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From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Hanno Böck" <hanno@hboeck.de>,
	acpi@linux.intel.com, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Power button not working on T61
Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2008 23:56:50 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.10.0810102352120.7059@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200810101938.51573.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>



> You must have CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECIATED set, this would explain the
> difference in sysfs paths. 

yes.

turns out that was a red herring, for Hanno reports:

> It never "worked".
>
> The issue is "resolved" now, someone told me that one has to
> press about 2 sec on the button to generate an acpi event.
> This is probably caused by the bios and not fixable outside the bios.

yes, i've noticed that the button has to be held for a bit
(or pressed hard) on the T61.  I assume this is an EC thing.

-Len


      reply	other threads:[~2008-10-11  3:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-10 11:19 Power button not working on T61 Hanno Böck
2008-10-10 15:45 ` Len Brown
2008-10-10 23:38   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2008-10-11  3:56     ` Len Brown [this message]

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