ACPIDOCK(4)

💻 ACPIDOCK(4) — the Kernel Interfaces Manual page bestie 💻

okay so this is the acpidock man page from the Kernel Interfaces Manual — yes, that's the manual name, and honestly it's giving "the system itself is talking to you" energy 🌈

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✨ NAME ✨

acpidock — ACPI docking station, but make it iconic 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

acpidock* at acpi?

that's the whole vibe check, no cap 🫶

💅 DESCRIPTION 💅

The acpidock driver supports ACPI docking stations. Docking stations are units that, for example, laptops may attach to in order to expose a number of additional hardware devices — like, your laptop literally clips in and suddenly has more stuff, main character energy 🔥

The acpidock driver handles docking and undocking machines to gracefully detach external devices. Gracefully! Not me yanking cables 💀

When docking and undocking, an event is passed to the driver which is then reacted upon. For undocking, this event is usually triggered by pressing a button on the docking station or using a special keyboard combination; for docking, the machine usually just has to be inserted. so you just… slide it in, and it knows ✨

The acpidock driver sets up a sensor that indicates docking state that can be used with sensorsd(8) to perform events when docking or undocking. so your lil sensor bestie keeps everyone informed 💖

🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

• acpi(4)
• intro(4)
• sensorsd(8)

go read those too, iykyk 👑

🎀 HISTORY 🎀

The acpidock driver first appeared in OpenBSD 4.1. vintage. lowkey a classic 🦋

⭐ AUTHORS ⭐

The acpidock driver was written by Michael Knudsen <mk@openbsd.org> — thank you for your service king 🫶👑

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ngl there are no flags, no exit statuses, no environment variables, and no bugs to warn you about here — this page is short and sweet and we ate regardless 💅

okay that's the whole page, bestie — go dock something dramatic ✨

this glorious little rewrite lives in the Debian edition of the manual, dated July 16, 2013 — mwah 💜