Bug 110332

It's been a while sinc I had this bug, and it re-appeared today.

And, actually, it was the first time since long that I used my laptop
with the battery plugged in (I usually use it without the battery).

After removing the battery, the bug disappeared.

so this happens only when
1. ACPI is enabled
2. battery is present
3. fan is broken
and the temperature exceeds the critical shutdown temperature of 79C?

pleaase capture the contents of the files 
under /proc/acpi/thermal_zone when this is happening, and when it is 
not happening.

Can you verify that it still happnes with the 2.6-based FC2?

thanks,
-Len

Well, I've not been very complete in my last report. Here is exactly
what I noticed:

The "sticky keys" phenomenom appears when:

 - ACPI is enabled
 - temperature exceeds 79°C
 - the battery is plugged or un-plugged

The new thing is that I saw it happen too when:

 - ACPI is *disabled*
 - the battery is plugged

In the second case, I don't know what the temperature, because I don't
know how to get such information without ACPI enabled. That said, I
had been working for about 3 or 4 hours on my laptop (mostly
programming involving compilation and, thus, heavy CPU usage) when it
happened. So I guess the temperature was a bit high.
Is there a way  to get the temperature without ACPI ?

Note that, maybe my laptop's temperature tends to grow faster when
ACPI is off and the battery is plugged... that would explain why, when
ACPI is off, it only happens with the battery plugged. But what's
stranger is that removing the battery immediately made the bug go
away, without rebooting or waiting for the laptop to "calm down"...

For more information, I captured the files 
under /proc/acpi/thermal_zone during an intensive compilation session,
*with ACPI on*:

--
[root@localhost julien]# ls /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THR1:
cooling_mode  polling_frequency  state  temperature  trip_points
 
/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THR2:
cooling_mode  polling_frequency  state  temperature  trip_points
[root@localhost julien]# cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/*
<not supported>
<polling disabled>
state:                   ok
temperature:             61 C
critical (S5):           78 C
<not supported>
<polling disabled>
state:                   ok
temperature:             53 C
critical (S5):           72 C
[root@localhost julien]# watch cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/*
Every 2s: cat /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THR1/cooling_...  Sat Mar 13
09:30:04 2004                                                        
                       
<not supported>
<polling disabled>
state:                   ok
temperature:             79 C
critical (S5):           78 C
<not supported>
<polling disabled>
state:                   ok
temperature:             67 C
critical (S5):           72 C
--

As soon as I install Fedora Core 2 I'll tell you if the problem is
still there. But I know I have already tried a few 2.6-based fedora
kernels a few months ago and the problem was still there, then I
reverted to 2.4.

Still a problem in latest kernels ?

No, it seems fixed now. You can close it, thanks.

hi i have read all above conversation about repeating keys. I have the
same problem after I upgrade from Redhat 8.0 to Fedora core 2, kernel
2.6 ofcourse. As said above, if turn acpi=off from grup.conf, the key
repeating problem disappears, but sound card is undetected. 
Could you please help me out...ASAP.
secondly could you add ravindrakrk, so that i can get reply.
thanks