Alan Jenkins wrote: > Alexey Starikovskiy wrote: > >> Here is the patch. >> >> Please try/review. >> >> > Sorry, I can't help with testing this any more. The "bad state" I > complained about earlier seems to be permanent now. > > I left the laptop with AC and battery disconnected last night. This > morning both 2.6.22 and 2.6.24-19-generic (ubuntu) are locking up or > rebooting as soon as I press a hotkey. The patch resets the default > behaviour back to 2.6.24, so it won't make any difference. > > None of these kernels should have the GPE polling problem. There are > many people using Ubuntu on the EeePC without complaint; I must have > damaged the hardware or firmware. > > OTOH 2.6.21.4-eeepc (the pre-installed kernel from Xandros/Asus) is > immune. I will work on it, but don't expect anything soon. > I was able to bisect this to a config option, X86_UP_IOAPIC. I can get rid of it on all kernels by just booting with noapic. I was then able to try your patch, which works fine. I see the warning in the kernel log, but no hotkey keypresses are lost. Thanks Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html