Re: lid state reported incorrectly; no ac events

[Fedor Karpelevitch <fedor-ugkMPi23kyXAHCkTjeiZhQ@public.gmane.org>]

On Пятница 25 Июль 2003 01:58 pm, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > From: Fedor Karpelevitch [mailto:fedor-ugkMPi23kyXAHCkTjeiZhQ@public.gmane.org]
> > so state!=0 is interpreted as "open" whereas (it seems to me)
> > since it
> > is state of the _button_ (not the lid itself), it would be
> > logical that state!=0 means that button is depressed (which means
> > that the lid is closed). Am I making sense here?
> > The only question here is what happens on other laptops or
> > whether this is specified in ACPI docs somewhere?
>
> 10.3.1 _LID
> Evaluates to the current status of the lid.
> Result Code:
> Zero: The lid is closed
> Non-zero: The lid is open

so I guess this is a bug of this laptop. What would be a proper way to 
handle this? Blacklist? Special compile option?

>
> > The other question (issue?) I have is that in acpid log I only
> > see messages for power and lid buttons and the battery (BTW when
> > exactly do these fire? is it only when battery is critically
> > low/fully charged or more often?). I expected to see AC
> > connected/disconnected events and maybe thermal events too. When
> > I compile with acpi debugging output I do see messages on ac
> > plugging/unplugging so I assume it gets detected correctly, but
> > event does not fire. Is that ok or is it a bug?
>
> Probably just not handled by acpid.

Thanks, I'll look into that...

fedor.


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