Little acpi event windows pop up in KDE

[James Blackwell]

During normal work various little acpi event windows (that look like onscreen
displays) constantly pop up while running KDE, giving false reports on battery
status, plugged in/unplugged, etc. In addition, I get the following sorts of
things filling up my dmesg log:

Asus ACPI: Error reading brightness
Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status
Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status

Disabling acpi solves this problem but disables the ability to throttle the cpu.

This happens in warty (last I tried), breezy (last I tried) and hoary.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Please attach dmesg and make of laptop.

Thanks
chuck

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

I got the same problem in breezy. It's very anoying.
I will add the requested info even if not reporter of the Bug.

root@kassandra:~# tail -5 /var/log/syslog
Sep 16 12:59:22 localhost kernel: [4305978.650000] Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD
status
Sep 16 12:59:22 localhost kernel: [4305978.650000] Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD
status
Sep 16 12:59:22 localhost kernel: [4305978.750000] Asus ACPI: Error reading
brightness
Sep 16 12:59:22 localhost kernel: [4305978.750000] Asus ACPI: Error reading
brightness
.. about 50 x per second in exactly that order..
dmesg is completely messed up and doesn't show anything more.

what is what you need from make??

Laptop is a medion md9580-A aka Asus L8400C

If you need more info let me know

Friedrich

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

Created an attachment (id=3881)
screenshot for "lcd" messagebox

shows infobox "lcd" apearing casually and flash like

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Please include the following info:

dmesg,lscpi and dmidecode. Also include the model of your laptop.

Thanks

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

Created an attachment (id=4090)
textfile with desired Info

As desired: dmesg, lspci, dmidecode

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

The effect seems to apear using kde as windowmanager only. The use of the
kde-libs in kde applications out of windowmaker works as expected.

Bugzilla doesn't keep me up to date. If possible put me in CC list - my status
apparently doesn't allow me to do this myself.

If you need more input let me know.

Friedrich

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

(In reply to comment #6)
> Bugzilla doesn't keep me up to date. If possible put me in CC list - my status
> apparently doesn't allow me to do this myself.

Well, I'm now prepared to join the ubuntu engeneers team - I fount out to hit
the "Enter" key. :o))

Friedrich

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

The issue is kept on NEEDINFO status.
What more info do You need?
I'm up to now not able to use KDE properly

Friedrich

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

This bug has been flagged because it is old and possibly inactive. It may or may
not be fixed in the latest release (Breezy Badger 5.10). It is being marked as
"NEEDSINFO". In two weeks time, if the bug is not updated back to "NEW" and
validated against Breezy, it will be closed.

This is needed in order to help manage the current bug list for the kernel. We
would like to fix all bugs, but need users to test and help with debugging.

If this change was in error for this bug, please respond and make the
appropriate change (or email <email address hidden> if you cannot make the
change).

Thanks for your help.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

If possible, please upgrade to Dapper's 2.6.15-7 kernel. If you do not want to
upgrade to Dapper, then you can also wait for the Dapper Flight 2 CD's, which
are due out within the next few days.

Let me know if this bug still exists with this kernel.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

This is fixed in my git tree as well.

[Ben Collins (ben-collins)]

(In reply to comment #11)
> This is fixed in my git tree as well.

I didn't get anything regarding this from the pull for -8.10. Do you still have it?

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

(In reply to comment #10)
> If possible, please upgrade to Dapper's 2.6.15-7 kernel. If you do not want to
> upgrade to Dapper, then you can also wait for the Dapper Flight 2 CD's, which
> are due out within the next few days.
>
> Let me know if this bug still exists with this kernel.

I started Dapper Flight 2 CD (live-CD) and got the same output on any of the tty
virtual console as described in
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10834#c0 or in
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=10834#c2

unfortunately I locked session (an didn' t succeed a unlock) so, if You need
more Info not already passed let me know.
I will start for new and provide You with desired infos.

Friedrich

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

The patch which disables the message is back in my test tree, ill put in my
stable tree when I get a chance.

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

moved to malone!
Let's see, how mailnotification works

Sorry to all for nagging ;o))

Friedrich

[Lauri Rantakari (rantakari)]

I got this bug too. Using Asus A6R Laptop (celeron m 380, 512, ati x200m)
and Dapper Flight 6 Kubuntu with the latest updates, kernel is 2.6.15-20
It seems though that I only get the error reading LCD status, not the brightness one.
Also the only report that flashes on the screen is LCD status on, LCD status off.

[Lauri Rantakari (rantakari)]

Here's attached lspci and dmidecode. dmesg is just full of lines like
4295790.136000] Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status

[Ben Challenor (ben-challenor)]

I only get LCD On/Off. Laptop is an Asus W3V, kernel 2.6.15-22-386 on the latest Dapper. There's no point attaching dmesg as like the user above, it's full of "Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status".

I can confirm that this does not affect GNOME, only KDE.

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

Probably I should mension, that I didn't experience that behavior on a Knoppix Hd installation (3.8.1 2005-04-08 vmlinuz-2.6.11-1-686) nor on any later Knoppix/Kanotix Live-CD.

Maybe this helps

Friedrich

[Lauri Rantakari (rantakari)]

Using 2.6.15-23-386 kernel, there's no longer the "Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status" in dmesg, but the splash screen still comes up frequently.
I also didn't get this bug when using Kanotix or other KDE distros.

[Michal Pokrywka (mpokrywka)]

This is a patch from http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=10211530&forum_id=33295
that fixes "Asus ACPI: Error reading LCD status" for Asus W3V. I compiled modified asus_acpi module with kernel lcd error reporting enabled and everything went ok.

[Chuck Short (zulcss)]

Have this fix in my git tree will push.

[Friedrich Strohmaier (bitsfritz)]

Dapper drake:

Testing Dapper drake live CD - the original one from shipit - I was not able to get up kde at all, so things changed worse. Give me a note, if there is a chance to solve this problem by providing more Information - namely, what to look for, booting up with the CD.

Maybe one day I will see KDE _and_ Kubuntu working on my box..

:o))

Friedrich

[Leann Ogasawara (leannogasawara)]

Hi All,

This bug was marked "Fix Committed" a while ago but there wasn't any comments as to whether this was "Fix Released". If you are still experiencing this issue, care to test the latest Hardy Heron 8.04 Alpha release - http://www.ubuntu.com/testing ? The Hardy Heron Alpha series is currently under development and contains an updated version of the kernel. You should be able to then test the new kernel via the LiveCD. If you can, please verify if this bug still exists or not and report back your results. Thanks.