Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 13:30:51 -0400 From: Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> To: Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> Cc: acpi@freebsd.org, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI & battery issues Message-ID: <AANLkTim_3L9UmTas-YZ=4WxgPAt%2BHe%2BWaQqSi9Y58Uu7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20101004004508.R62022@sola.nimnet.asn.au> References: <20101003094814.2B50B106575D@hub.freebsd.org> <20101004004508.R62022@sola.nimnet.asn.au>
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I was told to bring this to acpi@'s attention On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Ian Smith <smithi@nimnet.asn.au> wrote: > In freebsd-questions Digest, Vol 330, Issue 10, Message: 5 > On Sat, 2 Oct 2010 10:42:23 -0400 Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrot= e: > > =C2=A0> I see > =C2=A0> ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for > =C2=A0> [EmbeddedControl] (20100331/evregion-588) > =C2=A0> ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed > =C2=A0> [\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node 0xc6adba60), > =C2=A0> AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE > =C2=A0> > =C2=A0> repeatedly in dmesg > =C2=A0> > =C2=A0> sysctl's relating to battery information is also slow: > =C2=A0> % time sysctl hw.acpi.battery.state > =C2=A0> hw.acpi.battery.state: 7 > =C2=A0> sysctl hw.acpi.battery.state =C2=A00.00s user 2.18s system 72% cp= u 3.006 total > =C2=A0> > =C2=A0> % time sysctl hw.acpi.battery > =C2=A0> hw.acpi.battery.life: -1 > =C2=A0> hw.acpi.battery.time: -1 > =C2=A0> hw.acpi.battery.state: 7 > =C2=A0> hw.acpi.battery.units: 1 > =C2=A0> hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5 > =C2=A0> sysctl hw.acpi.battery =C2=A00.00s user 6.58s system 67% cpu 9.77= 9 total > =C2=A0> > =C2=A0> also note that the life and time are both negative one. > =C2=A0> > =C2=A0> This is on a Lenovo G530 laptop. > > The Embedded Controller timed out so battery info is unknown / bogus, > which appears quite likely the issue reported here: > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3D150517 It might be the same issue - but I am able to use shutdown -p to shutdown. > > If you're sure you have the latest Lenovo BIOS/EC updates, try posting > your report above to the freebsd-acpi list, also providing OS version > (uname -a) and contents of /var/run/dmesg.boot I'm unsure if I have the latest BIOS, however the vendor's only update tool requires windows - which I don't have a copy of to run it. Machine info: FreeBSD AlphaBeta.local 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE #0: Mon Jul 19 02:55:53 UTC 2010 root@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 http://isis.poly.edu/~eitan/files/dmesg.boot If its relevant here is acpidump -dt http://isis.poly.edu/~eitan/files/AlphaBeta.acpidump.asl.gz --=20 Eitan Adler
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