Re: Macbook and ACPI Battery support

[Matthias G. <mat...@us...>]

On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 11:26:03 +0100
PaulTT <pa...@gm...> wrote:

Hi Paul,

> i'm not sure if it was really pbbuttons fault
> after a while, one month of uptime, i say, acpi battery stat went away again.
> anyway, i'll put together a (trivial) patch to enable/disable battery
> pooling by pbbuttons, anyway

ACPI support in pbbuttonsd is quite very basic yet. If you have any code
that improves the situation, feel free to send it to me.

ACPI should always report the correct battery values if pbbuttons
polling the data or not. Possibly the ACPI kernel code might got
confused by an error I made in pbbuttonsd but this is not very likely.
(confusing the kernel, not making errors in pbbuttonsd ;-) )

If you have acpid running, it could also an incompatibility of acpid
and pbbuttonsd. I made pbbuttonsd attach to acpid if it can't get the
acpi kernel port directly, but possibly this failed somehow. I have
only poor possibilities to test all this because I don't have a
MacBook. So help is always welcome.

 Best Regards
   Matthias