From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 3 08:02:18 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECA26106564A for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 08:02:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from demelier.david@gmail.com) Received: from mail-bw0-f54.google.com (mail-bw0-f54.google.com [209.85.214.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78A9B8FC08 for ; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 08:02:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by bwz15 with SMTP id 15so4049712bwz.13 for ; Sun, 03 Oct 2010 01:02:17 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:received:in-reply-to :references:date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=OanfhXBQ7k8smBolXUc9Qnj9a1gc+fKK5KrR1XKxvZc=; b=iXLsczNQUj5d1tf9CazzX97gFALa/hx0s20tt9LBN075n2p86DvSSnRTI/SEzXF2fE +I08addc5hw4vNYmz+zpNSd8bXlKQ6JXkiaQscBxnlW5CMy79wQ4iP/YQSb9o3/ljlMB 2fWqbIBPYl/6n323rPp13vWclECx5mpRrje0Y= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=KrtIfzsfvMXT1pw3m02n4xlHcLadiGHffy2owwAliX4eOcRbFjVvP9ryCJkV93H6sB KHJPT/Fn40LadbiunQf2vsU59d8vyhG8B9fa/evjF+CU7qzS/boQ4AQy3Uyc8e59Uqq0 3v/o5jgovaNMoQpdPR26vUek2uVyFj7V8BoPM= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.204.52.77 with SMTP id h13mr5758356bkg.120.1286092935171; Sun, 03 Oct 2010 01:02:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.204.97.208 with HTTP; Sun, 3 Oct 2010 01:02:15 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: <4ca78fe8.8575df0a.0fdd.3721@mx.google.com> Date: Sun, 3 Oct 2010 10:02:15 +0200 Message-ID: From: David DEMELIER To: Eitan Adler Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: four.harrisons@googlemail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ACPI & battery issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2010 08:02:19 -0000 2010/10/2 Eitan Adler : > On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:01 PM, =C2=A0 wro= te: >> I get the same messages with the stock acpi on a Lenovo S10e. Someone on= the acpi list (who's name I forget) wrote a patch which removes the error.= If you think it might help I'll root it out and forward it on. > > > I'll be happy to take a look at the patch and see if it solves my > problem. does the patch just remove the error message or solve a > specific problem that might be causing the issue? > > > > >> > ... >> I see >> ACPI Exception: AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE, Returned by Handler for >> [EmbeddedControl] (20100331/evregion-588) >> ACPI Error (psparse-0633): Method parse/execution failed >> [\\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.BAT1._BST] (Node 0xc6adba60), >> AE_NO_HARDWARE_RESPONSE >> >> repeatedly in dmesg >> >> sysctl's relating to battery information is also slow: >> % time sysctl hw.acpi.battery.state >> hw.acpi.battery.state: 7 >> sysctl hw.acpi.battery.state =C2=A00.00s user 2.18s system 72% cpu 3.006= total >> >> % time sysctl hw.acpi.battery >> hw.acpi.battery.life: -1 >> hw.acpi.battery.time: -1 >> hw.acpi.battery.state: 7 >> hw.acpi.battery.units: 1 >> hw.acpi.battery.info_expire: 5 >> sysctl hw.acpi.battery =C2=A00.00s user 6.58s system 67% cpu 9.779 total >> >> also note that the life and time are both negative one. >> >> This is on a Lenovo G530 laptop. > -- I always heard that Lenovo/IBM has a great support for open source systems, it seems not. Sad. By the way, you should try to update the bios to the last version, it may helps sometimes. Cheers, --=20 Demelier David