Comment 43 for bug 133636

Sorry, I know this bug has had a lot of updates already, but it ended up leading me in the wrong direction, so I thought I'd give a comment:
On my Z61p, the module wouldn't load either and I patched it with my laptop ID before I even found this page, but even after loading, the module wasn't reporting any sensor info.
It's only later that I found/read that the built-in module in the kernel doesn't actually work for all thinkpads. On mine, I ended up installing tp_smapi-0.33 from http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi with
make load HDAPS=1.
Only after that module was loaded, did I get hdaps-gl to show any tilting