Re: Re: ibm-acpi-0.1

[Paul Ionescu <i_p_a_u_l-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:44:11 +0200, Erik Tews wrote:
> Am Mi, den 11.08.2004 schrieb Paul Ionescu um 3:01:
>> Method to soft eject/insert the device in UltraBay, and capture the event
>> generated by the pull-off device-from-bay  button.
> 
> This would be really fine, I don't want to reboot everytime I switch
> between cd-writer and extra battery.

Hi Erik,

Even now, without proper ACPI support, you don't have to reboot your
thinkpad to do that.
If you are using an ACPI enabled kernel, then you can just 
"idectl 1 off"
pull out your cdrom
insert your battery
use the battery
eject the battery
insert the cdrom
"idectl 1 on" or "idectl 1 rescan"
use the cdrom


however the DMA on the cdrom will not work because of this bug:
 http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2261

Also, you can use hotplug utility instead of idectl.

Good luck,
Paul



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