Package: tp-smapi-dkms Version: 0.41-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I tried loading tp-smapi on my W550s - it doesn't work: root@lila:~# modprobe tp-smapi modprobe: ERROR: could not insert 'tp_smapi': No such device or address Apparently, tp-smapi doesn't work on Ivy Bridge or newer chipsets, according to various sources, including ThinkWiki: http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi#Model-specific_status I suggest that this be documented, along with the suggestion that the user consider an acpi-call based solution, such as TLP (Debian packages tlp and acpi-call-dkms). -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.6 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 4.8.12 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) Versions of packages tp-smapi-dkms depends on: ii dkms 2.2.0.3-2 tp-smapi-dkms recommends no packages. tp-smapi-dkms suggests no packages. -- no debconf information
