Re: [privat] Re: 2.6.9-rc4 ACPI problem after starting X

Sebastian
2004-10-15T15:36:33Z

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 00:36:07 +0200
Stefan Seyfried <seife-T+3qhDtrTvDv8lqoKu5MV4HBZQ1bDw0s@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 13, 2004 at 05:21:18PM +0200, Sebastian wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > After starting X (v. 4.4.0) I'm getting still some strange ACPI
> > errors in dmesg.
> >
> > dswload-0292: *** Error: Looking up [PBST] in namespace,
> > AE_ALREADY_EXISTS psparse-1133: *** Error: Method execution failed
> > [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.BAT1._BST] (Node c1474f28), AE_ALREADY_EXISTS
> >
> > This does not happen, when working with the console. It starts some
> > seconds, after i started X.
>
> i suspect this is some battery applet accessing your battery.
> What windowmanager / desktop environment are you using?
> --
> Stefan Seyfried
>

Hi,

thanks for that hint. it seems gkrellm is causing these problem.
after preventing gkrellm from starting via .xinitrc these messages don't
apear anymore.

i did a little research, since gkrellm is only reading
/proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state and /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ACAD/state to
display battery status.

i can reproduce these error messages with the following command:

while [ 1 ]; do cat /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state && sleep 1; done

it's 100% reproduceable on my laptop.

should i fill a bug report ?

kernelversion is 2.6.9-rc4. but this problem is present since 2.6.7 (or earlier)

Sebastian

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