From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Karl Hegbloom Subject: Re: Synaptics and keyboard losing interrupts w/ACPI ? Date: Sat, 03 Apr 2004 21:16:07 -0800 Sender: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org Message-ID: <1081055767.2239.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1081044549.2179.281.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1081048768.2179.293.camel@localhost.localdomain> <1081050591.2239.1.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200404032336.39468.dtor_core@ameritech.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <200404032336.39468.dtor_core-yWtbtysYrB+LZ21kGMrzwg@public.gmane.org> Errors-To: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: Dmitry Torokhov Cc: acpi-devel-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org 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?) -- If you feel like the machines are conspiring against you, then it's time to perspire against the machines. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click