Re: Synaptics and keyboard losing interrupts w/ACPI ?

Dmitry Torokhov
2004-04-04T04:36:37Z

On Saturday 03 April 2004 10:49 pm, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 19:19, Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> > On Sat, 2004-04-03 at 18:45, Randy.Dunlap wrote:
> > > Have you tried any hints from the "2.6 input drivers FAQ"?
> > > See http://lwn.net/Articles/69107/ or google for the string above.
> >
> > First I will try to turn off the battery monitor in the gkrellm that I
> > always have running.
>
> That cures it! I can run with ACPI enabled as long as the gkrellm
> battery monitor is not on. The keyboard and synaptics losing sync thing
> occurs only when I turn on the battery monitor.

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.

> 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. :(

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Dmitry