[ltp] ACPI stops working on A22m

Daniel Maier linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
Wed, 31 May 2006 19:47:01 +0200


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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 11:43:05PM -0700, Ray wrote:
> A while back I decided to try out acpi on my A22m.  It seemed to work fine
> at first, I could suspend/resume all I want etc and I really like the
> additional information in /proc/acpi but usually after a few days acpi
> events just stop showing up.  The rest of the machine functions as normal
> but the fn keys don't respond and I don't see any new messages in the acp=
id
> log file.  There don't seem to be any clues in my logs and I don't normal=
ly
> even notice until I go to suspend so I'm not exactly sure when it's
> happening.  I'm running Debian Sarge with a 2.6.12 kernel from kernel.org=
 if
> that helps.
>=20
Stop any process which might poll data from /proc/acpi. On my T22
this make ACPI events stop working. It took me ages to figure that
out, but after disabling my 1sec polling script, it work fine now.

Regards, nusse.

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