On 11/14/08, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Alan Jenkins wrote: >> Maxim Levitsky wrote: >>> I have just bought an Aspire one A150, XP version, >>> as it was the only available here, and installed ubuntu on it. >>> >>> Bugs I discovered so far: >>> >>> >>> ** 1 - embedded controler works in polling mode, due to this: >>> >>> [ 0.708571] ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to >>> interrupt mode >>> [ 1.224043] ACPI: EC: missing confirmations, switch off interrupt >>> mode. >>> >>> >>> Maybe this is the reason for the fact that gnome power manager freezes >>> when I unplug >>> the AC, and freezes often when I try to see battery status. >>> >>> >>> (Note: same is seen on my acer aspire 5720) >> >> That sounds like a known issue. It has been resolved by "ACPI: EC: revert >> msleep patch". Happily Len submitted it for mainline this week. You will >> also find it if you try the acpi-test git tree. We're all hoping 2.6.28 >> will be much improved in terms of reliable operation of different ECs :). >> >>> ** 2 - wireless: not to mention the fact that ath5k wasn't installed by >>> default in ubuntu... >>> wireless more or less works, but kernel log is full of backtraces. >> >> Well, that doesn't tell us much. Did they still happen after upgrading to >> 2.6.28-rc3? Can we see them? >> >>> Was able to connect to my WPA2 access point. >>> Sometimes wireless fails completely, especially after suspend to ram. >>> Advanced features like monitor/injection work, but when I changed the >>> card's >>> mac address it stopped working. >>> I also noticed that if I then start airodump, then wireless works with >>> new mac. >>> >>> >>> >>> ** 3 - internal mic doesn't work. >>> tried model=acer, model=auto. >>> Overall it seems that alsa misprograms O/B realteck >>> codec. >>> I talk about this later. >>> Have same issue on my acer 5720 >>> >>> >>> >>> ** 4 - wireless led doesn't work. >>> ath5k devs, can you fix this? >>> >>> >>> ** 5 - coretemp doesn't show cpu temperature, >>> I have seen somewhere that atom support same thermal diode as core2 >>> and only patch to detect it is needed. >>> Please include such path in 2.6.28 if exists. > Patch for that does exits, but doesn't apply to latest git, > I will apply in manually. > This should go to .28 I think, this is trivial thing. > > >>> >>> >>> ** 6 - both card readers are missing from lspci, is this normal? >> >> A similar bug has been reported as a regression: >> >> <http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11828> >> >> so one assumes that it worked on the machines with linux pre-installed. >> Hopefully without requiring any hacks. >> >> It seems that for now a workaround may be to pass the option >> debug_quirks=1 to the sdhci module... >> >> <http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122509648027303&w=2> >> >> ...or that it may help if you insert an SD card before booting. >> >> Apparently the reporter also investigated pcie hotplug. Probably the BIOS >> doesn't provide the normal support. You can try "modprobe pciehp >> pciehp_force=1", maybe it helps the kernel discover the devices. It >> worked for something else on my EeePC. But then it will reportedly >> disappear the ethernet controller. >> >> However, at the moment pciehp can cause delays of 10s of seconds during >> resume. > Got, a SD card, and with help of pciehp it works almost perfectly in both > slots. > Almost, due to the fact that R/O switch is ignored. > (Just as I expected, a s/w switch, couldn't they think more, and include a > hardware switch?) > On my main acer R/O switch works. > > However I have to use pciehp_force=1, I understand that probably acpi tables > are broken, > but could you add a workaround (dmi quirk?) > > Also, there is a acpiphp driver, which doesn't work here. > pciehp is supposed to support so called native mode, don't yet know what it > is, > but here it still uses acpi. Matthew Garret tells me the Aspire One should be handled by acpiphp patches he posted on the linux acpi mailing list recently. -- A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? >> A: Top-posting. >>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? -- 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
