On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 10:12:42PM -0000, gluth wrote: > Yup, you are right, it looks like BIOS in this machine is completely > crapish and does work in random way (sometimes right, sometimes wrong). > I have tried to reproduce battery autofixing but was unable. Is there > any ACPI method which returns lot's of data but does not change anything > in and could be used to clear ACPI buffers?
The buffer in question is only used for some types of events, like hotkeys (I'm not sure what other types of events it's used for, but it's obvious from the DSDT that it expects other types of events). The only method that clears out the data in that buffer is the one we're already using to get the hotkey data. Another interesting thing that's perhaps worth noting is that the WMI interface doesn't appear to use the buffer in the same way -- it just sticks the most recent event in the first entry of the buffer and then reads back only that entry. So if the WMI interface was supported it shouldn't suffer from the same problem. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/827558 Title: toshiba_acpi unable to load on TOSHIBA SATELLITE C670-10V To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/827558/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
