Re: [repost] acpi on gentoo

[Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@linux.intel.com>]

Nigel wrote:
> response inline
>
> Luming Yu said on 11/3/2007 3:12 PM:
>> On 3/11/07, Nigel <nigels@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Trying again to see if anyone had any other ideas.
>>>
>>> In addition:
>>> The acpid daemon is running.
>>> The same machine when booted into windows will automatically go to
>>> powersave mode when the power cable is removed.
>>>
>>
>> what condition is your battery in? It makes sense if battery power is 
>> very low.
>   Battery #1     : present
>     Remaining capacity : 47822 mWh, 100.0%
>     Design capacity    : 50760 mWh
>     Last full capacity : 47822 mWh, 94.21% of design capacity
> (similar output was included in the original post)
>
> Regardless of battery condition should I not still get an event for 
> removing and reinserting the power cable? (Obviously waiting for a 
> minute or two in-between )
>
>> If battery is still full, then it sounds like a bug.  You need to test
>> the latest base kernel before entering a acpi bug into
>> bugzilla.kernel.org.
>
> It works just fine on 2.6.19-r5 (gentoo)
> Whilst is *may* have been a bug, the issue should no longer exist on a 
> newer kernel.
>
>>
>>> One interesting though, if I do : modprobe button
>>> then every 30 seconds or so I get:
>>> received event "battery BAT1 00000080 00000001"
>>>
>>> Even when i do rmmod button I still keep getting these events.
>>> The only way to go back to "normal" behaviour is to reboot.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions as to what might be my problem here ?
>>>
>> I guess your battery power level is low.
>
> Nope, that's not it.
> Don't really get your logic either. *Only* when a certain module is 
> loaded and after that *only* a reboot stops these messages means that 
> the battery is low?
>
>> </
>>
>
> So, I take it that my choice is limited to using the newer kernel ?
> I would normally not hesitate to use the newer kernel but my 
> employer's vpn client is limited to 2.6.17
>
> Nigel.
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2.6.19-rc5 has EC driver almost re-written (drivers/acpi/ec.c). Please 
check if putting it into 2.6.17 works/helps. You may also try to put an 
2.6.20/21-rc version of the same file... It has even more changes.


Regards,
    Alex.