[ltp] hotkey and hotswap

[Alejandro Bonilla]

Hi,

This is what I use.

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~univ1377/c600.html

Download the hotswap util, it worked perfectly with me in a Dell, maybe 
in IBM it works as well?

- Alejandro

Winsley von Spee wrote:

>Hi All
>
>I just played around with the hotkey feature of the new ibm_acpi version
>0.10 and I was happy to found out that removing the ultrabay device does
>produce an acpi event. So I wrote a little script to automatically
>register and unregister the device. 
>I don't have the Ulrabay Battery so if you have one try what hotswap
>says to the battery. The man page says you don't need to register
>batterys or floppy drives cause they are no ide devices but the script
>doesn't hang on errors so it shouldn't be a problem. 
>
>To use the script say ./ultrabay unregister to unregister the currently
>inserted ide device and ./ultrabay register to register it again.
>
>The Script uses hotswap 0.4.0 and perhaps it's better/makes more sense
>to use the hotswaprc file (see man hotswaprc) but so or so you have to
>call hotswap with different arguments and write some limes for handling
>mounted devices either for registering or for unregistering the device. 
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>My Thinkpad r50p (183222G) produces "ibm/bay MSTR 00000003 00000000" if
>you unlock the bay and "ibm/bay MSTR 00000001 00000000" if you remove
>the device or lock the bay. So if you use the script to un-/register the
>device it will be called three times. First if you unlock the bay,
>second if you remove the device and last if you lock the bay again.
>You have to "echo enable > /proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey && echo 0xffff
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>>/proc/acpi/ibm/hotkey" in order to generate these acpi events. See man
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>acpid and the ibm_acpi readme for more details on handling acpi events.
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>Feedback is welcome. Obtain it from here ...
>http://jack-son.de/thinkpad/ultrabay
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>Is there a way to force umounting regardless of the state of the device
>(panic umounting or so) ???
>
>
>Greetz
>
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>P.s.: If someone has to smile about my English *g* feel free to correct
>me.
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