--- man/tpb.1.orig 2005-07-25 08:40:53 UTC +++ man/tpb.1 @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ tpb \- program to use the IBM ThinkPad ( With TPB it is possible to bind a program to the ThinkPad, Mail, Home and Search button. TPB can also run a callback program on each state change with the changed state and the new state as options. So it is possible to trigger several actions on different events. -TPB has a on-screen display (OSD) to show volume, mute, brightness and some other informations. +TPB has an on-screen display (OSD) to show volume, mute, brightness and some other informations. Furthermore TPB supports a software mixer, as the R series ThinkPads have no hardware mixer to change the volume. .SH OPTIONS .TP 8 @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ The priority of the configuration option builtin defaults .TP \(bu -configuration in /etc/tpbrc +configuration in %%PREFIX%%/etc/tpbrc .TP \(bu configuration in $HOME/.tpbrc @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ Keywords are: .TP 8 .B NVRAM Should define the nvram device from where the information about the key states -is read. Default is to try /dev/nvram, followed by /dev/misc/nvram. +is read. Default is to try /dev/nvram. .TP 8 .B POLLTIME Defines the delay between polls in microseconds. @@ -332,14 +332,18 @@ Defines the alignment of the osd. Possible values are left, center and right. Default is left. .SH "NOTES" -Requires NVRAM device /dev/nvram. +Requires NVRAM device /dev/nvram on Linux. This must be enabled in your kernel. Although the device file must exist. The device file could be created with \'mknod /dev/nvram c 10 144\' +On FreeBSD you have to load the acpi_ibm(4) driver prior to using TPB. +If ACPI and in turn acpi_ibm(4) is not available, nvram(4) and apm(4) +are being used. + This program was developed on a Thinkpad Model T21. .SH EXAMPLE -tpb \-\-osd=off \-\-verbose \-\-thinkpad="xterm \-T ntpctl \-e ntpctl" +tpb \-\-osd=off \-\-verbose \-\-thinkpad="%%LOCALBASE%%/bin/xterm" .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright 2002-2005, Markus Braun .PP