Re: HP Compaq nc6320

2006-10-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 12 October 2006 02:08, Peter Clifton wrote: Wierdly, I've lost the Battery/AC adapter status monitoring again, with or without ec_intr=0. Gets odder! Ok, Nearing completion of this tale I think.. Turns out there is a known problem with psmouse, which leaves the

Re: HP Compaq nc6320

2006-10-12 Thread Thomas Renninger
On Thu, 2006-10-12 at 16:53 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Thursday, 12 October 2006 02:08, Peter Clifton wrote: Wierdly, I've lost the Battery/AC adapter status monitoring again, with or without ec_intr=0. Gets odder! Ok, Nearing completion of this tale I think..

Re: HP Compaq nc6320

2006-10-12 Thread Peter Clifton
[snip] I got several reports that compiling psmouse as module and unload it explicitly on shutdown helps to fix things on newer HPs. E.g. this report: About the fan and battery issue, there are three workaround: - Turn off the machine and quit battery, Place the battery again. - Next

Re: Preventing ACPI from Damaging Your CPU

2006-10-12 Thread Mathew Brown
Thanks for your reply Rafael. However, I was looking for a generic solution. I don't have an nx6325 but was thinking of purchasing a laptop and was afraid that ACPI could damage / overheat by CPUs. I think the link you provided is specific to the nx6325 unless I'm mistaken. Is there any

Re: USB resume problem with IBM dock

2006-10-12 Thread Kristen Carlson Accardi
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 00:02:42 -0400 David Abrahams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I hope I've come to the right place; I'm going based on the information in my kernel's MAINTAINERS file. I have been using suspend2 with a 2.6.18 kernel, my Thinkpad T60p, and a Thinkpad Advanced dock. When

Re: Preventing ACPI from Damaging Your CPU

2006-10-12 Thread Rafael J. Wysocki
On Thursday, 12 October 2006 18:51, Mathew Brown wrote: Thanks for your reply Rafael. However, I was looking for a generic solution. I don't have an nx6325 but was thinking of purchasing a laptop and was afraid that ACPI could damage / overheat by CPUs. I think the link you provided is

[PATCH] ACPI header length printk format warning

2006-10-12 Thread Stephen Hemminger
Get rid of warning from printk arguments on 64 bit platforms. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- orig/drivers/acpi/tables/tbget.c +++ new/drivers/acpi/tables/tbget.c @@ -324,8 +324,9 @@ acpi_tb_get_this_table(struct acpi_point if (header-length sizeof(struct

Re: [PATCH] ACPI header length printk format warning

2006-10-12 Thread Randy Dunlap
On Thu, 12 Oct 2006 11:03:45 -0700 Stephen Hemminger wrote: Get rid of warning from printk arguments on 64 bit platforms. size_t (sizeof) should use %zd or %zu or %zx or %zX.

Re: Preventing ACPI from Damaging Your CPU

2006-10-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 07:26:00AM -0700, Mathew Brown wrote: I've been reading an alarming article on getting Gentoo to work on the HP Compaq nx6325 (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_Gentoo_on_HP_Compaq_nx6325) and the serious ACPI problems that were encountered. The author states

Re: Strange entries in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone for Thinkpad X60

2006-10-12 Thread Len Brown
On Thursday 12 October 2006 18:19, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: I have a Thinkpad X60 with an Intel Core Duo T2400. In /proc/acpi/thermal_zone, I'm getting two subdirectories, each with their own set of files: /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THM0/cooling_mode: setting not supported cooling mode:

Re: Preventing ACPI from Damaging Your CPU

2006-10-12 Thread Matthew Garrett
On Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 09:41:15PM -0700, Mathew Brown wrote: Thanks Matthew. Just out of curiosity, how did you find out about this feature (forcing the fan at 80C)? Also, is this specific to HP or do other vendors also support this? Finally, is 80C safe for the CPU (Intel or AMD?)? I

USB suspend/resume in linux

2006-10-12 Thread Kaburlasos, Nikos
Does anyone know whether the linux USB drivers support the suspend feature on idle USB ports (i.e. the port has been idle for sometime and so the driver transitions it in to a low-power 'suspend' state) while the system is active and in S0 state? As far as I know, Windows don't support that, I was