12.10 and Lenovo SL400. >Keyboard Layout issues + HDD APS<

[Lucefudu]

Hello there!

Two questions:

1) How can I make my HDD APS (Hard Drive Disk Active Protection System) work again on Ubuntu 12.10? I have searched around, but only found dusty threads for Ubuntu 10.04 or prior...

Specs:
Ubuntu 12.10 (quantal) 32-bit
Kernel Linux 3.5.0-26-generic
GNOME 3.6.0

Intel® Core™2 Duo CPU P8600 @ 2.40GHz × 2

Lenovo ThinkPad SL400

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2) This question will be better answered by someone from Brazil, but here it goes:
In Brazil, we have two keyboard layouts if I'm not mistaken. When I switched over to Ubuntu, I wasn't able to configure my keyboard back to its correct layout, meaning that my "? and /" key isn't working.

Although this isn't a SL400, this is the exact layout of my keyboard (except for the Function Keys, but those are working fine).
And this right here is the keyboard layout that most closely relates to my keyboard. But I'm tired of having to Press "Alt Gr + q" for "/" and "Alt Gr + w" for "?". Can anyone tell me what is the name of my keyboard layout and how can I successfully change to it?

EDIT: QUESTION 2 WAS ANSWERED. HERE'S HOW TO FIX YOURS:

1) Open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T)
2) Type in sudo gedit /etc/default/keyboard
3) A text document will open. On the eight line, there should be a line saying XKBMODEL="pc105" or something similar. Change that to XKBMODEL="thinkpadz60"
4) Save the document and close it.
5) Hit Ctrl+Alt+F1
6) Enter your username (lower case, always) and password.
7) Type sudo setupcon and hit enter.
8) Type udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change and hit enter.
9) Hit Ctrl+Alt+F7 to go back to the GUI.
10) Reboot your computer and it is fixed.

~ Answered by: Mikhail.Inspired

Thank you all very much.

[matt_symes]

Hi

Welcome to the forums

For question 1, i'm pretty sure you will need to install and configure the package

hdapsd

matthew-S206:/home/matthew % apt-cache show hdapsd  
Package: hdapsd
<snip>
Description-en: HDAPS daemon for IBM/Lenovo ThinkPads and Apple iBooks/PowerBooks
 This is a disk protection user-space daemon. It monitors the acceleration
 values through the HDAPS or AMS interface and automatically initiates disk
 head parking if a fall or sliding of the laptop is detected.
 .
 It is recommended that you use this daemon with the hdaps module provided
 by tp-smapi rather the one in the kernel, as this will save you a bit
 power and will work on a wider range of ThinkPads.
<snip>
matthew-S206:/home/matthew %

Details of you laptop's make and model would not go amiss at this point.

I can't help with question 2 though.

Kind regards

[Mikhail.Inspired]

1) Open the terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T)
2) Type in

sudo gedit /etc/default/keyboard

3) A text document will open. On the eight line, there should be a line saying

XKBMODEL="pc105"

or something similar. Change that to

XKBMODEL="thinkpadz60"

4) Save the document and close it.
5) Hit Ctrl+Alt+F1
6) Enter your username (lower case, always) and password.
7) Type

sudo setupcon

and hit enter.
8) Type

udevadm trigger --subsystem-match=input --action=change

and hit enter.
9) Hit Ctrl+Alt+F7 to go back to the GUI.
10) Reboot the computer.

[Lucefudu]

Thank you for your reply. I tried the command hdapsd and then verified it with apt-cache show hdapsd.
But when I tried to test it by typing sudo find / and tilting my computer, nothing worked. Could you tell me how to configure it properly? Thank you!

PS: I forgot to leave the model: It's a ThinkPad SL400.

[matt_symes]

Hi

Thank you for your reply. I tried the command hdapsd and then verified it with apt-cache show hdapsd.
But when I tried to test it by typing sudo find / and tilting my computer, nothing worked. Could you tell me how to configure it properly? Thank you!

PS: I forgot to leave the model: It's a ThinkPad SL400.

It takes a bit more work than that to install and configure hd aps on a thinkpad.

You have already installed hdapsd so no need to install that.

From the terminal, copy and past these command into it.

1. Install tp-smapi-dkms to allow hdaspd to see the accelerometer via sysfs.

sudo apt-get install tp-smapi-dkms

2. Ensure the modules are loaded at startup next time you reboot.

echo -e "tp_smapi" | sudo tee -a /etc/modules

The -a switch after tee is very important in the line above as it appends to /etc/modules are not overwrites the file.

3. Load the tp_smapi module now.

sudo modprobe tp_smapi

4. Ensure the hdapsd daemon is running (It should run at start up).

sudo /etc/init.d/hdapsd start

5. Test hd aps. Reboot and test again.

Various configuration values can be set via editing the config file

/etc/default/hdapsd

That should be all you need to get dh aps running.

Kind regards