On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Richard Hughes wrote: > I'm going on a rampage of killing system daemons that talk to one type > of hardware. Leave those to me. Ok, but please make sure to use a spiked war hammer, coated in radioactive rabid platypus blood while at it... it always pay to make it very clear just how displeased you are with some sorts of behaviour, and nothing drives the point home as well as a spiked war hammer coated with radioactive rabid platypus blood driven up one's nose... Oh dear, it appears that I am still "a bit displeased and annoyed" that some of those daemons and applets were DoS'ing the kernel (and ibm-acpi) every few milliseconds asking for fan, thermal and battery readings ;-) > Brilliant, I'll try it out this afternoon. Thanks for your help with > this, I really owe you a couple of beers. Your enthusiasm is one of the driving forces behind my current thinkpad-acpi hacking binge, so we are all among beer friends, here! -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel