Re: Re: tp_smapi 0.40-9 incompatible with thinkpad w520?

2011-05-25 Thread CHERN Yen-Chieh
Many thanks for the info. YC On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 11:16 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Tue, 24 May 2011, CHERN Yen-Chieh wrote: > > power adapter connected, the laptop cannot charge the battery! I think > > the incompatibility of tp_smapi with bios gives the wrong control on > > b

Re: tp_smapi 0.40-9 incompatible with thinkpad w520?

2011-05-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 24 May 2011, CHERN Yen-Chieh wrote: > power adapter connected, the laptop cannot charge the battery! I think > the incompatibility of tp_smapi with bios gives the wrong control on > battery charge threshold. If the driver did not manage to load in the first place, it should have had no ef

Re: Re: tp_smapi 0.40-9 incompatible with thinkpad w520

2011-05-24 Thread CHERN Yen-Chieh
Who said anything about a bug in the thinkpad firmware? Until I get to see the dmi string, I don't know what is happening. It is far more likely that the driver needs to be updated. Sorry for the misunderstanding. I got a wrong idea about the problem. I know that I should

Re: tp_smapi 0.40-9 incompatible with thinkpad w520

2011-05-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Tue, 24 May 2011, CHERN Yen-Chieh wrote: > Yeah, thanks for your analysis. So do you know how to report the problem > to lenovo so hardware engineers there could be aware of this problem or Who said anything about a bug in the thinkpad firmware?Until I get to see the dmi string, I don't kno

Re: tp_smapi 0.40-9 incompatible with thinkpad w520?

2011-05-24 Thread CHERN Yen-Chieh
Hi, all, Another symptom, although on the panel the gnome power management applet indicates the battery is charging, actually it is not. Now with the power adapter connected, the laptop cannot charge the battery! I think the incompatibility of tp_smapi with bios gives the wrong control on battery

Re: Re: tp_smapi 0.40-9 incompatible with thinkpad w520

2011-05-24 Thread CHERN Yen-Chieh
Hi, Henrique, Yeah, thanks for your analysis. So do you know how to report the problem to lenovo so hardware engineers there could be aware of this problem or should we wait for updates of tp_smapi from debian community? Many thanks! YC -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: tp_smapi 0.40-9 incompatible with thinkpad w520

2011-05-24 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
> [6.385415] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad BIOS 8BET44WW (1.24 ), EC unknown Yuck. It is failing the DMI version string checks. > [8.814881] thinkpad_ec: no ThinkPad embedded controller! thinkpad_ec is less nice about it than thinkpad-acpi. No W520 in thinkwiki DMI ID, so I have no idea what

Re: tp_smapi 0.40-9 incompatible with thinkpad w520

2011-05-23 Thread CHERN Yen-Chieh
Hi, there, I have new info for the problem I have encountered. I've already updated bios to the latest, so the method in troubleshooting section of thinkwiki.org about tp_smapi is not working. usr@debian-thinkpadw520:~$ dmesg |grep thinkpad [6.385411] thinkpad_acpi: ThinkPad ACPI Extras v0.24