ubuntu in an IBM x40 thinkpad, and a docking station

[Jaime Davila]

Thanks to everyone for their help so far. I've never done work detecting 
and managing acpi events, so I need to do a little reading.

Michael, I'll email you directly to avoid consuming ubuntu list 
bandwidth. I'm seeing some events, but not the docking. I'll email you 
what I see in  /var/log/acpid a little later. I see the function keys, 
but not the docking.

if people are interested in following this, email me and I'll move my 
messages back here.

Thanks to all,

Jaime




Michael Shulman wrote:
> On Wed, 08 Mar 2006 12:53:32 -0500, Jaime Davila <jdavila at hampshire.edu> wrote:
> 
>>If I boot up with the laptop on its docking base, the cd-rom gets
>>detected, and it works fine. No major surprise there.
>>
>>Now, If I boot up with the laptop outside the base, and then put it into
>>the base, the cd drive isn't detected. Trying to mount it just gives a
>>message about /dev/hdc not being there.
> 
> 
> I have exactly the same problem with my X41 thinkpad and X4 ultrabase
> dock.  (I was also the one who reported bug #30410).  Bug #18864 is (I
> think) just about support for the hotkey Fn-F9 (or whatever your key
> is) to dock/undock.  My laptop docks automatically when I plug it in,
> but I have Fn-F9 configured as described in 18864 to undock it, which
> I always do before I physically detach it; I don't know if it would
> work if I didn't.
> 
> I don't have the same problem with sleeping that you do, but I have
> some other ones.  E.g. if I put the machine to sleep and wake it up
> inside the base, my external USB mouse (attached to the base) does not
> work.  Whereas if I dock the laptop while it is awake, the mouse
> works, but my wired internet connection (also attached to the base) is
> sometimes flakey.  I haven't yet spent the time to isolate the
> problem, but it seems to me that support for the docking station is
> just kind of weird in general.  Thankfully none of the bugs that I
> experience are showstopping.
> 
> Mike
> 


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Jaime J. Davila
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Hampshire College
School of Cognitive Science
jdavila at hampshire dot edu
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