Re: Re: Synaptics and keyboard losing interrupts w/ACPI ?

Karl Hegbloom
2004-04-05T03:43:47Z

On Sun, 2004-04-04 at 19:40, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > needed is to allow multiple applications read /proc/acpi/event simultaneously,
> > right now it only allows exclusive access.
>
> Or a more general daemon than acpid, that also cares for (and caches) battery
> states, temperatures, etc....

If anyone implements this, please make it possible to disable the
battery checks as a workaround for machines where this causes the
problems I've described.

It seems that on some boards, the ACPI battery state calls (is it BIOS?
are those 32 bit, or what?) take too long and have interrupts locked out
during that time. This is causing synaptics touch-pad pointer glitches,
keyboard bounce and lockout, and even network card lockup when under
heavy network load.