ACPI_DOCK(4)

💖 ACPI_DOCK — the laptop docking station driver bestie 💖

okay so this is acpi_dock(4), and it lives in the Kernel Interfaces Manual section, which is honestly giving main character energy for a driver that just wants your dock to work. sit down, grab a strawberry 🍓, and let's get into it.

✨ NAME ✨

acpi_dock — the Laptop Docking Station device driver 🎀 like, that's literally her whole job and she does it beautifully.

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

so there's two ways to get her in the building, and you gotta pick one:

Option 1 — compile her straight into the kernel. no cap, this is the committed-relationship route. drop these lines into your kernel configuration file:

device acpi_dock

Option 2 — load her as a module at boot time. lowkey the casual route, still slays. put this line in loader.conf(5):

acpi_dock_load="YES"

that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 💅

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

the acpi_dock driver provides support for laptop docking stations. yes that's the entire description, she's a woman of few words and all of them are iconic. plug the laptop in, dock goes brrr, everybody's happy. periodt. ✨

🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

• acpi(4)

go read that one too, iykyk. the whole acpi family is a package deal bestie. 💜

🌈 HISTORY 🌈

the acpi_dock device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 7.0. so she's been around a minute — an OG, a legend, a founding member of the girl group. not me getting emotional about a kernel module 😭

👑 AUTHORS 👑

the acpi_dock device driver was written by Mitsuru IWASAKI <iwasaki@FreeBSD.org>. absolute legend behavior, we stan. 🫶

and that's the whole page bestie!! this version came to you from the Debian crew, dated May 20, 2006 — yeah she's vintage, and vintage is a lifestyle. 💅✨ mwah, go dock something. 🎀🦋