RE: Gateway 200X (again) - No power button events

[Nate Lawson <nate-Y6VGUYTwhu0@public.gmane.org>]

On Tue, 20 Jan 2004, Grover, Andrew wrote:
> > From: acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org
> > [mailto:acpi-devel-admin-5NWGOfrQmneRv+LV9MX5uipxlwaOVQ5f@public.gmane.org] On Behalf Of
> > Nate Lawson
> > On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Greg Sarjeant wrote:
> > > So, it looks like it is specified in the DSDT. I'm not sure
> > why I don't
> > > get an event when I press the button. I do get events from the sleep
> > > button, but the two are declared somewhat differently. Here
>
> > You have no _STA method for PWRB.  On FreeBSD, we say hw is
> > always present
> > if there is no _STA method.  If it is present, it must return
> > the proper
> > flags for the hw to be used.  Perhaps Linux always thinks
> > it's not present
> > if _STA is not there.  Note that SLPB returns the proper _STA result.
>
> The ACPI spec in fact says that the absence of _STA implies the device
> is present and functioning. Linux has code for this case, which I am
> assuming (?) works.

Ok, sorry for the misdirection.

-Nate


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