Re: docking stations
On Wed, 2002-06-19 at 08:29, Charles Mauch wrote:
> Is there a way of detecting a docking station change? (removal, docked,
> etc?)
>
> I'm currently using some shell scripts to restart the pcmcia services
> (for the extra 2 pcmcia ports), restart hotplug (to see the extra usb
> devices), swap out X config's, restart X, when I dock/undock the laptop.
>
> I've been using those scripts for about a year and a half, and was
> wondering if anything had changed. It would be nice to have linux
> auto-adjust my hardware settings when the docking status changes. I've
> read on a few sites that ACPI supports this, but they don't say much
> beyond the fact that it's supported.
>
> Has anyone set this kind of stuff up?
I used to do this with 'whereami' some time ago when I had a laptop with
a docking station. I don't have a docking station any longer, however,
so things might have changed.
I used an "lspci || grep" approach to detect the docking station.
Regards,
Andrew.
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