From: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [ltp] [RFC] thinkpad-acpi: dock and bay drivers: any users left? Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 00:29:40 -0300 > On Mon, 04 May 2009, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: >> What doesn't work is that the pre-eject switch (the thing that pops out >> the physical eject tab) doesn't seem to be hooked into ACPI. There are >> udev events generated by the switch, but nothing in F11 appears to be >> hooked to them. > > Yeah, the usual problem :( > >> > I am also interested into getting ACPI dock working perfectly on thinkpads >> > so that's a secondary objective of these questions: what should be improved >> > on ACPI dock? There is already one thing on my list: add an attribute that >> > gives the user an idea of WHAT dock/bay a dock.* device represents... >> >> I'm willing to try out various things to get this pre-eject to work >> perfectly. I do have a 90% solution, which involves a udev action and >> script modelled on the hotswap script in the ThinkPad Wiki, but I was >> hoping that there would be a better way. > > Well, there is HAL. I don't know whether it would do the right thing or not > if you make it understand that uevent as a eject request. I know next-to-nothing about HAL. If you tell me the incantation (or where to find it), I'll try and see whether it does anything useful. [...] peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your production scanning environment may not be a perfect world - but thanks to Kodak, there's a perfect scanner to get the job done! With the NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanner you'll get full speed at 300 dpi even with all image processing features enabled. http://p.sf.net/sfu/kodak-com _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
