Ibm hard drive active protection sensor problem

Question

i have a IBM thinkpad t41, i dun't know why it come out this message "ibm hard drive active protection sensor ", after that it come out ask me to type a password to log in. i never set password at notebook hard drive. pls help me~~urgent!! thanks!!

Answer 1

I think you're right, that does not read clearly.  Furthermore, I believe it may contain an error or two.
If you're installing tp_smapi from AUR (as the page implies), the PKGBUILD should already install the module to the correct location, meaning the build instructions ('make install HDAPS=1'), are redundant.
I'd simply use 'makepkg' and  'pacman -U [...]', as usual.
To load the module correctly, I have:
/etc/rc.local:
modprobe tp_smapi
modprobe thinkpad_ec
insmod /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/extra/hdaps.ko
/etc/rc.conf:
MODULES=([...] !thinkpad_ec !tp_smapi !hdaps [...])
There is probably a cleaner way to do this, though the method described in the wiki results in several errors regarding "Unknown symbol" upon loading the module.  Could anyone confirm or improve upon the above instructions, so that the tp_smapi section could be brought up-to-date?
Last edited by chpln (2009-12-11 00:41:34)