AntonKrug - tp_smapi = HDD protection + battery control + laptop insted of joystick

tp_smapi = HDD protection + battery control + laptop insted of joystick

Wed, 19 May 2010 (tags:linux)

So to get all working you need 2.6.32 kernel. Why 2.6.32 kernel? Because the Intel 5300 support is there already build in and in Debian default 2.6.26 you will be struggling to get it working and as well from 2.6.28 the hdaps_protect patch is not needed anymore. The libata driver is doing the disk head parking and queue freezing for you. And the vmware-tools are compiling without any problem with VMware 7 (if not, try updated version 7.0.1). So The 2.6.32 from back-ports it's not so bad choice.

sudo su

apt-get install linux-source-2.6.32

cd /usr/src/

tar xzvf linux-source-2.6.32.tar.bz2

cd linux-source-2.6.32

make menuconfig

in the menu config I changed the "Processor family" to "Core 2/ newer Xeon" instead of "Generic-x86-64" to get little bit better optimizations

make-kpkg --initrd kernel_image --append-to-version moje

dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.32moje_2.6.32moje-10.00.Custom_amd64.deb

reboot into the new kernel

get ready to reinstall Nvidia drivers (for 2.6.32 you need gcc-4.3 and for 2.6.26 gcc-4.1)

With new running kernel...

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/tpctl/tp_smapi/0.40/tp_smapi-0.40.tgz?use_mirror=ovh

tar xzvf tp_smapi-0.40.tgz

cd tp_smapi-0.40

make install HDAPS=1

echo options hdaps invert=6 >> /etc/modprobe.d/options

this will invert the axis to show corect possition in hdaps-gl

if you want you can make patch for kernel

make patch

patch -p1 -d /lib/modules/2.6.32moje/source

and then when compiling kernel you can enable

ThinkPad SMAPI Support (TP_SMAPI) [N/m/y/?] (NEW)

as module and you don't have to compile this module seperately, it will be done together with kernel

now you can just

modprobe tp_smapi

and it should be avaible in sysfs /sys/devices/platform/hdaps

The debian deamon hdapsd could not see it anyway so I get it from sources

wget http://downloads.sourceforge.net/project/hdaps/hdapsd/hdapsd-20090401/hdapsd-20090401.tar.gz?use_mirror=kent

tar xzvf hdapsd-20090401.tar.gz

cd hdapsd-20090401

./configure

make

make install

create /etc/init.d/hdapsd2 file:

kill -9 `pidof hdaspd`

sleep 1

hdapsd -s 9 -b

the -s 9 is sensitivity, smaller number is more sensitive, when the -d is not used then it will autodetect HDDs and the autodetection is working pretty good and it got both drives (the default script I think is working just with 1). The -b is for deamon working in background.

create in /etc/rc2.d/S20hdapsd symlink to the init.d folder and it should be working :)

Battery control

echo "tp_smapi" >> /etc/modules

echo "hdaps" >> /etc/modules

update-initramfs -u

modprobe -a tp_smapi hdaps

echo 30 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh

echo 80 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh

cat /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/*_charge_thresh

#force discharge

echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/force_discharge

#to keeep settings edit /etc/sysfs.conf

devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/start_charge_thresh = 50

devices/platform/smapi/BAT0/stop_charge_thresh = 80

To get nice KDE applet download kthinkbat

wget http://lepetitfou.dyndns.org/download/kthinkbat/src/kthinkbat-0.2.x/kthinkbat-0.2.9.tar.bz2

tar xzvf kthinkbat-0.2.9.tar.bz2

cd kthinkbat-0.2.9

./configure

make

make install

And now you can find it between another KDE applets just waiting to get added on panel.

To get text information get thinkpad-smapi.sh from ThinkWiki website:

wget http://www.thinkwiki.org/index.php?title=Code/thinkpad-smapi.sh&action=raw&ctype=application/octet-stream

Joystick

Now it should be working, just go to the control panel and look on the joystick. Now just tilt laptop and you can play tux racers... You have the accelerometer data available as joystick as well but try image how you could play games with that :) :) :)