Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751294AbVIGUK0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:10:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751299AbVIGUK0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:10:26 -0400 Received: from fmr14.intel.com ([192.55.52.68]:3771 "EHLO fmsfmr002.fm.intel.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751294AbVIGUKZ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:10:25 -0400 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Subject: battery status events (RE: Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2005 16:10:07 -0400 Message-ID: X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: battery status events (RE: Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events?) Thread-Index: AcWyHGFIAA7ZO+/ITQaBtO7Axf+85gByqPBw From: "Brown, Len" To: "Jan De Luyck" Cc: , , "Lebedev, Vladimir P" , "Yu, Luming" X-OriginalArrivalTime: 07 Sep 2005 20:10:13.0604 (UTC) FILETIME=[2812EA40:01C5B3E8] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2093 Lines: 61 >-----Original Message----- >From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org >[mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of Jan De Luyck >Sent: Monday, September 05, 2005 9:17 AM >To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org >Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6.13 repeated ACPI events? > >I'm seeing repeated ACPI events too, but of the battery kind: > >[Mon Sep 5 15:13:52 2005] received event "battery BAT2 >00000080 00000001" >[Mon Sep 5 15:13:52 2005] completed event "battery BAT2 >00000080 00000001" >[Mon Sep 5 15:14:53 2005] received event "battery BAT1 >00000080 00000001" >[Mon Sep 5 15:14:53 2005] completed event "battery BAT1 >00000080 00000001" >[Mon Sep 5 15:14:53 2005] received event "battery BAT2 >00000080 00000001" >[Mon Sep 5 15:14:53 2005] completed event "battery BAT2 >00000080 00000001" >[Mon Sep 5 15:15:55 2005] received event "battery BAT1 >00000080 00000001" >[Mon Sep 5 15:15:55 2005] completed event "battery BAT1 >00000080 00000001" >[Mon Sep 5 15:15:55 2005] received event "battery BAT2 >00000080 00000001" >[Mon Sep 5 15:15:55 2005] completed event "battery BAT2 >00000080 00000001" > >going on forever and ever... > >Jan The kernel doesn't created these messages -- presumably they're from acpid or some other user-level daemon that is monitoring /proc/acpi/event. Unlikely that logging these events is necessary... Event 0x80 on the battery device is a "Battery Status Changed" which you'd expect to see when plugging/charging/discharging a battery. How frequent they are depends on the rate, the battery and the firmware that is talking to it. Is there a GUI or something reading the battery status files? Do these events stop when running in text mode? Did this not happen on this box with earlier kernels? Do the /proc/acpi/battery* files look sane -- is the status really changing? thanks, -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/