From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Goulven Guillard Subject: Re: ACPI problem in Kernel 2.6.20 Date: Wed, 09 May 2007 17:39:18 +0200 Message-ID: <4641EB26.40200@free.fr> References: <11b141710705090650l482dff24r529a617563e17663@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: lecotegougdelaforce@free.fr Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ires.in2p3.fr ([193.48.86.184]:39122 "EHLO IReS.in2p3.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755742AbXEIPrr (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 May 2007 11:47:47 -0400 In-Reply-To: <11b141710705090650l482dff24r529a617563e17663@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: "Paulo J. Matos" Cc: "linux-acpi@vger" Sorry for having posted in private, I should have done a "reply all"... I think we should come back into the list so that it may help other people and other people may help... ;-) >> > I've been installing gentoo on a HP Compaq tc4200 tablet PC and things >> > seem to work fine except ACPI which (through kacpid) eats up my >> > processor constantly by 100%. This is definitely a problem since >> > passing noacpi to the kernel (although it solves the kacpid cpu >> > hunger) removes the possibility of havin battery, fan, cpu temp, etc. >> > >> > Any ideas on how to solve something like this? >> >> >> Have you tried to fix DSDT bugs ? > > > 10 min. ago didn't know what that was. Now I think you're referring to > this: > http://acpi.sourceforge.net/dsdt/index.php > > I've not yet clearly understood what this is but my guess is that I > can work around it if needed. However, people having the same PC and > after installing linux say the ACPI works ok. Can they have a diff > BIOS version (supposing that the DSDT problem is on the BIOS)? If I well understood, this is a (often bugged due to a M$ compiler...) table the OS uses to know how to deal with ACPI. I guess that newer BIOS versions than yours might have a corrected ACPI table, but I'm afraid I can't help you further...