[ltp] Re: Undocking?

[Alex Deucher]

On 9/11/06, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
> "Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher@gmail.com> writes:
>
> > On 9/11/06, David Abrahams <dave@boost-consulting.com> wrote:
> >> 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.
> >
> > Does it work with ibm_acpi or are the two still mutually exclusive?
>
> I haven't yet had a chance to analyze what it's doing, but there is an
> option to enable "legacy docking station support," which I selected.
> On the other hand, /var/log/acpid doesn't seem to contain dock
> events.  So give me a couple days to get unburied before I start
> messing with that again and I'll try to give a more complete report.
>
> What I know is working that never worked before: I booted undocked,
> but when I plug in the machine the dock it goes into "press the undock
> button before removal" mode and the USB devices connected to the dock
> start working.  Haven't tried to undock yet.
>

Did you have ibm_acpi loaded?

Alex