[ltp] ACPI stops working on A22m

[Charles E "Rick" Taylor IV]

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 23:43 -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 acpid
> log file.  There don't seem to be any clues in my logs and I don't normally
> 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.

I had a similar issue with a JVC MiniNote laptop running Ubuntu Breezy -
also a 2.6.12 kernel.  After some days of suspend/hibernate/resume
activity, ACPI events would just stop working.  Like you, I would notice
that when I went to suspend the laptop and nothing happened.  

What cured the problem for me was to *manually* run the suspend or
hibernate script when this occurred.  When the laptop woke back up, ACPI
events worked again.

That was more of a kludge than a solution, but the only other thing I
found that would solve the problem was a reboot.

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