Hi! Link for bios download: http://support.acer-euro.com/drivers/notebook/ferrari3400.html
2010/4/11 Michael Karcher <[email protected]>: > Am Sonntag, den 11.04.2010, 18:41 +0200 schrieb Magnus Alm: >> ======================================================================== >> WARNING! You seem to be running flashrom on a laptop. >> Laptops, notebooks and netbooks are difficult to support and we recommend >> to use the vendor flashing utility. The embedded controller (EC) in these >> machines often interacts badly with flashing. >> See http://www.flashrom.org/Laptops for details. >> ======================================================================== > This is what you are experiencing. > >> After this the keyboard and touchpad stops working. Also one of the >> thermal sensors stops working too. > This, as well as... > >> Apr 11 10:13:33 Ferry kernel: [ 488.402190] atkbd.c: Spurious ACK on >> isa0060/serio0. Some program might be trying access hardware directly. >> Apr 11 10:13:36 Ferry kernel: [ 490.588044] ACPI Exception: AE_TIME, >> Returned by Handler for [EmbeddedControl] (20090903/evregion-424) >> Apr 11 10:13:36 Ferry kernel: [ 490.588076] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): >> Method parse/execution failed [\_TZ_.THRM._TMP] (Node f7010a50), AE_TIME >> Apr 11 10:13:36 Ferry kernel: [ 491.272032] ACPI: EC: input buffer is not >> empty, aborting transaction > ...this points to a crashed embedded controller. > >> Shutting down and removing power cable and battery resets the >> condition so "sudo flashrom" just disables keyboard/touchpad. > Because this resets the embedded controller. > >> I read some abut making support for a laptop but it seemed a bit >> complicated for me. > If you have a vendor BIOS update, the magic to code needed to have the > EC cooperate is included within that update. Do you have a link? > > Regards, > Michael Karcher > _______________________________________________ flashrom mailing list [email protected] http://www.flashrom.org/mailman/listinfo/flashrom
