This bug affects also my Acer 5930G. It does not happen at every boot. Last time I received the following messages in kern.log:
about 15 minutes after boot I received
May 10 16:22:23 francesco kernel: [ 1040.834972] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 50624 nsec
and after 1 minute
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.196100] ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.696097] ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.696110] ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/evregion-424)
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.696142] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_.GBST] (Node f7417030), AE_TIME
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.696235] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.LPCB.EC0_.BAT0._BST] (Node f7417120), AE_TIME
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.696436] ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST (20090903/battery-393)
with this last block repeating many many times.
My OS is a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel 2.6.32-22-generic-pae.
This bug affects also my Acer 5930G. It does not happen at every boot. Last time I received the following messages in kern.log:
about 15 minutes after boot I received
May 10 16:22:23 francesco kernel: [ 1040.834972] CE: hpet increasing min_delta_ns to 50624 nsec
and after 1 minute
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.196100] ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction evregion- 424) PCI0.LPCB. EC0_.GBST] (Node f7417030), AE_TIME PCI0.LPCB. EC0_.BAT0. _BST] (Node f7417120), AE_TIME battery- 393)
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.696097] ACPI: EC: input buffer is not empty, aborting transaction
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.696110] ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.696142] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.696235] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.
May 10 17:33:32 francesco kernel: [ 5309.696436] ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, Evaluating _BST (20090903/
with this last block repeating many many times.
My OS is a fresh install of Ubuntu 10.04, Kernel 2.6.32- 22-generic- pae.
Please tell me if I need to attach other files.
Gabriele Bianchi