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Subject: [ltp] Re: ACPI dock/undock events?
From: David Abrahams <dave () boost-consulting ! com>
Date: 2008-04-29 20:26:14
Message-ID: 87r6co1k7t.fsf () mcbain ! luannocracy ! com
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on Mon Apr 28 2008, David Abrahams <dave-AT-boost-consulting.com> wrote:
> First, thank you both for responding, and I'm sorry that it's taken me
> so long to follow up on this. Second, this isn't working for me with
> Ubuntu Hardy (kernel 2.6.24-16-generic). udev does appear to be working
> in general; events show up in its log. However, even when install the
> above rules and I set the logging level to "debug" in udev.conf, nothing
> shows up when I press the undock button. The only thing I /do/ notice
> is lines like this in /var/log/syslog:
>
> Apr 28 15:11:49 mcbain kernel: [ 76.886368] ACPI: \_SB_.GDCK - undocking
> Apr 28 15:25:47 mcbain kernel: [ 52.232789] ACPI: \_SB_.GDCK - docking
> A
>
> which appears to mean that ACPI knows about the docking events. Is
> there any way to hook these?
I eventually got this to work by using
http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_7.04_(Feisty_Fawn)_on_a_ThinkPad_X40#Installation_Notes_for_Ubuntu_8.04_Tribe_1_.28Hardy_Heron.29_by_dmoerner
as a model. Thanks for setting me on the right path!
--
Dave Abrahams
Boost Consulting
http://boost-consulting.com
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