Lenovo SL500 && Suse 11.1: Problems with buttons

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Hello Community, I am using Suse 11.1 (KDE) on my Lenovo SL500.
Quite all (hardware) features of this Notebook aren’t supported:
The Volume Buttons, the brightness keys and also the fingerprint reader are not supported, what a pity.
Can anybody help me? I found no solution in the internet yet
:frowning:
thank you in advance!!!

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There is a thread about this problem in the Hardware Forum:
"How do I build/make custom driver into kernel? "
(Link: How do I build/make custom driver into kernel? - openSUSE Forums )

I have a Thinkpad SL300 with opensuse 11.1 and the described solution works for me: brightness can be changed, sound buttons are working.

  1. Goto Software.openSUSE.org and search for “lenovo”.
  2. Download the source RPM packages “lenovo-sl-laptop-1-2.6.src.rpm” and “lenovo-options-1-1.2.src.rpm”
  3. Install tool “rpmbuild”, gcc compiler and kernel sources if not already done.
  4. Compile each package with “rpmbuild --rebuild *.src.rpm”. The packages are now in directory /usr/src/packages/RPMS/i586.
  5. Install them as root with “rpm -Uvh *.rpm”
  6. Start yast and go to YaST->System->“Editor for /etc/sysconfig” and search “MODULES_LOADED_ON_BOOT”.
    There you have to add “lenovo-sl-laptop”. Finally reboot the computer.

Cheers/Grüße
Fabian

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Hi
There is also an updated module, so there should be a new version
available soon lenovo-sl-laptop-2-1.1 it’s currently scheduled to build.

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Which improvements are in lenovo-sl-laptop-2-1.1,
or is there a place where can I read its update history ?

Thanks
Fabian

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Interesting versioning scheme.

Source states:

#define LENSL_LAPTOP_VERSION "**0.02**"

Or is there another source than the git repo at

http://github.com/tetromino/lenovo-sl-laptop/tree/master?

P.S.

Wyh rebuilding the src.rpm when there are ready made kmp packages available (in the same repo)?

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P.S.

Wyh rebuilding the src.rpm when there are ready made kmp packages available (in the same repo)?

I had to compile the Source RPMs because rpm refused to install the binary package lenovo-sl-laptop due to my different/older kernel version (2.6.27.25).

Ok, since my online-update yesterday I also have 2.6.27.29 which would have been necessary to directly install the binary RPMs. :\

Fabian