Bug 198177
| Summary: | Acer SW5-173 Battery not detected | ||
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| Product: | Drivers | Reporter: | Andrea Tosti (andrea.tosti) |
| Component: | I2C | Assignee: | Drivers/I2C virtual user (drivers-i2c) |
| Status: | RESOLVED CODE_FIX | ||
| Severity: | high | CC: | rui.zhang |
| Priority: | P1 | ||
| Hardware: | Intel | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Kernel Version: | 4.9.66-1-MANJARO | Subsystem: | |
| Regression: | No | Bisected commit-id: | |
| Attachments: |
dmesg -l err output
acpidump output acpidump output (using root) dmesg output Extracted ACPI tables iasl -d dsdt.dat output DSDT compilation output upower -d output |
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Created attachment 261205 [details]
acpidump output
Comment on attachment 261205 [details] acpidump output >Could not open table file: /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/SSDT6 >Could not get ACPI tables, AE_ACCESS edit: i attached another acpidump (this time i used root) Created attachment 261207 [details]
acpidump output (using root)
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dmesg output
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Extracted ACPI tables
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iasl -d dsdt.dat output
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DSDT compilation output
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upower -d output
Scope (_SB.PCI0.I2C1)
{
Device (BAT1)
{
Name (_HID, EisaId ("PNP0C0A") /* Control Method Battery */) // _HID: Hardware ID
Name (_UID, One) // _UID: Unique ID
Name (_DEP, Package (0x01) // _DEP: Dependencies
{
I2C1
})
Name (_PCL, Package (0x01) // _PCL: Power Consumer List
{
_SB
})
Name (BMDL, Zero)
Name (BASC, One)
Name (BFFW, Zero)
Method (_STA, 0, NotSerialized) // _STA: Status
{
Return (0x1F)
}
This battery is a I2C device, and let' check if the battery problem still exists after the I2C errors resolved.
Good, now my question is: can i help somehow to solve this problem sooner or later? I don't know where to start sincerely. I changed some related parts in my DSDT to see if it was accepted by the kernel:
Method (_BIF, 0, NotSerialized) {
Return (Package {
0x01, // power unit: mAh
0x0E10, // capacity
0x0E10, // last full capacity
0x01, // rechargeable
0x2A30, // voltage
0x6C, // warning voltage
0x4B, // low voltage
0x08, // steps [warning to low]
0x09, // steps [warning to full]
"Li-Ion 3600mA ", // model number
"jfrimmel", // serial number
"Lion", // type
"Acer " // OEM
})
And now, the Kernel shows the "serial number" "jfrimmel" and the Vendor "Acer". So the static data is transmitted fine.
The same works, if I change the _BST-method t a method, that returns static data:
Method (_BST, 0, NotSerialized) {
Return (Package {
0x00,
0xDEAD,
0x0E10, // reports 100% charge
0x2A30
})
}
These values are correct transmitted and displayed.
But none of the I2C-transmits are working.
I guess that the eror is somewhere in methods like "ECNR()", these are responsible for the I2C transmission.
But until now, I cannot get it working
The problem persists even with Kernels 4.16.4-1 and 4.17.r180422. No new BIOS updates from Acer. As a fix someone made this kernel module https://github.com/jfrimmel/Acer-Switch-Battery-Module I tested it and works flawlessly, i reccomend this to anyone. Today i installed the newest versions of Manjaro KDE (Kernel 4.19.28-1-MANJARO) and KaOS and they provide battery drivers out of box, so this is even better. Really good, marking as RESOLVED |
Created attachment 261203 [details] dmesg -l err output My laptop's battery (Acer Switch 11V SW5-173) is not recognized under Linux. Everything else (touchscreen, touchpad, brightness, wifi, bluetooth) works out of the box Intel Core M-5Y10C, 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD Bios: 1.09 (latest avaiable), using UEFI mode. Battery: 4420 mAh Lithium Polymer The battery is detected correctly in Windows 10 (i can see remaining battery time). I tried the following kernels, all tested under Manjaro, but none of them helped me with the battery: 4.15.r171130.g9e0600f-1 4.14.3-1 4.13.16-2 4.12.14-1 4.11.12_rt16-1 4.9.65_rt56-1 4.9.66-1 4.4.103-1 4.1.46-1 3.18.85-1 3.16.51-1 I also tried different distributions like the latest Fedora, Ubuntu 14, Ubuntu 16, Ubuntu 17, latest KDE Neon without success. I am currently using Manjaro KDE with all packages up to date. I attached some information, let me know if you need something else. Thank you in advance.