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

[Daniel Castro]

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2009/3/5 Thomas Hood <jdthood@gmail.com>

> 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?

I recently did this tutorial for t61 and t61p. Might help...
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1076486

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<div class=3D"gmail_quote">2009/3/5 Thomas Hood <span dir=3D"ltr">&lt;<a hr=
ef=3D"mailto:jdthood@gmail.com">jdthood@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span><br><blockq=
uote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 20=
4); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Theodore Ts&#39;o wrote in July 2008:<br>
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204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I&#39;m curious what people have been using for docking/undocking scripts<b=
r>
for their X60/61 laptops. =A0 I&#39;ve found the dockutils at:<br>
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 =A0 =A0<a href=3D"http://sourceforge.net/projects/dockutils" target=3D"_bl=
ank">http://sourceforge.net/projects/dockutils</a><br>
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to be useful as a starting point, although it hasn&#39;t been updated in tw=
o<br>
years and I had to make some changes to support the X61 and because it<br>
was relying on hal properties that no longer exist. =A0I also had to add<br=
>
an explicit &quot;hdparm -Y&quot; to spin down the disk before undocking it=
.<br>
 =A0<br>
</blockquote>
<br>
I checked this link and it led to <a href=3D"http://en.opensuse.org/Dockuti=
ls" target=3D"_blank">http://en.opensuse.org/Dockutils</a><br>
which, as you say, hasn&#39;t been updated since 2007.<br>
<br>
Have you found something better in the meantime?</blockquote><div>I recentl=
y did this tutorial for t61 and t61p. Might help...<br><a href=3D"http://ub=
untuforums.org/showthread.php?t=3D1076486">http://ubuntuforums.org/showthre=
ad.php?t=3D1076486</a><br>
</div><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"border-left: 1px solid rgb=
(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br>
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