Re: [ACPI] [ acpi-Bugs-562069 ] cat BAT1/info locks keyboard

[Stephen W. <ste...@ea...>]

---- Original Message ----
> From Markus Gaugusch <ma...@ga...>
> Date: Tuesday, 09 Jul 2002, 08:40
>
> On Jul 8, Stephen White <ste...@ea...> wrote:
> > I believe the attached patch should correct the problem.  It certainly
> > seems to be doing the right thing on my laptop.
> Works on my VAIO FX405, too!

Great.

> BUT: Reading the battery info takes pretty long time. This causes
> interrupts to get lost (I guess): mouse clicking gets lost, sound is
> interrupted

That's a pain (and isn't something I've observed on my 501).

Of course the battery info file doesn't change much so the battery
status applet could read it once and cache the results, which would make
it useable (unless you're seeing the same delays from reading the the
state file too).

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