[ltp] Re: Undocking?

[David Abrahams]

Stefan Schmidt <stefan@sostec.de> writes:

> Hello.
>
> On Mon, 2006-08-21 at 22:33, Alex Deucher wrote:
>> On 8/21/06, Stefan Schmidt <stefan@sostec.de> wrote:> >
>> >You need the ibm-acpi driver. Should be inside the standard ubuntu
>> >kernel.
>> 
>> Alternatively, you can use the docking station acpi driver rather than
>> ibm_acpi to handle docking events on the fly (including PCI buses).
>> OLS paper:
>> http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2006/linuxsymposium_procv1.pdf
>> and the patches:
>> http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0604.1/1004.html
>
> Interesting. Hopefully this will be integrated into main.

I am using a 2.6.18-rc6 kernel right now and (still some issues, but)
the docking station support (which has been integrated) seems to work
really well.  It even recognizes the dock without having had it
connected at boot time.

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