Re: Learning ACPI

[Jim Summers <jsummers-5f/76mLIbwCHXe+LvDLADg@public.gmane.org>]

Karol Kozimor wrote:
> Thus wrote Jim Summers:
> 
>>I guess I am not understanding how, if the acpid is correctly monitoring 
>>the lid state then why would it not fire the events/actions?  I can 
>>porvide more info, dmesg output etc...
> 
> 
> Basically, the lid stat is polled, while the events are interrupt driven.
> For the record, could you try with an older ( <= 2.6.7) kernel?

I will give it a go.  If it works in 2.6.7 what would have gotten lost 
in 2.6.10?

I have not applied the 2005-01-26 patch for 2.6.10.  Could that fix the 
lost interrupt issue?

TIA

  There seems
> to be an issue in handling EC interrupts in recent kernels, it might be
> that.
> Best regards,
> 

-- 
Jim Summers
School of Computer Science-University of Oklahoma
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