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Iain Buchanan wrote: |
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> On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 01:27 -0600, »Q« wrote: |
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> > I have a Sony Vaio FS740 laptop, and I have power management set up |
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> > mostly to my liking, but with one problem. ACPI receives battery |
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> > events when the AC is connect and when it is unconnected, but also |
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> > at other times, and I don't know how to distinguish. |
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> It could be a number of things - perhaps you have a faulty cable / |
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> connection, which is causing ACPI events because it thinks it's just |
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> been unplugged, and replugged. |
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> Or perhaps your thinkpad sends ACPI events when the battery has |
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> reached certain charge levels... don't know - someone with the same |
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> laptop will have to comment. |
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> Do these spontaneous ACPI events only happen when plugged in? or only |
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> when unplugged, or both? |
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They happen whether or not it's plugged in. Sony won't tell anybody |
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how their ACPI stuff works, and AFAICT from some more googling, no one |
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is sure exactly what is going on with any given model. |
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> To get around it, perhaps you could keep "state" with a file. eg |
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> (untested): |
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[big snip] |
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> HTH! |
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It certainly did; thanks very much! After some tinkering (my |
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understanding of testing syntax in bash scripts is pretty weak), I've |
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got the scheme you suggested working fine. |
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