Re: [ACPI-sppt] [ANNOUNCE] wmacpi 1.99 released, with new maintainer.

Hi Micha Feigin,


On Tue, 25 Nov 2003 18:16:37 +0200 Micha Feigin <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:56:38PM +0100, wwp wrote:
> > Hi Simon Fowler,
> > 
> > 
> > On Mon, 24 Nov 2003 13:43:13 +1100 [email protected] (Simon Fowler) wrote:
> > 
> > > I'd like to announce my release of a new version of wmacpi, based on
> > > wmacpi-ng, which was a complete rewrite of wmacpi-1.34. I've
> > > attempted to contact the original author of wmacpi without success,
> > > and since there doesn't seem to be anyone else looking to take over
> > > the package I figure I will . . .
> > [snip]
> > 
> > I still get the mouse slowlyness that we've discussed about a few weeks
> > ago on wmaker's ML. 1.34 doesn't produce such periodical stuck (but
> > of course doesn't provide as complete support as 1.99.
> > 
> > I've also noticed that using 1.34 on my SuSE 8.1 (kernel 2.4.19, acpi
> > 20020829), the machine dies after 12-24h (machine frozen, most of
> > the time all fans at full speed). I will try w/ 1.99 eheh even if it's not
> > useable because of the periodical slowlyness (don't ask me to set
> > a larger period, 'cause even larger the stuck will be there and it's
> > very boring).
> > 
> 
> I don't know if its related, but cpufreqd had a similar problem and
> there was a fix implemented there with the new version to change the
> polling method on machines suffering from that problem.


FYI: I've also checked wmbatteries (recent update), and had no such
itchy micro-slowdown with it. (http://sourceforge.net/projects/wmbatteries)


HTH,

-- 
wwp


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