From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zhang Rui Subject: Re: ACPI error messages Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 08:59:22 +0800 Message-ID: <1275440362.9119.7219.camel@rzhang1-desktop> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com ([134.134.136.20]:30498 "EHLO mga02.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756464Ab0FBA6y (ORCPT ); Tue, 1 Jun 2010 20:58:54 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Stern Cc: "linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org" On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 21:11 +0800, Alan Stern wrote: > My kernel log is full of hundreds of messages like these: > > ACPI Exception: AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT, Index (000000046) is beyond end of object (20090903/exoparg2-445) > ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC0_.STBR] (Node f701c918), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT > ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.VGA_.LCDD._BCM] (Node f7017b58), AE_AML_BUFFER_LIMIT > ACPI Error: Evaluating _BCM failed (20090903/video-528) > This sounds like a win7 compatibility issue that I've seen before. please try boot option acpi_osi="!Windows 2009" and see if it helps. BTW, it would be great if you can attach the acpidump of this laptop and the dmesg output after boot. thanks, rui > This is on an ASUS UL20A laptop (ICH9 chipset) with Fedora-12 (kernel > 2.6.32.12). What is the reason for these error messages? Can anything > be done to fix them? > > Thanks, > > Alan Stern > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html