Hi, When I docked my laptop, and then booted my OS, then I went into BIOS setup, there I found one option saying he laptop is docked. I am just wondering how to read this information from BIOS. I am using Dell Latitude C610 laptop. Can anyone help me out or guide me how to read/access BIOS data? I have got one more doubt. Say when my laptop is undocked and it is up and running, then if I dock it, will the BIOS data be updated runtime? Or is it only at boot time that it can read the docking status? There is no much information I can find on the net on this docking topic in linux. If there is any useful information, somebody please tell me. Thanks -----Original Message----- From: Austad, Jay [mailto:JAustad at temgweb.com] Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 1:16 PM To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' Subject: RE: [TCLUG] To check whether Laptop is Docked/UnDocked Hey! I was just about to post this same question. I have a Dell c640 with the same issue. And, I have a USB mouse when I'm docked also, it would be nice if this just worked. I'm running Mandrake 9.1. > -----Original Message----- > From: Sadanapalli, Pradeep Kumar (MED, TCS) > [mailto:Pradeep.Sadanapalli at med.ge.com] > Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 10:56 AM > To: 'tclug-list at mn-linux.org' > Subject: [TCLUG] To check whether Laptop is Docked/UnDocked > > > I am running RedHat 8.0 on my Dell Latitude C610 laptop. > I am having Dell Latitude C/Port II docking station. I have an extra > monitor, > Dell Optiplex GX260. When I dock my laptop, monitor > configuration should > be changed to > reflect the GX260 monitor . > > When my laptop is up and running, I docked it. Now my display > is on the > extra GX260 monitor, but not properly configured. > I believe then, this is termed as hot-docking, am I right friends? > So is it possible to detect as and when the laptop is docked/undocked > and thus, change the monitor configuration accordingly? > Where to look for in /proc , if in case the /proc is the directory to > look for? > In Linux, is there any software/module that dynamically > auto-detects and > configures the monitor? > > Please help me out in this matter. Any ideas are greatly appreciated. > > Thanks > Pradeep > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list