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Re: Problems with battery charging



Matthew Dawson:
> 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.

Probably it is.

  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, 

`dmesg` does not curse the BIOS, as can I see:
> ~$ dmesg | grep -i bios
> [    0.000000] BIOS-provided physical RAM map:
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000000000 - 000000000009ec00 (usable)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 000000000009ec00 - 00000000000a0000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000000e0000 - 0000000000100000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000000100000 - 0000000066c5c000 (usable)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066c5c000 - 0000000066cb0000 (ACPI NVS)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066cb0000 - 0000000066cd1000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066cd1000 - 0000000066ce2000 (ACPI NVS)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066ce2000 - 0000000066d06000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066d06000 - 0000000066d07000 (usable)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066d07000 - 0000000066d08000 (ACPI NVS)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066d08000 - 0000000066d0d000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066d0d000 - 0000000066d13000 (usable)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066d13000 - 0000000066d18000 (ACPI NVS)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066d18000 - 0000000066d1a000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066d1a000 - 0000000066d21000 (ACPI NVS)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066d21000 - 0000000066d48000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066d48000 - 0000000066d8b000 (ACPI NVS)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 0000000066d8b000 - 0000000066f00000 (usable)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec00000 - 00000000fec01000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fec10000 - 00000000fec11000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fed00000 - 00000000fed01000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fed61000 - 00000000fed71000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fed80000 - 00000000fed90000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000]  BIOS-e820: 00000000fef00000 - 0000000100000000 (reserved)
> [    0.000000] DMI: ASUSTeK Computer INC. 1015BXO/1015BXO, BIOS 0604 01/12/2012
> [    0.000000] Calgary: detecting Calgary via BIOS EBDA area
> [   39.742766] asus_wmi: BIOS WMI version: 0.9
> [   44.103032] ATOM BIOS: Ontario

and filing a bug may be in order.
> 
> Matthew
> 
> 

I filed it: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=697175
They think that it is an adapter problem... Probably, but it seems to me
that I have problems with compatibility between my hardware and software.
Probably, it needs to me to try upgrading to sid?


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