Category:Docking Solutions

CS92 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Standard Docking Port

• Template:ThinkPad Expansion Unit Model 2
• Template:ThinkPad 700/720 Port Replicator

CS93 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Standard Docking Port

• SelectaBase Model I with optional SelectaBase PC Card Enabler or SelectaBase PC Card Enabler with Advanced EtherJet and with optional SelectaDock I or SelectaDock II or SelectaDock III
• ThinkPad Dock II (3546)
• ThinkPad Dock I (3545)
• ThinkPad Port Replicator Model 2
• ThinkPad Port Replicator Model 1
• ThinkPad 365X Port Replicator
• ThinkPad 365 Port Replicator
• ThinkPad MultiPort Replicator II
• ThinkPad Dock II (3546) Adapter Kit

CS94 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Standard Docking Port

• ThinkPad MultiPort Replicator

CS96 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Standard Docking Port

• ThinkPad UltraBase
• ThinkPad Enhanced Port Replicator
• ThinkPad 560 Port Replicator
• ThinkPad 380/385 Port Replicator
• ThinkPad Direct Dock Adapter

CS97 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Standard Docking Port

• SelectaBase 770 with optional SelectaBase PC Card Enabler or SelectaBase PC Card Enabler with Advanced EtherJet and with optional SelectaDock I or SelectaDock II or SelectaDock III

CS98 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Special Docking Port

• ThinkPad i Series Port Replicator

for Slim Docking Port

• SelectaBase 600 with optional SelectaBase PC Card Enabler or SelectaBase PC Card Enabler with Advanced EtherJet and with optional SelectaDock I or SelectaDock II or SelectaDock III

for Standard Docking Port

• ThinkPad Port Replicator with Advanced EtherJet

CS00 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Special Docking Port

• ThinkPad TransNote Port Replicator

for Slim Docking Port

• ThinkPad X4 UltraBase
• ThinkPad X4 Dock

for Standard Docking Port

• ThinkPad Dock II
• ThinkPad Dock
• ThinkPad Mini-Dock
• ThinkPad Port Replicator II
• ThinkPad Port Replicator
• ThinkPad X3 UltraBase
• ThinkPad X2 UltraBase

CS05 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Special Docking Port

• ThinkPad W700 Mini-Dock 2.0
• ThinkPad W700 Mini-Dock

for Slim Docking Port

• ThinkPad X6 UltraBase
• ThinkPad X6 Tablet UltraBase

for Standard Docking Port

• ThinkPad Advanced Dock
• ThinkPad Advanced Mini-Dock
• ThinkPad Essential Port Replicator

CS08 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Standard Docking Port

• ThinkPad X200 UltraBase

CS09 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Standard Docking Port

• ThinkPad UltraBase Series 3
• ThinkPad Mini-Dock Plus Series 3
• ThinkPad Mini-Dock Series 3
• ThinkPad Port Replicator Series 3
• ThinkPad CS09 Dock Adapter

CS13 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Standard Docking Port

• ThinkPad Workstation Dock
• ThinkPad Ultra Dock
• ThinkPad Pro Dock
• ThinkPad Basic Dock
• ThinkPad CS13 Dock Adapter

CS18 Docking Stations, Port Replicators and Adapters

for Standard Docking Port

• Template:ThinkPad Ultra Docking Station
• Template:ThinkPad Pro Docking Station
• Template:ThinkPad Basic Docking Station

Linux support

With recent distributions, docking and undocking should function out of the box. You can monitor this by running # udevadm monitor and when you dock or press the undock button you should see a flurry of events.

There are some issues though

No event on undock

There are various possible reasons for not getting ACPI docking or undocking events;

1. port-replicators have never supported ACPI docking events
2. newer docks (series 3 and newer from 2009 onwards), instead of generating ACPI dock events, generate key events which are only supported by the thinkpad-acpi driver since kernel 3.0. And no default action is taken on receiving these events.
3. prior to kernel 2.6.34 the ACPI Dock driver only registered the first logical Dock port, and subsequent dock ports where ignored. This effected the ThinkPad X40 with ThinkPad X4 Dock. For older kernels patches are available.

Filesystem corruption

Pressing the undock button will immediately unplug all dock attached devices. This can easily lead to problems, for instance if you have a USB or Ultrabay storage device attached to the dock and have a filesystem mounted RW, this can easily lead to filesystem corruption.

The solution for now is to always make sure any storage devices attached to the dock are unmounted BEFORE pressing the undock button.

External display issues

Docking or undocking will also not change the display configuration, which can lead to issues when your undock and your screensaver decided to put the unlock dialog on the secondary display, effectively requiring you to unlock the screensaver blind, before you can press Fn-F7 to restore your display setup to ThinkPad (LVDS) only. This last issue can be resolved by creating a custom udev rule and script as shown below. This script can also be used to take other actions on dock/undock such as automatically configuring your external display on dock.

create a file

KERNEL=="dock.0", ACTION=="change", RUN+="/usr/local/sbin/thinkpad-dock.sh"

Then create the file

#!/bin/sh
# wait for the dock state to change
sleep 0.5
DOCKED=$(cat /sys/devices/platform/dock.0/docked)
case "$DOCKED" in
	"0")
 #undocked event - lets remove all connected outputs apart from LVDS
 for output in $(/usr/bin/xrandr -d :0.0 --verbose|grep " connected"|grep -v LVDS|awk '{print $1}')
 do
 /usr/bin/xrandr -d :0.0 --output $output --off
 done
	;;
	"1")
	#docked event - sample will created extended desktop with DVI1 to the right of LVDS1
	#/usr/bin/xrandr -d :0.0 --output DVI1 --right-of LVDS1 --auto
	;;
esac
exit 0

And set it executable

chmod +x /usr/local/sbin/thinkpad-dock.sh

Part of this is based on information from a thread on the Ubuntu forums

Series 3 docks

There is a solution for the Series 3 docks: http://phihag.de/2012/thinkpad-docking.html

Dock scripts

Mostly for ACPI support related to docks, it can be found here.