Problem with powerd

[Joe Marcus Clarke]

On 6/22/10 4:30 PM, Nicolas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using FreeBSD 9-Current with Gnome 2.30 and i have strange problem
> with "upowerd", it consume 66% or 94% of my cpu.
> 
> When i tap "dmesg" on the terminal i have this message from FreeBSD:
> 
> acpi_ec0: EcRead: failed waiting to get data
> ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for
> [EmbeddedControl] (20100428/evregion-588)
> ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed
> [\\_SB_.BAT0._BST] (Node 0xc6f3e540), AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE
> 
> It's strange because it does not happen all the time, someone has this
> problem ?

I have on my Dell Vostro.  I think this is an ACPI problem, and when
there is a sync issue, trying to read the battery state fails.  You
might try and see if the ACPI people can offer some suggestions.

Joe

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