[ltp] ACPI dock/undock events?

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Sun, 24 Feb 2008 20:09:29 -0300


On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, David Abrahams wrote:
> on Sun Feb 24 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh-AT-hmh.eng.br> wrote:
> > On Sun, 24 Feb 2008, David Abrahams wrote:
> >> support, I've been unable to find an ACPI event that will tell me that
> >> I've docked or undocked.  Is there such an event hiding somewhere?  I'd
> >
> > Yes.  Look at uevents, using udev.
> 
> Hey, thanks.  I just barely got the hang of ACPI -- can you give any
> more details?

udevmonitor will show you the events, and you will need to add scripts to
udev to connect to them.  Look for a udev tutorial through google :)

Actually, I think there is some info in thinkwiki about how to do it
already, but I am not sure.

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