a wanderer in transit » APS http://www.li-ping.com/transit Thu, 02 Jun 2011 12:00:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 Kernel Cleaning http://www.li-ping.com/transit/2009/10/06/kernel-cleaning/ http://www.li-ping.com/transit/2009/10/06/kernel-cleaning/#comments Tue, 06 Oct 2009 15:43:17 +0000 ping http://www.li-ping.com/transit/?p=53 So after a couple of rounds of kernel updates on my Ubuntu install, a little housekeeping was in order. To remove the older kernel versions, uninstall linux-image-x.x.xx (just “removal”) from Synaptic Package Manager. Probably a good idea to keep the last version before the current one.

If you’re multibooting, you may need to tweak Grub / System > Administrator > StartUp-Manager (tutorial).

As a side effect of the kernel cleaning, I had to rebuild the tp_smapi / hdaps modules for the updated kernel. Good tutorial here worked for my X60. I took the chance to also install the gnome-hdaps-applet (instructions) to get a visual indicator of the APS in action. Yay!

]]> http://www.li-ping.com/transit/2009/10/06/kernel-cleaning/feed/ 0 Jaunty Adventures – Part 2: Smackaroo http://www.li-ping.com/transit/2009/07/04/jaunty-adventures-%e2%80%93-part-2-smackaroo/ http://www.li-ping.com/transit/2009/07/04/jaunty-adventures-%e2%80%93-part-2-smackaroo/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:30:33 +0000 ping http://www.li-ping.com/transit/?p=37 Still no luck with getting the trackpoint settings to stick after a suspend. While researching a fix for the trackpoint, I got distracted trying to get APS to work.

APS is sort of a harddisk shock protector available in recent models Thinkpads. This post worked great for me (kernel 2.6.28) to get the hdaps module running. For the hdapsd daemon, I did have to edit /etc/default/hdapsd to turn on FORCEENABLE. YMMV.

I had my 15 minutes of fun smacking my new Smackpad around. Now back to those damn trackpoint settings…

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