On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 21:13 +0800, Rodrigo Luiz wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:01 AM, Mattia Dongili <malattia@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > Does booting with acpi_osi=Linux makes things any worse? (it should fix > > the above error but might make some other functionality behave > > differently). > > Or eventually also see if there is a bios upgrade available for your > > laptop. > > > Does the warning message exist when booting the previous kernel? For example: 2.6.28 kernel. Will you please try the following commit patch and see whether this issue still exists? >commit 7b46ecd5fcebf381a7bde966db352d8fb1b8e944 >Author: Len Brown <len.brown@xxxxxxxxx> >Date: Wed Feb 25 18:00:18 2009 -0500 >Revert "ACPI: make some IO ports off-limits to AML" thanks. > Booting with acpi_osi=Linux does not make any changes. Kernel show the > same messages. > > And there is no bios upgrade for my notebook :( > > I forgot to say two things: > > When I loaded the module, a new message appeared (booting with and > without acpi_osi=Linux): > > sony-laptop: Sony Notebook Control Driver v0.6. > input: Sony Vaio Keys as /class/input/input9 > input: Sony Vaio Jogdial as /class/input/input10 > --> [Firmware Bug]: ACPI: ACPI brightness control misses _BQC function > sony-laptop: brightness ignored, must be controlled by ACPI video driver > > > And these errors show in any ACPI events (lid open/close, press power > button ...), not just in Fn-Keys. > -- 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