[ltp] Re: What are people using for Dock/Undocking scripts for their X60/61's?

Thomas Hood linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:03:32 +0100


Theodore Ts'o wrote in July 2008:
> I'm curious what people have been using for docking/undocking scripts
> for their X60/61 laptops.   I've found the dockutils at:
>
>     http://sourceforge.net/projects/dockutils
>
> to be useful as a starting point, although it hasn't been updated in two
> years and I had to make some changes to support the X61 and because it
> was relying on hal properties that no longer exist.  I also had to add
> an explicit "hdparm -Y" to spin down the disk before undocking it.
>   

I checked this link and it led to http://en.opensuse.org/Dockutils
which, as you say, hasn't been updated since 2007.

Have you found something better in the meantime?
-- 
Thomas Hood