Re: broken power button

["Scott T. Smith" <scott-j3vAvQ9dNB9ByuSxxbvQtw@public.gmane.org>]

On Thu, 2004-02-05 at 19:33, Greg Sarjeant wrote:
>     I have the same issue with my power button on my Gateway 200X (which
> I think is roughly the same machine as the Dell X200). It appears to be

the older ones are identical AFAIK; the newer 200X's have 14" screens
though and seem totally different.

> an issue with fixed-feature power buttons. I opened bug 1920 to address
> the problem. You can check it out here:

I applied the patch; I think ACPI should report a warning in this case. 
According to p63, there are 2 bits of information (4 choices) but only 2
legal possibilities.  Windows must be ignoring the PWR_BUTTON field and
just checking for the existance of PWRB.  ACPI should complain if
PWR_BUTTON is not set and PWRB exists, or if PWR_BUTTON is set and PWRB
doesn't exist.

Similarly, if SLP_BUTTON is not set and SLPB exists, ACPI should throw a
warning too.

Unfortunately, while this lets me receive PWRB notifications, it doesn't
solve the lockup on suspend.  Ugh.

	Scott



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