A few HAL problems

[Richard Hughes]

On Wed, 2005-09-14 at 15:53 +0200, Fabian Zeindl wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Sep 2005 09:33:17 -0400, Dan Williams wrote
> > > I'm running HAL 0.5.4. I'm testing it with lshal|grep ac_adapter. 
> > > ac_adapter present switches to "false" (resp. "true) after about 15 seconds.
> > 
> > What kernel are you running?  HAL should just be taking its cues from
> > hotplug and from /proc/acpi, so if the kernel doesn't recognize that
> > you've plugged in the AC adapter for a while, neither will HAL...
> 
> I'm running kernel 2.6.12 and this is working perfectly. Change from off-line
> to on-line comes instantly (less than half a second I think).

Okay, what do you have for ps -A | grep hal ? Do you hald-addon-acpi
running?

Do you use acpid or the kernel event source? 

> > > I get the same output when the lid is open. cat
> > > /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state instantly says "closed" when I close it...

Richard.