RE: broken power button

["greg" <greg-QNIYhHqVzB9kr2E5YSwMOQ@public.gmane.org>]

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From: "Scott T. Smith" <scott-j3vAvQ9dNB9ByuSxxbvQtw@public.gmane.org>
To: "Yu, Luming" <luming.yu-ral2JQCrhuEAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Sent: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 09:38:48 -0800
Subject: RE: [ACPI] broken power button

> On Fri, 2004-02-06 at 09:17, Yu, Luming wrote: 
> > > > I applied the patch; I think ACPI should report a warning 
> > > in this case. 
> > 
> > I suspect that patch is not necessary.
> > 
> > IAccording to the description of ACPI spec section 4.7.2.2.1.1
> > there should have SCI interrupt triggered by Fixed Power Button.
> > 
> > To verify whether Fixed Power Button works as expected, you 
> > can just hit power button , and check /proc/interrupts to see whether
> > ACPI interrupt number get increased. 
> 
> My ACPI interrupt number climbs by 8 about once every two seconds (step
> function).
> 
> if I press the power button with Greg's patch (i.e. force PWRB not
> PWRF), it jumps by 2 when I press the button (then another 8 less 
> than one second later).  I also get this in /var/log/acpid:
> 
> [Fri Feb  6 09:26:22 2004] received event "button/power PWRB 
> 00000080 00000006"
> [Fri Feb  6 09:26:22 2004] executing action "/etc/acpi/default.sh 
> button/power PWRB 00000080 00000006"
> [Fri Feb  6 09:26:22 2004] BEGIN HANDLER MESSAGES
> [Fri Feb  6 09:26:22 2004] END HANDLER MESSAGES
> [Fri Feb  6 09:26:22 2004] action exited with status 0
> [Fri Feb  6 09:26:22 2004] completed event "button/power PWRB 
> 00000080 00000006"
> 
> without the patch, the power button also causes the # of interrupts 
> to jump by 2, but I get nothing in /var/log/acpid.
> 
> 	Scott
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I can confirm this behavior on my machine as well.


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