thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: Outdated ThinkPad BIOS/EC firmware
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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linux (Ubuntu) |
Won't Fix
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Regression - no such problem with 10.10, shows up repeatedly with 11.04. How do I turn the error messages off since the pc is obviously still running?
Thanks, Jerry
ProblemType: KernelOops
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: linux-image-
Regression: Yes
Reproducible: Yes
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-7-generic i686
AlsaVersion: Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 1.0.23.
Annotation: Your system might become unstable now and might need to be restarted.
AplayDevices:
**** List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices ****
card 0: I82801CAICH3 [Intel 82801CA-ICH3], device 0: Intel ICH [Intel 82801CA-ICH3]
Subdevices: 1/1
Subdevice #0: subdevice #0
Architecture: i386
AudioDevicesInUse:
USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
/dev/snd/
CRDA: Error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory
Card0.Amixer.info:
Card hw:0 'I82801CAICH3'
Mixer name : 'Analog Devices AD1881A'
Components : 'AC97a:41445348'
Controls : 31
Simple ctrls : 21
Card29.Amixer.info:
Card hw:29 'ThinkPadEC'
Mixer name : 'ThinkPad EC (unknown)'
Components : ''
Controls : 2
Simple ctrls : 1
Card29.
Simple mixer control 'Console',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 14
Mono: Playback 0 [0%] [on]
Date: Sat Apr 2 13:38:50 2011
Failure: oops
HibernationDevice: RESUME=
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Beta i386 (20110330)
IwConfig:
lo no wireless extensions.
eth0 no wireless extensions.
irda0 no wireless extensions.
Lsusb:
Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 093a:2510 Pixart Imaging, Inc. Optical Mouse
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
MachineType: IBM 2656SVT
PccardctlIdent:
Socket 0:
no product info available
PccardctlStatus:
Socket 0:
no card
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=
RelatedPackageV
linux-
linux-
linux-firmware 1.49
RfKill:
SourcePackage: linux
Title: thinkpad_acpi: WARNING: Outdated ThinkPad BIOS/EC firmware
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 12/18/2003
dmi.bios.vendor: IBM
dmi.bios.version: 1FETF0WW (3.100)
dmi.board.name: 2656SVT
dmi.board.vendor: IBM
dmi.board.version: Not Available
dmi.chassis.
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: IBM
dmi.chassis.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnIBM:
dmi.product.name: 2656SVT
dmi.product.
dmi.sys.vendor: IBM
Updating the EC bios should resolve the issue.
http:// www-307. ibm.com/ pc/support/ site.wss/ document. do?sitestyle= lenovo& lndocid= MIGR-41535
You will likely have to use cab extractor to pull the .img file out and then convert that .img to an .iso to burn to CD.