From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Janosch Machowinski Subject: Re: Please help: ACPI not working on DELL Inspiron 1150 Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 22:15:59 +0200 Message-ID: <44B2B57F.1010000@tzi.de> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mailhost.informatik.uni-bremen.de ([134.102.201.18]:41699 "EHLO informatik.uni-bremen.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422800AbWGJUNt (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Jul 2006 16:13:49 -0400 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rusl=E1n_Ledesma_Garza?= Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org Is here a sort of mailloop or why is this mail hitting the list about 5 times ? Greetings Janosch Rusl=E1n Ledesma Garza schrieb: > Can anyone give me a hint on how to fix this? Anything would be usefu= l.=20 > Am I in the right place for reporting ACPI bugs? >=20 >> >Hi. I'm a newbie to linux, but I've been getting this problem ever >> >since I installed it on my computer (I've already tested Fedora Cor= e 5 >> >and Ubuntu 6, both having the same problem). >> > >> >1) I first discovered that my laptop display didn't turn off when t= he >> >lid was closed (I can tell because I can see the glare of the displ= ay >> >through a gap). So I started investigating and found that the lid >> >event is not triggered whenever I close/open the lid (using >> >acpi_listen). But the weirdest part is that the event is reported w= hen >> >doing "cat /proc/acpi/button/lid/LID/state". >> >> is the video driver loaded (drivers/acpi/video.c) >=20 > When doing "lsmod", response is "video 16260 0", so= I > think answer is yes. >=20 >> >> >2) Then I realized no events are reported through acpi_listen, exce= pt >> >for "ac_adapter" event which occurs after resuming the laptop from >> >hibernation. >> >> How about power button events? >=20 > No other events rather than ac_adapter are reported, including button > events. >=20 >> >> >3) I've also found that sometimes the computer freezes when resumin= g >> >from hibernation (I can only confirm this under Ubuntu, I can't >> >remember what happens with Fedora). >> > >> >4) Finally, for some reason gnome power manager doesn't put into >> >hibernation my computer when battery is too low (the only time I >> >tested this was under Ubuntu) and simply runs out of battery. >> > >> >Since #'s 1 & 2 have ocurred under Fedora and Ubuntu, I assume ther= e >> >is some low level problem/incompatibility of ACPI with my computer'= s >> >hardware. Everything works fine under WinXP, and to me power >> >management is a must for my laptop. >> > >> >I've read some stuff about DST's, but sincerelly I didn't undestand >> >much (ie. where does this DST reside? Is it a firmware?), >> >> modified DSDT's are a debugging tool only -- not a path to a "real f= ix". >> Linux should work properly on your laptop without any modifications >> to the firmware. (though it might be a good idea to check with Dell >> to make sure you're running the latest). >=20 > Last time I checked (about 3 weeks ago) the bios firmware was the lat= est > ("A07"). By the way, are DSDT's firmwares then? >=20 >> >> >but I wonder >> >if the fact that my DST says "MSFT" could be the cause of ACPI not >> >working propertly. >> >> :-) This means it was built with the MSFT ASL compiler. Sometimes >> that is an issue, but we try to handle those issues and re-building >> the firmwarwe with Intel's compiler is okay for debugging, but not >> supportable. >> >> build with CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG=3Dy and see if any new dmesg come out. >> You can also boot with "acpi=3Dstrict" if you want to see if >> Linux is already working around issues in your DSDT. >=20 > I've already tried to build my DSDT using Intel's compiler. It showed > several errors (can't remember which ones, but I can do it again if t= his=20 > can > help). I think I fixed them, but could never get to install the modif= ied > DSDT. >=20 > What can I do? >=20 >> >> -Len - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html