David Batson

With the thinkpad-acpi package notice the following: So in other words, instead of issueing the command: echo 0xffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey Issue this instead: echo 0xffffffff > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey Try the echo commands to see what works. When you get it working, you can add lines to the /etc/modprobe.conf file to make the changes stick after a reboot. See also the following from the IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver README file. Additionally, there is a lot of good information at http://www.thinkwiki.org. There you can search on "hotkeys" and "acpi" to find more on this subject.

Yeah, me too! I was trying to improve my fonts and uninstalled 3 font libraries, libfreetype6, libcairo2, & libXft. I thought I had installed their replacements with an RPM I created, but it turns out that the fonts were installed to the wrong directory. When I rebooted I could only get the console screen. I had to reinstall the fonts I had just removed by using my Free DVD (I had no internet connection available in Mandriva at the time). The DVD was not currently set up as a repository, so I had to figure that out too.

I have a ThinkPad T42 and am using 2007.1, but the procedures I used will likely help you. See my thread below. Enabling Hardware hotkeys on a ThinkPad T42