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2.6.0-test9 regression: panic on Fn+F7 hotkey

DISCUSSION Karol Kozimor 4 participants 6 messages Oct 27, 2003 – Nov 3, 2003 4 messages not in the archive ACPI

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Hi,
Pressing Fn+F7 to turn the LCD on / off causes 2.6.0-test9 to panic. That's AFAIK the single event that causes such a behaviour, other keys work fine. Reverting the acpi_ec_gpe_query.patchi[1] fixes the issue and makes the kernel run fine.

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/lenb/acpi/patches/test/2.4.22/20031017152411-acpi_ec_gpe_query.patch

Best regards,

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Hello, maybe it could be useful even if the thread is (quite) old.

Quoted 1 line · Karol Kozimor

Pressing Fn+F7 to turn the LCD on / off causes 2.6.0-test9 to panic.

I've an ASUS Centrino M3N, bios 0203A (20030514), Debian testing/unstable, kernel 2.6.0-test9 w/ ACPI 20031002. When I press Fn+F7 the LCD correctly switchs on/off and I don't have any kernel panic.

Just you to know :-)

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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Quoted 9 lines · Luca Capello

Hello, maybe it could be useful even if the thread is (quite) old.

Quoted 1 line · Karol Kozimor

Pressing Fn+F7 to turn the LCD on / off causes 2.6.0-test9 to panic.

I've an ASUS Centrino M3N, bios 0203A (20030514), Debian testing/unstable, kernel 2.6.0-test9 w/ ACPI 20031002. When I press Fn+F7 the LCD correctly switchs on/off and I don't have any kernel panic.

Just you to know :-)

BTW: Is this a general ACPI feature or BIOS-related? I mean, I have a Toshiba Satellite 3000-601 and was NEVER able to switch to/from external vga using linux (no 2.4 and no 2.6 version!). The display freezes, the fan goes on and that was it .... :(

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Quoted 9 lines · Nikolaus Filus
Quoted 8 lines · Luca Capello

Hello, maybe it could be useful even if the thread is (quite) old.

Quoted 1 line · Karol Kozimor

Pressing Fn+F7 to turn the LCD on / off causes 2.6.0-test9 to panic.

I've an ASUS Centrino M3N, bios 0203A (20030514), Debian testing/unstable, kernel 2.6.0-test9 w/ ACPI 20031002. When I press Fn+F7 the LCD correctly switchs on/off and I don't have any kernel panic.

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Just you to know :-)

BTW: Is this a general ACPI feature or BIOS-related? I mean, I have a Toshiba Satellite 3000-601 and was NEVER able to switch to/from external vga using linux (no 2.4 and no 2.6 version!). The display freezes, the fan goes on and that was it .... :(

That depend. For the Satellite 3000-601, this is even the two:
the toshiba will got an acpi event from the embeded controller and the portion of the AML related to will call a smi handler...

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Hello,

Quoted 4 lines · Nikolaus Filus

BTW: Is this a general ACPI feature or BIOS-related? I mean, I have a Toshiba Satellite 3000-601 and was NEVER able to switch to/from external vga using linux (no 2.4 and no 2.6 version!). The display freezes, the fan goes on and that was it .... :(

IIRC, on ASUS laptops you can use Fn+F7 hotkey even if you don't install the 'acpi4asus' package: I just tried removing the 'asus_acpi' module and Fn+F7 works. With the 'asus_acpi' module you've notification of Fn+F7 hotkey pressing in /var/log/acpid, so you can configure an action when you press this hotkey.

I don't remember when I didn't have ACPI on my 2.4.21 what happened: I think it's a BIOS-related feature, not an ACPI one, but I'm not sure.

Thx, bye,
Gismo / Luca

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Thus wrote Luca Capello:

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IIRC, on ASUS laptops you can use Fn+F7 hotkey even if you don't install the 'acpi4asus' package: I just tried removing the 'asus_acpi' module and Fn+F7 works. With the 'asus_acpi' module you've notification of Fn+F7 hotkey pressing in /var/log/acpid, so you can configure an action when you press this hotkey.

Fn+F7 is completely AML-dependent, asus_acpi has nothing to do with it. Best regards,

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