On 02-Jul-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: > On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, John Baldwin wrote: >> On 01-Jul-2003 Nate Lawson wrote: >> > Please download and try the new version. It correctly implements burst >> > mode to the best of the 2.0 spec. Like the previous message, please >> > report the appropriate dmesgs ("acpi_ec0*" and "EC Waited*") and any >> > errors or regression. I've tested "du -a /" while plugging/unplugging the >> > power cable on my laptop many times with no errors. >> > >> > I haven't received any feedback yet. This WILL hit the tree in a few >> > weeks because it fixes known problems. Test it now or test it then. :) >> >> This made my machine a LOT worse. Previously I would occasionally get >> failed EcRead's do to timeout reading the battery and thermal status after >> the machine had been up for a while, but battery status still worked. >> Setting the event_driven tunable made no difference. With this patch, the >> EC is very, very broke. I now get spammed during bootup with a flood of >> failures from EcCommand: >> >> EC Waited max 16 cycles, event occurred >> acpi_ec0: EcCommand: no response to 80, disabling burst mode > > It appears your machine does not properly support burst mode. I suspected > that may be the case, which is what I was checking. I'll be doing some > more work on the patch and post it again.
Ok. >> This has seriously hosed my machine. > > Um, you can go back to the old acpi module and I doubt it caused any loss. > Thanks for testing. Of course, but while using it it hosed my machine. :) It was functional enough for me to compose the above e-mail except that the mouse kept flying up to the upper-right hand corner of the screen and I had to double-type several keys. :) -- John Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <>< http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"