Comment 85 for bug 578506

This bug still present in all kernel version that i have used before the
first occurence.

The solution remain ever the same that i have posted before.

2013/1/18 Grecu Ionut Florin <email address hidden>

> I'm waiting for the same thing.. Now i'm back to 3.5.0-21-generic kernel
> since the 3.7.1 wasn't stable enough.
> I have an acer aspire 5930G. Maybe there's something with the laptop's
> BIOS... I could not find an update since v. 1.24 from 2008.
> I've read in this thread about patching, but I didn't quite understand how
> to do it..
> Hope to fix this as soon as possible!
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/578506
>
> Title:
> [Kernel] ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction
>
> Status in “linux” package in Ubuntu:
> Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Hi,
> on upgrade to 10.04 version.
>
> After few minuts of use apci stop to wrok (don't recognize ac/dc or
> battery, don't change lcd blacklight, etcc..) and start to flood dmes
> with this messages:
>
> [ 767.208058] ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction
> [ 767.208072] ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for
> [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/evregion-424)
> [ 767.208106] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
> [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_.GBST] (Node f7017030), AE_TIME
> [ 767.208197] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed
> [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_.BAT0._BST] (Node f7017120), AE_TIME
> [ 767.208277] ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST
> (20090903/battery-393)
>
>
> Trying to reboot (or to shutdown and restart) my pc don't want to boot!
> Unique solution: get out the battery and replace.
>
> PC: notebook acer aspire 5930G
>
> lspci
> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset Memory
> Controller Hub (rev 07)
> 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 4 Series Chipset PCI
> Express Graphics Port (rev 07)
> 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #4 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #5 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #6 (rev 03)
> 00:1a.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
> Controller #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) HD Audio
> Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 1 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.1 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 2 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 3 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 4 (rev 03)
> 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) PCI Express
> Port 5 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #2 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB UHCI
> Controller #3 (rev 03)
> 00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) USB2 EHCI
> Controller #1 (rev 03)
> 00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev 93)
> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation ICH9M LPC Interface Controller
> (rev 03)
> 00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation ICH9M/M-E SATA AHCI
> Controller (rev 03)
> 00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801I (ICH9 Family) SMBus Controller
> (rev 03)
> 01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation G98 [GeForce 9300M
> GS] (rev a1)
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8071 PCI-E
> Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 16)
> 03:00.0 Network controller: Intel Corporation Wireless WiFi Link 5100
>
>
> uname -a
> Linux luca-laptop 2.6.32-22-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Wed Apr 28 13:27:30
> UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux
>
> ProblemType: Bug
> DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
> Package: linux-headers-2.6.32-21-generic 2.6.32-21.32
> Regression: Yes
> Reproducible: No
> ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-19.56-generic
> Uname: Linux 2.6.31-19-generic i686
> AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.20.
> Architecture: i386
> AudioDevicesInUse:
> USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
> /dev/snd/controlC0: luca 5325 F.... pulseaudio
> /dev/snd/pcmC0D0p: luca 5325 F...m pulseaudio
> CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] Nessun file o directory
> Card0.Amixer.info:
> Card hw:0 'Intel'/'HDA Intel at 0xf6500000 irq 21'
> Mixer name : 'Nvidia MCP78 HDMI'
> Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,1025013f,00100202
> HDA:11c11040,11c10001,00100200 HDA:10de0003,10de0101,00100000'
> Controls : 39
> Simple ctrls : 21
> Date: Mon May 10 23:25:40 2010
> Frequency: Once a day.
> HibernationDevice: RESUME=UUID=96cdf22d-d1a9-4285-818c-c7751f7b8bd4
> MachineType: Acer Aspire 5930
> ProcCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-19-generic
> root=UUID=eb29c17b-d483-46a9-853c-0236d0829819 ro quiet splash
> ProcEnviron:
> LANGUAGE=it_IT:it:en_GB:en
> LANG=it_IT.utf8
> SHELL=/bin/bash
> RelatedPackageVersions: linux-firmware 1.34
> SourcePackage: linux
> WpaSupplicantLog:
>
> dmi.bios.date: 08/01/2008
> dmi.bios.vendor: Phoenix Technologies LTD
> dmi.bios.version: V1.19
> dmi.board.name: Eiger
> dmi.board.vendor: Acer
> dmi.board.version: Rev
> dmi.chassis.type: 10
> dmi.chassis.vendor: Acer
> dmi.chassis.version: N/A
> dmi.modalias:
> dmi:bvnPhoenixTechnologiesLTD:bvrV1.19:bd08/01/2008:svnAcer:pnAspire5930:pvr0100:rvnAcer:rnEiger:rvrRev:cvnAcer:ct10:cvrN/A:
> dmi.product.name: Aspire 5930
> dmi.product.version: 0100
> dmi.sys.vendor: Acer
>
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Luca Zenatti
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