ubuntu in an IBM x40 thinkpad, and a docking station

[Jaime Davila]

I'm slowly getting around to posting answers to some of the questions I 
posted earlier, in case anyone runs into the same issues.

With my x40 thinkpad, sleeping on the base wasn't working because of 
issues with the cdrom drive. To solve the issue I added
hotswap -c 1 unregister-ide
at the beginning of the sleep.sh script, and then
hotswap -c 1 rescan-ide
at the end of sleep.sh, so it gets rescanned when waking up.

After installing hsf drivers for my winmodem, I have to take those out 
too when sleeping, or it just doesn't go to sleep. So I've added
rmmod hsfusbcd2
rmmod hsfmc97sis
rmmod hsfmc97ati
rmmod hsfmc97ali
rmmod hsfmc97via
rmmod hsfmc97ich
rmmod hsfpcibasic2
rmmod hsfserial
rmmod hsfengine
rmmod hsfosspec
rmmod hsfsoar

at the beginning, and

modprobe hsfusbcd2
modprobe hsfmc97sis
modprobe hsfmc97ati
modprobe hsfmc97ali
modprobe hsfmc97via
modprobe hsfmc97ich
modprobe hsfpcibasic2
modprobe hsfserial
modprobe hsfengine
modprobe hsfosspec
modprobe hsfsoar

at the end.

Also, it seems like for docking events to be detected by acpi, the 
laptop has to be booted up on the base.

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
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Hampshire College
School of Cognitive Science
jdavila at hampshire dot edu
http://helios.hampshire.edu/jdavila
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