functionality is called fan safety watchdog.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh38f996e2007-03-23 17:33:59 -03001266
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001267Note that the watchdog timer stops after it enables the fan. It will be
1268rearmed again automatically (using the same interval) when one of the
1269above mentioned fan commands is received. The fan watchdog is,
1270therefore, not suitable to protect against fan mode changes made through
1271means other than the "enable", "disable", and "level" procfs fan
1272commands, or the hwmon fan control sysfs interface.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh38f996e2007-03-23 17:33:59 -03001273
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001274Procfs notes:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh38f996e2007-03-23 17:33:59 -03001275
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001276The fan may be enabled or disabled with the following commands:
1277
1278 echo enable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1279 echo disable >/proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1280
1281Placing a fan on level 0 is the same as disabling it. Enabling a fan
1282will try to place it in a safe level if it is too slow or disabled.
1283
1284The fan level can be controlled with the command:
1285
1286 echo 'level <level>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1287
1288Where <level> is an integer from 0 to 7, or one of the words "auto" or
1289"full-speed" (without the quotes). Not all ThinkPads support the "auto"
1290and "full-speed" levels. The driver accepts "disengaged" as an alias for
1291"full-speed", and reports it as "disengaged" for backwards
1292compatibility.
1293
1294On the X31 and X40 (and ONLY on those models), the fan speed can be
1295controlled to a certain degree. Once the fan is running, it can be
1296forced to run faster or slower with the following command:
1297
1298 echo 'speed <speed>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1299
1300The sustainable range of fan speeds on the X40 appears to be from about
13013700 to about 7350. Values outside this range either do not have any
1302effect or the fan speed eventually settles somewhere in that range. The
1303fan cannot be stopped or started with this command. This functionality
1304is incomplete, and not available through the sysfs interface.
1305
1306To program the safety watchdog, use the "watchdog" command.
1307
1308 echo 'watchdog <interval in seconds>' > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
1309
1310If you want to disable the watchdog, use 0 as the interval.
1311
1312Sysfs notes:
1313
1314The sysfs interface follows the hwmon subsystem guidelines for the most
1315part, and the exception is the fan safety watchdog.
1316
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb39fe582007-04-27 22:00:13 -03001317Writes to any of the sysfs attributes may return the EINVAL error if
1318that operation is not supported in a given ThinkPad or if the parameter
1319is out-of-bounds, and EPERM if it is forbidden. They may also return
1320EINTR (interrupted system call), and EIO (I/O error while trying to talk
1321to the firmware).
1322
1323Features not yet implemented by the driver return ENOSYS.
1324
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001325hwmon device attribute pwm1_enable:
1326 0: PWM offline (fan is set to full-speed mode)
1327 1: Manual PWM control (use pwm1 to set fan level)
1328 2: Hardware PWM control (EC "auto" mode)
1329 3: reserved (Software PWM control, not implemented yet)
1330
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb39fe582007-04-27 22:00:13 -03001331 Modes 0 and 2 are not supported by all ThinkPads, and the
1332 driver is not always able to detect this. If it does know a
1333 mode is unsupported, it will return -EINVAL.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001334
1335hwmon device attribute pwm1:
1336 Fan level, scaled from the firmware values of 0-7 to the hwmon
1337 scale of 0-255. 0 means fan stopped, 255 means highest normal
1338 speed (level 7).
1339
1340 This attribute only commands the fan if pmw1_enable is set to 1
1341 (manual PWM control).
1342
1343hwmon device attribute fan1_input:
1344 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM. May go stale on certain
1345 ThinkPads while the EC transitions the PWM to offline mode,
1346 which can take up to two minutes. May return rubbish on older
1347 ThinkPads.
1348
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd7377242009-06-18 00:40:17 -03001349hwmon device attribute fan2_input:
1350 Fan tachometer reading, in RPM, for the secondary fan.
1351 Available only on some ThinkPads. If the secondary fan is
1352 not installed, will always read 0.
1353
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -03001354hwmon driver attribute fan_watchdog:
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001355 Fan safety watchdog timer interval, in seconds. Minimum is
1356 1 second, maximum is 120 seconds. 0 disables the watchdog.
1357
1358To stop the fan: set pwm1 to zero, and pwm1_enable to 1.
1359
1360To start the fan in a safe mode: set pwm1_enable to 2. If that fails
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhb39fe582007-04-27 22:00:13 -03001361with EINVAL, try to set pwm1_enable to 1 and pwm1 to at least 128 (255
1362would be the safest choice, though).
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe98a522007-04-24 11:48:17 -03001363
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh38f996e2007-03-23 17:33:59 -03001364
Jeremy Fitzhardinge9662e082008-08-27 21:04:49 -07001365WAN
1366---
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -03001367
1368procfs: /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0e74dc22008-07-21 09:15:51 -03001369sysfs device attribute: wwan_enable (deprecated)
1370sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw"
Stefan Schmidt28b779d2006-09-22 12:19:16 +02001371
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +00001372This feature shows the presence and current state of the built-in
1373Wireless WAN device.
1374
1375If the ThinkPad supports it, the WWAN state is stored in NVRAM,
1376so it is kept across reboots and power-off.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -03001377
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -02001378It was tested on a Lenovo ThinkPad X60. It should probably work on other
1379ThinkPad models which come with this module installed.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -03001380
1381Procfs notes:
1382
1383If the W-WAN card is installed, the following commands can be used:
Stefan Schmidt28b779d2006-09-22 12:19:16 +02001384
1385 echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1386 echo disable > /proc/acpi/ibm/wan
1387
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -03001388Sysfs notes:
1389
1390 If the W-WAN card is installed, it can be enabled /
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhcc4c24e2007-05-30 20:50:14 -03001391 disabled through the "wwan_enable" thinkpad-acpi device
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd3a6ade2007-04-27 22:00:17 -03001392 attribute, and its current status can also be queried.
1393
1394 enable:
1395 0: disables WWAN card / WWAN card is disabled
1396 1: enables WWAN card / WWAN card is enabled.
1397
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0e74dc22008-07-21 09:15:51 -03001398 Note: this interface has been superseded by the generic rfkill
1399 class. It has been deprecated, and it will be removed in year
1400 2010.
1401
1402 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_wwan_sw": refer to
1403 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001404
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +00001405
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0045c0a2009-01-11 03:01:03 -02001406EXPERIMENTAL: UWB
1407-----------------
1408
1409This feature is marked EXPERIMENTAL because it has not been extensively
1410tested and validated in various ThinkPad models yet. The feature may not
1411work as expected. USE WITH CAUTION! To use this feature, you need to supply
1412the experimental=1 parameter when loading the module.
1413
1414sysfs rfkill class: switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw"
1415
1416This feature exports an rfkill controller for the UWB device, if one is
1417present and enabled in the BIOS.
1418
1419Sysfs notes:
1420
1421 rfkill controller switch "tpacpi_uwb_sw": refer to
1422 Documentation/rfkill.txt for details.
1423
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +00001424
Borislav Deianov78f81cc2005-08-17 00:00:00 -04001425Multiple Commands, Module Parameters
1426------------------------------------
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001427
1428Multiple commands can be written to the proc files in one shot by
1429separating them with commas, for example:
1430
1431 echo enable,0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey
1432 echo lcd_disable,crt_enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/video
1433
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -03001434Commands can also be specified when loading the thinkpad-acpi module,
1435for example:
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001436
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh643f12d2007-03-29 01:58:43 -03001437 modprobe thinkpad_acpi hotkey=enable,0xffff video=auto_disable
Linus Torvalds1da177e2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07001438
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +00001439
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh132ce092007-04-21 11:08:30 -03001440Enabling debugging output
1441-------------------------
1442
Simon Arlott0f035b82007-10-20 01:30:25 +02001443The module takes a debug parameter which can be used to selectively
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh132ce092007-04-21 11:08:30 -03001444enable various classes of debugging output, for example:
1445
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh5f249272008-02-16 02:17:51 -02001446 modprobe thinkpad_acpi debug=0xffff
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh132ce092007-04-21 11:08:30 -03001447
1448will enable all debugging output classes. It takes a bitmask, so
1449to enable more than one output class, just add their values.
1450
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe08bc42007-04-21 11:08:32 -03001451 Debug bitmask Description
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh73a94d82009-04-04 04:25:47 +00001452 0x8000 Disclose PID of userspace programs
1453 accessing some functions of the driver
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe08bc42007-04-21 11:08:32 -03001454 0x0001 Initialization and probing
1455 0x0002 Removal
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhbee4cd92009-04-04 04:25:50 +00001456 0x0004 RF Transmitter control (RFKILL)
1457 (bluetooth, WWAN, UWB...)
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh56e2c202009-04-04 04:25:51 +00001458 0x0008 HKEY event interface, hotkeys
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh74a60c02009-04-04 04:25:52 +00001459 0x0010 Fan control
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0e501832009-04-04 04:25:53 +00001460 0x0020 Backlight brightness
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh329e4e12009-12-15 21:51:08 -02001461 0x0040 Audio mixer/volume control
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhfe08bc42007-04-21 11:08:32 -03001462
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh132ce092007-04-21 11:08:30 -03001463There is also a kernel build option to enable more debugging
1464information, which may be necessary to debug driver problems.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0dcef772007-04-21 11:08:34 -03001465
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -03001466The level of debugging information output by the driver can be changed
1467at runtime through sysfs, using the driver attribute debug_level. The
1468attribute takes the same bitmask as the debug module parameter above.
1469
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh078ac192009-04-04 04:25:44 +00001470
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0dcef772007-04-21 11:08:34 -03001471Force loading of module
1472-----------------------
1473
1474If thinkpad-acpi refuses to detect your ThinkPad, you can try to specify
1475the module parameter force_load=1. Regardless of whether this works or
1476not, please contact ibm-acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net with a report.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh176750d2007-04-24 11:48:13 -03001477
1478
1479Sysfs interface changelog:
1480
14810x000100: Initial sysfs support, as a single platform driver and
1482 device.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh94b08712007-07-18 23:45:32 -030014830x000200: Hot key support for 32 hot keys, and radio slider switch
1484 support.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh741553c2007-07-18 23:45:39 -030014850x010000: Hot keys are now handled by default over the input
1486 layer, the radio switch generates input event EV_RADIO,
1487 and the driver enables hot key handling by default in
1488 the firmware.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh7fd40022007-09-25 06:38:03 -03001489
14900x020000: ABI fix: added a separate hwmon platform device and
1491 driver, which must be located by name (thinkpad)
1492 and the hwmon class for libsensors4 (lm-sensors 3)
1493 compatibility. Moved all hwmon attributes to this
1494 new platform device.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -02001495
14960x020100: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
1497 support. If you must, use it to know you should not
Frederik Schwarzer0211a9c2008-12-29 22:14:56 +01001498 start a userspace NVRAM poller (allows to detect when
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -02001499 NVRAM is compiled out by the user because it is
1500 unneeded/undesired in the first place).
15010x020101: Marker for thinkpad-acpi with hot key NVRAM polling
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhd0788cf2008-02-16 02:17:56 -02001502 and proper hotkey_mask semantics (version 8 of the
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh01e88f22008-01-08 13:02:41 -02001503 NVRAM polling patch). Some development snapshots of
1504 0.18 had an earlier version that did strange things
1505 to hotkey_mask.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh50ebec02008-01-08 13:02:55 -02001506
15070x020200: Add poll()/select() support to the following attributes:
1508 hotkey_radio_sw, wakeup_hotunplug_complete, wakeup_reason
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2586d562009-04-04 04:25:48 +00001509
15100x020300: hotkey enable/disable support removed, attributes
1511 hotkey_bios_enabled and hotkey_enable deprecated and
1512 marked for removal.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhf21179a2009-05-30 13:25:08 -03001513
15140x020400: Marker for 16 LEDs support. Also, LEDs that are known
1515 to not exist in a given model are not registered with
1516 the LED sysfs class anymore.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0d922e32009-09-20 14:09:25 -03001517
15180x020500: Updated hotkey driver, hotkey_mask is always available
1519 and it is always able to disable hot keys. Very old
1520 thinkpads are properly supported. hotkey_bios_mask
1521 is deprecated and marked for removal.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh347a2682009-12-09 01:36:24 +00001522
15230x020600: Marker for backlight change event support.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuha112cee2009-12-15 21:51:09 -02001524
15250x020700: Support for mute-only mixers.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuhc7ac6292009-12-15 21:51:10 -02001526 Volume control in read-only mode by default.
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh0d204c32009-12-15 21:51:11 -02001527 Marker for ALSA mixer support.