HAL battery event flood? Help

[Danny Kukawka]

On Sonntag, 21. Oktober 2007, Sean wrote:
> Hello, Was wondering if anyone could provide some advice on an issue I
> am seeing with Hal on a fresh gutsy install. The symptom is when I start
> my laptop with a second battery installed the hald process consumes like
> 40% of my CPU continuously.  Running hald in with verbose output shows
> that it is getting hammered with battery events, like 100 per second.
> My first reaction is that this is what is causing the CPU usage as I do
> not see this with one battery. What I don't understand is hald the
> 'victim' of something else gone haywire or the cause :)
>
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>
> Any advice is appreciated!

I would say the kernel or your hardware is may the problem. Start acpi_listen 
and see how many events you get from your battery. The HAL log show you only 
that HAL get several events per second from your battery. HAL have to react 
on them, what may cause the high load.

Danny