Re: Synaptics and keyboard losing interrupts w/ACPI ?

Karl Hegbloom
2004-04-04T05:16:07Z

On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 20:36, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> I think you can leave it on but you will have to increase the poll interval.
> Setting it to 30 sec or even 1 min will probably let you have your Synaptics
> working and still have an idea on battery level.

I will try this and see if it works, thank you.

> > So, something is the matter with the ACPI battery code! I doubt I can
> > find it... but I'll look in there anyway just for some exposure. :-)
>
> It is usually deep in the BIOS code, not something exposed in AML as far as
> I can understand. Polling battery often takes long time, especially polling
> full info as opposed to just state. :(

Is there any reason why the ACPI code cannot cache that info, rather
than looking it up each time the /proc file is accessed? (which is what
I think it does now... am I right?)