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From: Sebastian Riemer <sebastian.riemer@profitbricks.com>
To: Justin Chudgar <justin@justinzane.com>
Cc: platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org, joeyli <jlee@suse.com>
Subject: Re: Acer Aspire 5733 - acer_wmi problems
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 10:59:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50B33D87.9080904@profitbricks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50AFD2B6.6050502@justinzane.com>

Hi Justin,

the disassembled DSDT always helps as a first step.

1. install "iasl" or get and compile the source:
https://www.acpica.org/downloads/unix_source_code.php
2. cp /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT dsdt.aml
3. iasl -d dsdt.aml

This creates a "dsdt.dsl" file. This is the interesting one.

Furthermore, check the kernel bugzilla if there isn't a similar bug
somewhere already.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org

This article is also good literature how WMI drivers work:
http://lwn.net/Articles/391230/

Also check for latest /lib/udev/keymaps/ and
/lib/udev/keymaps/force-release/. On this page this helped e.g. on a
Samsung laptop: http://blog.nonobis.nl/?p=11

Cheers,
Sebastian


On 23.11.2012 20:47, Justin Chudgar wrote:
> I have an Acer Aspire 5733 that is having issues with:
> - <fn>+<brightness/volume/suspend/etc.> key combos not working
> - screen not resuming when unplugging/replugging a system while system
> continues operating
>
> Could someone please help me determine how to triage these and direct me
> on what info the maintainer needs from me.
>
> Thank you.
>
> ##### Excerpt from lshw #####
>    description: Notebook
>     product: Aspire 5733 (Calpella_CRB)
>     vendor: Acer
>     version: V1.07
>     serial:
> NXRN5AA00221703D023400                                                                           
>
>     width: 64
> bits                                                                                           
>
>     capabilities: smbios-2.6 dmi-2.6
> vsyscall32                                                              
>     configuration: boot=normal chassis=notebook family=Intel_Mobile
> sku=Calpella_CRB
> uuid=F5E6A1B5-81FF-11E1-A5D0-DC0EA1AC38D5                                                                                             
>
>  
> *-core                                                                                                     
>
>        description: Motherboard
>        product: Aspire 5733
>        vendor: Acer
>        physical id: 0
>        version: V1.07
>        serial: Base Board Serial Number
>        slot: Base Board Chassis Location
>      *-firmware
>           description: BIOS
>           vendor: Acer
>           physical id: 0
>           version: V1.07
>           date: 11/07/2011
>           size: 1MiB
>           capacity: 1472KiB
>           capabilities: pci upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect edd
> int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200
> int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int9keyboard int10video acpi usb
> biosbootspecification
>

  reply	other threads:[~2012-11-26  9:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-11-23 19:47 Acer Aspire 5733 - acer_wmi problems Justin Chudgar
2012-11-26  9:59 ` Sebastian Riemer [this message]
2012-11-26 10:32   ` Sebastian Riemer
     [not found] ` <50B12F0F.9010300@justinzane.com>
     [not found]   ` <1353825698.21227.745.camel@linux-s257.site>
     [not found]     ` <50B2C063.3030104@justinzane.com>
2012-11-26 18:28       ` Fwd: " joeyli

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