Sony Vaio VGN SZ483NC warm docking issues

[Kevin Oberman]

> Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2008 23:38:34 -0800 (PST)
> From: Vishwanathan S V N <vishketan at yahoo.com>
> Sender: owner-freebsd-acpi at freebsd.org
> 
> Hi!
> 
> It seems that acpi_dock driver is not loaded at boot time.
> Please add following line into /boot/loader.conf and reboot.
> ----
> acpi_dock_load="YES"
> ---
> 
> I am using a live DVD so cannot use the /boot/loader.conf option but
> instead did a kldload acpi_dock.
> 
> I can undock successfully but I still have problems with redocking the
> machine :(
> 
> Updated dmesg 
> 
> http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~vishy/FreeBSD/dmesg1.txt
> 
> and cat /var/log/messages 
> 
> http://users.rsise.anu.edu.au/~vishy/FreeBSD/messages.txt
> 
> 
> Please let me know if you need any further information.
> 
> vishy
> 
> ps: I have similar issues with the latest 2.6.24 Linux kernels. I can
> undock successfully once but the machine never redocks properly.

kldload won't do the trick. If you can't put it in loader.conf (and you
can't), you need to load the module at the loader "OK" prompt (load
/kernel/acpi_dock.ko) and then "boot".
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