Re: [TCLUG:6226] Laptop docked/undocked

[lamfada@lugh.net]

My work laptop is Win95, and it does not do that, but I think its not a bad idea - perhaps a LILO option would work best? Just a thought, I am not certain how that would work.

On the ping issue, I think that would be a "bad thing"(tm), for example if you use a PCMCIA NIC outiside of the docking station & the same NIC or a docking station based NIC.  This would require you to remember to take it out, or it would assume that if you were connected you were docked.  I think that your laptop should have something like a BIOS setting, or extra ports, or something.  Also, the video might just be a passthrough, I know that this ThinkPad docking station does that.  In that case, the only thing you should need is the Monitor settings.  You are allowed to have more than one Monitor section in XF86Config.  I am not sure how you choose which one to use, I am assuming it is a commandline option or something like that.

If you use startx, you could wrap it in startx-docked and startx-undocked to set the Monitor settings, or if you use [xkg]dm, you could set it up in the rc scripts, rc.[runlevel for X] to check & set the options.  I don't have time right now to check, but that should hopefully help you get started.  I will check on the X stuff later & update.  Also, you might want to check Accelerated X or something like that to see if they have support for this.

Good Luck.
-Chris

On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 09:53:48 +0000 (/etc/localtime), Eric Edgar <edga0010@tc.umn.edu> wrote:
>As far as checking to see if it is docked undocled .. If your docking
>station is connected to the network see if you can ping hosts on startup
>.. and then go from there.
>
>Or you might have a little menu come up and you just choose one that you
>want ... linuxconf works like that and thats how windows (ick) does it
>too.
>
>Just some ideas
>
>Eric
>
>
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