On Wednesday 15 November 2006 02:03, David Brownell wrote: > dmesg reports to me stuff like > > ACPI Exception (evregion-0424): AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20060707] > ACPI Exception (dswexec-0458): AE_TIME, While resolving operands for [OpcodeName unavailable] [20060707] > ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPC0.BAT1._BIF] (Node ffff8100020368d0), AE_TIME > ACPI Exception (acpi_battery-0148): AE_TIME, Evaluating _BIF [20060707] > ACPI: read EC, IB not empty > ACPI Exception (evregion-0424): AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] [20060707] > ACPI Exception (dswexec-0458): AE_TIME, While resolving operands for [OpcodeName unavailable] [20060707] > ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node ffff810002032d10), AE_TIME AE_TIME is generally used for timeout situations -- ie didn't get a semaphore within a certain period. Any change if you boot with "ec_intr=0"? thanks, -Len > It never used to complain at all. This is an amd64 laptop, and related symptoms > include > > - kpowersave not being able to monitor the batter or AC adapter correctly; > leading to catastrophes like laptop powering itself off with no warning, > loss of work, filesystem needing log recovery, and so forth. > > - Serious fan action. Recent kernels seemed to finally be doing sane things > so that e.g. just editing text kept the CPU cool ... but now it's on almost > all the time, CPU is very hot. > > What's an AE_TIME? > > I'm not quite sure where these problems crept in, but I never saw such stuff with > 2.6.18 at all. > > - Dave > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
