Bug 138210

Summary:	[acpi] acer aspire 5536 ACPI problems (S3, brightness, hotkeys)
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	dima_bsd
Component:	amd64	Assignee:	freebsd-amd64 (Nobody) <amd64>
Status:	Open ---
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	8.0-BETA3
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description dima_bsd 2009-08-26 20:40:01 UTC

I'm using Acer aspire 5536 notebook. I have several ACPI related issues:
- hotkeys not working (volume +/-, screen brightness +/-, Wi-Fi on/off, sleep button).
- I'm unabled to use S3 power saving mode. If I do S3 without hw.acpi.reset_video then computer wakes up but screen is black - backlight is off.
- I'm unabled to use S3 power saving mode. If I do S3 with hw.acpi.reset_video=1 then computer wakes up, backlight is on but console no do not works (no output to monitor).
- Battery status showing "Remaining time: unknown".


Here can be found additional debug info http://acer5536.times.lv/acpi.tar.gz
Archive contains:
acer_aspire_5536(LX.PAW0C.024).asl (acpidump -dt) 
devinfo_rv.txt (devinfo -rv) 
dmesg_verbose_acpi_enabled.txt (dmesg in verbose) 
sysctl-a-grep-hw.acpi.txt (sysctl -a | grep hw.acpi)

Comment 1 Mark Linimon freebsd_committer

2009-08-27 04:54:06 UTC

Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-amd64->freebsd-acpi

Over to maintainer(s).

Comment 2 Andriy Gapon freebsd_committer

2010-12-05 14:00:59 UTC

Is this still an issue?
Can you try upcoming 8.2 prerelease/beta/RC (whatever is available at the time
of trying) or a CURRENT snapshot?

-- 
Andriy Gapon

Comment 3 dima_bsd 2010-12-11 21:26:11 UTC

> Is this still an issue?
> Can you try upcoming 8.2 prerelease/beta/RC (whatever is available at the
> time of trying) or a CURRENT snapshot?
>
> --
> Andriy Gapon

Hi Andriy

Some of old problems is still here.
I have got today's CURRENT and retested this ACPI stuff again.

- acpicontrol -s 3
In pure console I can put my notebook in S3 state. After that it wakes up if I 
press any keyboard key or notebook's power button, but screen (console) is 
inactive (backlight of the screen is on) and I can not use keyboard. I can 
get console back by pushing power button one more time, or by pussing 
Fn+BrightnessUP key combination. After that my touchpad/mouse is still 
inactive. I can get touchpad back using it's on/off swith (it is connected to 
USB, and after on/off cicle system find it).

In Xorg (KDE3) I can put my notebook in S3 state. After that it wakes up if I 
press any keyboard key or notebook's power button, but screen (console) is 
inactive (backlight is off) and I can not use keyboard. I can get console 
back by pushing power button one more time, or by pussing Fn+BrightnessUP key 
combination. After that my touchpad/mouse is still inactive. I can get 
touchpad back using it's on/off swith.

In both cases sysctl parametr: hw.acpi.reset_video=1

In both cases I can see this error message on console:
ACPI Error: No handler or method for GPE[0x 6], disabling event 
(20101013/evgpe-734)


- Functional keys (brightness/sleep/mute/volume)
This Fn keys still don't work nativly. I'm missing brightness control and 
sleep. All other keys are working now using different "keyboard tools" from 
ports. I can see that brightness is working while I'm in BIOS, but it stops 
working just after FreeBSD kernel is loaded...


- Battery status
Looks like that battery indicators works now! I can see from sysctl output 
mesurments or capacity, remained time and status of power and battery.


uname -a
FreeBSD darktower.local.home 9.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 9.0-CURRENT #0: Sat Dec 11 
17:38:35 EET 2010     root@darktower.local.home:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/CURRENT  
amd64

GENERIC with addition of:
ident           CURRENT
options         ROUTETABLES=2
options         RADIX_MPATH
options         ATA_CAM
device          ahci

and without WITNESS/INVARIANTS

Comment 4 Eitan Adler freebsd_committer

2017-12-31 08:00:22 UTC

For bugs matching the following criteria:

Status: In Progress Changed: (is less than) 2014-06-01

Reset to default assignee and clear in-progress tags.

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