X210 ThinkVantage button

[L29Ah]

Do you have it working? Do you have it working in GNU/Linux? How do i make it work? It doesn't produce any ACPI events or keycodes on my system.

[Thinkpad4by3]

I don't know about you, but I don't think I've ever actually used that button for anything. Likely one of those wierd deep hardware things like the thinklight and how it can be controlled by windows through some nasty BIOS calls and custom assembly code.

[L29Ah]

I don't know about you, but I don't think I've ever actually used that button for anything. Likely one of those wierd deep hardware things like the thinklight and how it can be controlled by windows through some nasty BIOS calls and custom assembly code.

It's a handy key for enabling the screen locker for instance.
In Linux on a Lenovo Thinkpad the thinklight can be controlled just like any other led via sysfs interface, and the key is interpreted as an ACPI event just like the Power key.

[vladisslav2011]

I'll try to patch the EC firmware to enable this button (and some FN combinations too), but I have to figure out it's scan position first. To do so I have to find EC's UART testpads on a motherboard or solder 2 very thin wires directly to EC pins or test nets from keyboard connector to ec pins and figure keyboard pin-to-key mapping. JTAG would not help here as enabling it disables keyboard interface. EC cmd 0xbf (read EC memory byte, arguments: 3 byte offset) was expected to help doing so, but, for some unknown reason, it does not work at all. The EC simply does not put anything into output register. Maybe I should dig into disassembly a bit deeper...
Update:
Thinkvantage button is usable now.
It is even possible to redefine every key and even add more FN+key combinations. Have a look here: viewtopic.php?f=80&t=128267&p=837219#p837219