ACPI breaks maestro
Hi!
With acpi support turned on, maestro does not work. Turn acpi off, and maestro is working, again.
Pavel
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Quoted 7 lines · Pavel Machek
Hi!
With acpi support turned on, maestro does not work. Turn acpi off, and maestro is working, again.
Pavel
Funny, I was browsing that source code the other day, and while I found most of it unreadable, I found that it was talking about powermanagement and such with the driver, with crazy attempts at making programs using it sleep and cleanly turning on the power managment for the Maestro. (The Maestro appears to be able to turn off parts of itself to conserve energy).
Now, I don't use any type of Power Management, so I can't say what's going on, much less do I understand the source code completely enough to say that's it *for sure*... but it seems that's one of those drivers that was written by volunteers (Alan Cox and someone else, I can't think of their name off hand), who by far didn't design the hardware.
The driver works for me with few problems, without power management. If I could program well enough in C to even comprehend what all that is in that file, I might be able to try to hack it enough to fix it up to work... but that's a far cry from the knowledge that I have now. I couldn't write a regular user-space program that actually did something useful (other than being a suid wrapper) for the life of me. :-)
In fact the only programs I've successfully written for Linux, and gotten to work, is a program that I use set-uid to start my Internet connection. :-)
- Mike
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