Re: [repost] acpi on gentoo

[Nigel <nigels@hotmail.com>]

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Luming Yu said on 11/3/2007 3:12 PM:
> On 3/11/07, Nigel <nigels@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Trying again to see if anyone had any other ideas.
>>
>> In addition:
>> The acpid daemon is running.
>> The same machine when booted into windows will automatically go to
>> powersave mode when the power cable is removed.
>>
> 
> what condition is your battery in? It makes sense if battery power is 
> very low.
   Battery #1     : present
     Remaining capacity : 47822 mWh, 100.0%
     Design capacity    : 50760 mWh
     Last full capacity : 47822 mWh, 94.21% of design capacity
(similar output was included in the original post)

Regardless of battery condition should I not still get an event for 
removing and reinserting the power cable? (Obviously waiting for a 
minute or two in-between )

> If battery is still full, then it sounds like a bug.  You need to test
> the latest base kernel before entering a acpi bug into
> bugzilla.kernel.org.

It works just fine on 2.6.19-r5 (gentoo)
Whilst is *may* have been a bug, the issue should no longer exist on a 
newer kernel.

> 
>> One interesting though, if I do : modprobe button
>> then every 30 seconds or so I get:
>> received event "battery BAT1 00000080 00000001"
>>
>> Even when i do rmmod button I still keep getting these events.
>> The only way to go back to "normal" behaviour is to reboot.
>>
>> Any suggestions as to what might be my problem here ?
>>
> I guess your battery power level is low.

Nope, that's not it.
Don't really get your logic either. *Only* when a certain module is 
loaded and after that *only* a reboot stops these messages means that 
the battery is low?

> </
> 

So, I take it that my choice is limited to using the newer kernel ?
I would normally not hesitate to use the newer kernel but my employer's 
vpn client is limited to 2.6.17

Nigel.