Re: Battery display generates ACPI events (stops X from powering off display)

On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 05:33:53PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote:

> > I noticed that when I enable battery display in Gkrellm, an ACPI event
> > is generated every time gkrellm checks the battery status. I have acpid
> > running, and the message logged by acpid is something like
> > 
> >     acpid: group=processor, action=processor, device=CPU1, value=00000000, id=00000080
> > 
> > I only have one CPU on my system (CPU0).
> > 
> > If this just meant a few extra lines in my system log I wouldn't care.
> > However what happens is that X thinks that this is a real ACPI event,
> > and decides to wake up the monitor! So with gkrellm running, my monitor
> > doesn't power off.
> > 
> > Of course, reading the battery status and CPU temperature manually from
> > the files /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/* does not generate this ACPI event.
> > 
> > Any idea why, and how I can stop this?
>
> I'm very sure this is not the normal behavior since I have the battery
> display enabled and I'm not experiencing this... I was using it with
> the kernels 2.6.18, 2.6.21 and right now with the 2.6.22 and don't
> have that kind of problems... Maybe something with your acpi?? Which
> is your notebook? What distro are you using?

Well, I've seen this behaviour with 2.6.19, and 2.6.21 (also 22). I use
Gentoo, and my laptop is a Linux Certified laptop (LC2200E).

What other info about my system would help? lspci? Just let me know. I'd
*love* to track down this problem...

Thanks,

GI

-- 
'Intellectual' -- Someone capable of thinking for more than 2 hours
about something other than sex.
_______________________________________________
Gkrellm mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.jutley.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/gkrellm