Re: Problems with battery charging
On December 20, 2012 10:32:29 PM Ivan Zavarzin wrote:
> Good everning,
>
> I have the next problem with my Asus EEE PC 1015BX which works under
> Debian Wheezy AMD64.
> When it is running only on battery power or when it is running from
> electrick network with full battery I have no such problem.
> But when its battery is charging the kernel send the next strange
> messages many, many times:
> kernel: [12434.534788] asus_wmi: Unknown key 57 pressed
> kernel: [12444.458087] asus_wmi: Unknown key 58 pressed
> When I can see those messages sended in my console the pic of
> xfce4-power-manager 1.0.11 under X11 (xfce4 v. 4.8.0.3) flashes many
> times (changing image from icon "battery is charged" to icon "battery is
> discharged" and back).
> In this time my mouse under X11 is hanging until the time when those
> kernel messages will be stopped. So, it is impossible to work in that time.
> What is this and how I can fix it?
This sounds like a bug in the ACPI handling of your laptop. My guess is that
those keys are meant to be the ACPI system telling your OS that it's
discharging (and that some stat is different). Make sure your BIOS is up to
date, and filing a bug may be in order.
Matthew
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