Thanks everybody for the contributions, it really was a morning surprise :) I'll try to combine Kees' cycle with dmandell's level checking in the evening, as i don't have my T42 with me currently. I've been also thinking how this could be developed to look like an official fix, do you have any ideas regarding that? I could create a .deb file that installs the script in /etc/init.d and starts it during boot, but before going that far we should see if the script works on other Thinkpads, shouldn't we? Also, what are your opinions about a shell script doing this job (that's the only "programming" language i have experience with)? Would an application written in Python or C work better?
Thanks everybody for the contributions, it really was a morning surprise :) I'll try to combine Kees' cycle with dmandell's level checking in the evening, as i don't have my T42 with me currently. I've been also thinking how this could be developed to look like an official fix, do you have any ideas regarding that? I could create a .deb file that installs the script in /etc/init.d and starts it during boot, but before going that far we should see if the script works on other Thinkpads, shouldn't we? Also, what are your opinions about a shell script doing this job (that's the only "programming" language i have experience with)? Would an application written in Python or C work better?