Hello, Thanks for replying. It is now the exact same behaviour as mentioned in the bug report and email "pending/6099" from Aaron W.Hsu.
The message starts when opening the cd. Disabling acpithinkpad stops the message flood but it is still impossible to close the cd. Kind regards, Didier > -----Original Message----- > From: joshua stein [mailto:j...@openbsd.org] > Sent: 09 March 2009 01:43 > To: misc@openbsd.org > Subject: Re: acpithinkpad problems on thinkpad w500 > > > I came across a strange problem today. I (accidentally) opened the > cd/dvd > > player of my thinkpad w500 laptop. Once the player is opened, it is > > impossible to close it, as it is immediately reopened. > > > > Dmesg is flawed with the following messages: > > acpithinkpad0: unknown type 3 event 0x006 > > > > Any ideas on how I can solve the problem? > > does the event log at the opening or closing of the drive? > > if you disable the acpithinkpad device (boot -c) does the drive work > properly?