Bug#388160: Bug #388160: acpi-support: please support ibm docking/undocking
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 07:00:03PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: I shall try issuing an eject request to the bay prior to the dock and see what heppens then. Investigations continue... Backporting bay from git HEAD in the kernel showed that it wasn't actually grabbing the device properly, something else was (the ide layer I think). I heard some important patches against libata went into 2.6.26, so I tried that - and it worked! undocking and redocking was fine. This time, I didn't have a /dev/hdc since apparently libata grabbed all the devices, my hdd and dvd were rebadged sda and sr0. I've heard some reports on linux-thinkpad that a HDD in the bay doesn't work properly with 2.6.26. I'll see if I can find out more. Based on this, so far, I'm thinking: eject request received kernel 2.6.26? honour it else: bay present? deny it else: honour it -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#388160: Bug #388160: acpi-support: please support ibm docking/undocking
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 09:55:08PM +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: H. If it does horrible things in those cases, I need something that absolutely only does stuff when it's safe. Don't want to break other people's systems! But if you can provide something that works only for the dock in absence of the bay, then I'd be very happy to include it. I'm taking a look at this right now with kernel 2.6.25-2-686. Things are looking good: booting attached to the dock, I can undock by prodding the /sys/devices/platform/dock.0/undock, redocking happens automatically. All attached devices: USB subsystem, ethernet, display, disappeared on remove and reappeared on dock, automatically. [ ideally my display would reconfigure itself to be smaller: my tft is 1280x1024, my lcd is 1024x768 and shows the upper corner of this size after undocking. But I don't think that's an acpi-support issue ] I tried inserting the bay after boot - the sys/bus/platform/bay.0 tree appeared, and present under that heirarchy correctly represents whether the bay is there or not. I haven't convinced the contents of the bay to appear yet (a CD-ROM device) --but nothing has broken. You need to include the event and shellscript that I attached to the LP bug (with all the commented out code stripped - it's no use) for the hotkey to work on my thinkpad (and probably all other thinkpads) I'm going to try booting with the bay and see what difference that makes, then check the kernel history to see whether there's been any fixes applie since 25 in the bay module that might be relevant. I'll prepare a patch with the shellscript/event tidied up for the most recent acpi-support package at the end of tonight, plus any stuff needed for bay support too. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#388160: Bug #388160: acpi-support: please support ibm docking/undocking
On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 06:10:02PM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: I'm going to try booting with the bay and see what difference that makes booting with the bay in meant I could see the DVD-ROM drive on boot. I tried mounting it, issuing an undock request to the dock driver and physically undocking. kern.log started complaining about I/O errors on hdc (the DVD-ROM drive). I then tried unmounting it and re-inserting a disc; at this point the machine hard locked. There's nothing in the kern.log from the hard lock. I shall try issuing an eject request to the bay prior to the dock and see what heppens then. Investigations continue... -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#388160: Bug #388160: acpi-support: please support ibm docking/undocking
On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:28:29PM +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: Have you found out anything more about this recently? I'd like to get a fix in before release time if it's not working out of the box yet. Even a hack will do if it just makes things work. Do the scripts you uploaded to the Ubuntu bug report work for you on Debian? Hello - I haven't looked at this for some time, but yes, the patches I posted at launchpad were developed on Debian against the debian package. I still have my trusty x40, the dock and an ultrabay. I will try and look at this again this week. The patches sort out docking and undocking in the absence of the bay, but they don't work with the bay (in fact I think horrible things happen if you try). At the very least bay-detection may be necessary, if not support. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#388160: Bug #388160: acpi-support: please support ibm docking/undocking
Hi Jon, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 09:28:29PM +0200, Bart Samwel wrote: Have you found out anything more about this recently? I'd like to get a fix in before release time if it's not working out of the box yet. Even a hack will do if it just makes things work. Do the scripts you uploaded to the Ubuntu bug report work for you on Debian? Hello - I haven't looked at this for some time, but yes, the patches I posted at launchpad were developed on Debian against the debian package. I still have my trusty x40, the dock and an ultrabay. I will try and look at this again this week. The patches sort out docking and undocking in the absence of the bay, but they don't work with the bay (in fact I think horrible things happen if you try). At the very least bay-detection may be necessary, if not support. H. If it does horrible things in those cases, I need something that absolutely only does stuff when it's safe. Don't want to break other people's systems! But if you can provide something that works only for the dock in absence of the bay, then I'd be very happy to include it. Cheers, Bart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Bug#388160: acpi-support: please support ibm docking/undocking
Hi there, I've picked up the maintainership of acpi-support a while ago, and I'm willing to look into implementing this (if only to get rid of the bug report thats muddying my view of the remaining real bugs ;-) ). Could you please provide me with, for docking and undocking: 1. the output of the command acpi_listen (which should be run while (un)docking) 2. what's logged in /var/log/syslog This will help me figure out what needs to be done. Cheers, Bart
Bug#388160: acpi-support: please support ibm docking/undocking
On Mon, 18 Sep 2006, Jon Dowland wrote: However, one thing that I used to do manually for acpid was manage dock/undock events sent by my thinkpad x40 when I use my ultrabase. These events used to be generated by the ibm_acpi module. I understand that having ibm_acpi manage the hotplugging is deprecated now. It's not clear to me how I can use my ultrabase with the new scheme, but I imagine the un/dock me please events are still carried over ACPI, which means events would still go in this package. Do you happen to know how these events are managed under the new scheme? Nope. Either way, is this the correct place to file a wishlist bug and patches? :) Yes. With patches. My main motivation to integrate acpi-support (which comes really from Ubuntu) has been to have correct suspend support for my laptop but I'm not an ACPI expert and I don't have the time to become one. So I have difficulties handling bug reports against this package. So bugreports *with* patches are definitely useful. :-) Cheers, -- Raphaël Hertzog Premier livre français sur Debian GNU/Linux : http://www.ouaza.com/livre/admin-debian/
Bug#388160: acpi-support: please support ibm docking/undocking
Package: acpi-support Version: 0.86-1 Severity: wishlist Hello there. I see acpi-support does what I have previously had to do manually in the past, thank you :) However, one thing that I used to do manually for acpid was manage dock/undock events sent by my thinkpad x40 when I use my ultrabase. These events used to be generated by the ibm_acpi module. I understand that having ibm_acpi manage the hotplugging is deprecated now. It's not clear to me how I can use my ultrabase with the new scheme, but I imagine the un/dock me please events are still carried over ACPI, which means events would still go in this package. Do you happen to know how these events are managed under the new scheme? Either way, is this the correct place to file a wishlist bug and patches? :) -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-2-686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Versions of packages acpi-support depends on: ii acpid1.0.4-5 Utilities for using ACPI power man ii dmidecode2.8-2 Dump Desktop Management Interface ii finger 0.17-10 user information lookup program ii hdparm 6.6-1 tune hard disk parameters for high ii laptop-detect0.12.1 attempt to detect a laptop ii libc62.3.6.ds1-4 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii lsb-base 3.1-10 Linux Standard Base 3.1 init scrip ii powermgmt-base 1.24Common utils and configs for power ii radeontool 1.5-3 utility to control ATI Radeon back ii toshset 1.71-1.1Access much of the Toshiba laptop ii vbetool 0.7-1+b1run real-mode video BIOS code to a ii xbase-clients1:7.1.ds-3 miscellaneous X clients Versions of packages acpi-support recommends: ii laptop-mode-tools 1.31-1 Scripts to spin down hard drive an -- no debconf information signature.asc Description: Digital signature
