Re: ACPI Power Button Event problems(?)

[Wes Janzen <superchkn@sbcglobal.net>]

I did the cat /proc/acpi/event shortly after implementing my script and 
finding out it was continually being called after pressing the power 
button.  I got/(still get):
button/power PWRF 00000080 00000001
...
button/power PWRF 00000080 00006bbb
... etc.

Of course, with 2.6.0-test1-mm2, it would stop when I restarted acpid or 
pushed the power button again.  With 2.6.0-test2-mm1 that has changed in 
that stopping the events requires a reboot.

I can recompile my 2.4.18 with ACPI support and see what happens if that 
is necessary...just let me know.

Thanks.

Micha Feigin wrote:

>On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 09:51, Wes Janzen wrote:
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>>I'm having an interesting, and relatively benign problem with ACPI 
>>events.  I downloaded the ACPI daemon from SourceForge and with 
>>2.6.0-test1-mm2 when I pressed the power button, ACPI would be deluded 
>>with PWRF events until I pushed the button again or acpid was 
>>restarted.  That's easy enough to work around, but with 2.6.0-test2-mm1 
>>the events never stop.  Restarting the daemon makes no difference, nor 
>>does pushing the button have any effect.  That wouldn't be too big of a 
>>problem if I was using the power button to restart the PC, but I'm using 
>>the event to kill sawfish since it likes locking up (and disregarding 
>>any keyboard input) leaving me with no recourse but to press the reset 
>>button otherwise.  So, it works great for the first lockup, but I can't 
>>reset the power button event so I'm stuck with the reset button on the 
>>second round.  Unless I want to reboot, which I'd rather not. 
>>
>>Is this a bug in 2.6.0-test2-mm1 or was the bug the fact it could be 
>>cancelled in 2.6.0-test1-mm2?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>-Wes-
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>I am guessing that it is not a bug in acpid since stop it didn't help.
>You could try a
>cat /proc/acpi/event
>to make sure that you are actually getting these events no stop.
>I am guessing that it is a faulty dsdt since you got the same the
>behavior on the different kernel.
>Can you tell if this also happens with 2.4 kernel?
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