Comment 22 for bug 99356

Happy to hear that, but I doubt your laptop does not support ACPI. The
proof is you can't read your battery power level, and that's an ACPI
feature. If you could ever do that then ACPI is supported, even if the
BIOS does not mention it because it just won't allow you to disable it.
Laptop BIOS never allow much configuration anyway.

This looks more like a bug in the userspace daemon (acpid) than the
kernel ACPI or your laptop (note that a few laptops have bad acpi i.e.
not standard, like my old Toshiba Satellite). Turning off the deamon
does not turn off the kernel ACPI support, which is still running in the
background. If your laptop really had trouble with ACPI, you would need
to pass the "noacpi" switch to the kernel at boot time.

Still it's good to know that turning off the daemon works for some.

archie wrote:
> I found out, it is acpi. My laptop bios does not support acpi control.
> It is advance power control scheme/module. Dont know great details
> about it :-)
> Solution I found for myself is to turn out acpi daemon. Battery control
> doesnt work, but repeats dissappeared. I installed xubuntu, there is so
> called gnome-power-manager instead of acpi, no repeat problems. Battery
> applet doesnt work, anyway. Good news if problem was solved in Gutsy,
> waiting for final release.
>
> mciancio wrote:
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>> I've the same problem on many [old] pc in a school lab using 7.04: under
>> heavy load they begin to repeat/lost keys and bbbbegiiiinnn maaaaad :(
>>
>> no solution?
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