[ltp] Re: Undocking?

Alex Deucher linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 23 Aug 2006 09:32:18 -0400


On 8/23/06, Stefan Schmidt <stefan@sostec.de> wrote:
> Hello.
>
> On Tue, 2006-08-22 at 19:24, David Abrahams wrote:
> > Stefan Schmidt <stefan@sostec.de> writes:
> >
> > > For a longer description of this feature please refer to the ibm-acpi
> > > README, docking section.
> > >
> > > http://ibm-acpi.sourceforge.net/README
> >
> > Already did.  Ooo, but I just noticed it won't respond unless it was
> > booted in the dock :(.
>
> Yes, imb-acpi is limited. Perhaps you should wait until the generic
> dock patches are in main. This should makes things in this area
> easier. Especially the paper from OLS Alex mentioned looks
> interesting.

They may already be in andrew's tree or even a recent git rc kernel.
I really haven't tracked them much since OLS.  If you are interested,
you should email LKML or the patch's author.

Alex

>
> > I guess I might have to build some kind of dock/undock widget to
> > put in a gnome panel.
>
> Would be cool.
>
> regards
> Stefan Schmidt
>
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