Re: Macbook and ACPI Battery support

[PaulTT <pa...@gm...>]

On Nov 10, 2007 11:27 AM, Matthias Grimm
<mat...@us...> wrote:
> 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.

bein a little jammed in these days, as soon as i have the time, i'll
write a patch to enable/disable battery check at runtime (it could be
useful for desktop computers, anyway, i think) from configuration file

> 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 ;-) )

i couldn't get any reasonable result, indeed.
it may be that pbb could confuse the kernel, but even with battery
code disabled, after a while -even if it was a loooong while- acpi
stopped responding correctly.
so it could or couldn't be the fault of pbb. now, with 2.6.24rc3 it
seems to be stable. but i have to wait at least another few days to
talk....
i'll let you informed, thanx for the work and the attention :)

> 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

i stopped acpid anyway since i didn't found any utility in having it

> 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.

if tou need something to test, tell me, i've got a macbook which is
mine, and  another to test on ;P

>  Best Regards
>    Matthias
>
bye