Re: thinkpad-acpi release 0.16-20070922 uploaded to ibm-acpi.sf.net

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Hi,

I hope this mail actually arrives at ibm-acpi-devel...

On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 03:02:48PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Sun, 23 Sep 2007, Michael Olbrich wrote:
> > I get new events for the thinklight and the mixer (up/down/mute).
> 
> Yeah, you can get them without the nvram too, but they default to being
> masked out, and the "debug command" I gave you to enable NVRAM polling
> enables it for every NVRAM-able hotkey, including thinklight and mixer.

Ah, yes.

> > Howerver the brightness up/down keys are messed up. Without NVRAM
> > polling I get events for every key press. With NVRAM polling I only get
> > events when the brightness is actually changing (e.g. no event for "up"
> > when the brightness is already at the maximum) and events get lost when
> > I'm too fast.
> 
> Please increase hotkey_poll_freq, and tell me at which point it stops losing
> events.  It defaults to 4Hz, which apparently is too low.  10Hz should do it
> (it is what thinkpad-keys use), but if we can take it lower...

It looses events with anything less than 10Hz

> I will change the code to send brightness events on the extremes, too.
> Volume needs that change as well.

So the behaviour will be identical with or without NVRAM polling?

> > After pressing the sleep key (Fn-F4) and receiving the event I need to
> > wait some time (>1min I think) before it works again. The same for
> > suspend (Fn-F12). This problem also existed in version 0.15-20070723.
> 
> This is the firmware's doing, so I'd say it is the expected behaviour.

And nothing can be done to change that?

michael

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