ACPI & battery issues

[David DEMELIER]

2010/10/2 Eitan Adler <lists at eitanadler.com>:
> On Sat, Oct 2, 2010 at 4:01 PM,  <four.harrisons at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> 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.
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> 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?
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>> 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
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>> repeatedly in dmesg
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>> 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  0.00s user 2.18s system 72% cpu 3.006 total
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>> % 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  0.00s user 6.58s system 67% cpu 9.779 total
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>> also note that the life and time are both negative one.
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>> 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,

-- 
Demelier David