[ltp] T60 Advanced Mini Dock usb problem

[Aidan Marks]

sure... i'm wondering though if we are missing some sort of support for
the undock button on the minidock, since there is some communication
going on with the dock and windows/lenovo software.  If you are on
windows, you push the button, it starts flashing, then once windows has
done some magic the lock LED on the dock goes away and you are "safe" to
undock. if I do this, it sits there flashing and eventually times out
and stays in lock "don't eject me" mode.

I understand it could be a h/w or f/w bug, but it doesn't work at all
for me, where as at least there is something working on windows.

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Mon, 02 Jul 2007, Aidan Marks wrote:
>> to the dock it works again.  However all follow the lenovo
>> recommendation of pressing the button on the mini dock to start the
>> undock process.  Which brings me to what does this button really do, and
> 
> If you are undocking without first telling the dock to go offline (I don't
> mean pressing any buttons, although that *might* do it. I mean calling the
> ACPI eject handlers for the dock somehow), then you could well be damaging
> your hardware, and it wouldn't be any sort of surprise if it doesn't work
> exactly right, even if it is not damaged.
> 
> That said, if Windows users have intermitent problems, while still doing the
> proper undock procedure, then it is either a hardware bug, or a firmware
> bug.
>