Bug 9697

Summary:	No battery on laptop because of "No handler for Region [EC__]" acpi error
Product:	ACPI	Reporter:	Mark (makalsky)
Component:	EC	Assignee:	Alexey Starikovskiy (astarikovskiy)
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	acpi-bugzilla, bunk, makalsky
Priority:	P1
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.24-rc6	Subsystem:
Regression:	Yes	Bisected commit-id:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	9243
Attachments:	dmesg output exact kernel version acpidump my dsdt working 2.6.23 dmesg

Description Mark 2008-01-05 14:37:49 UTC

Most recent kernel where this bug did not occur: 2.6.23
Distribution:Ubuntu,Fedora,Debian
Hardware Environment:MSI ex600,pr200 and GX700 laptops
Problem Description:
The battery is not found because of:
[   25.866703] ACPI Error (evregion-0316): No handler for Region [EC__] (f7c108e8) [EmbeddedControl] [20070126]
[   25.866708] ACPI Error (exfldio-0289): Region EmbeddedControl(3) has no handler [20070126]
[   25.866713] ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_SB_.PCI0.SBRG.EC__.BAT1._STA] (Node f7c13210), AE_NOT_EXIST

Steps to reproduce: The problem just appears by using the mentioned hardware.

Comment 1 Mark 2008-01-05 14:39:57 UTC

Created attachment 14297 [details]
dmesg output

Comment 2 Mark 2008-01-05 14:40:26 UTC

Created attachment 14298 [details]
exact kernel version

Comment 3 Mark 2008-01-05 14:41:34 UTC

Created attachment 14299 [details]
acpidump

Comment 4 Mark 2008-01-05 14:44:02 UTC

Created attachment 14300 [details]
my dsdt

Comment 5 Adrian Bunk 2008-01-05 14:53:50 UTC

Please attach the dmesg for the working 2.6.23 kernel.

Comment 6 Mark 2008-01-05 15:03:43 UTC

Created attachment 14301 [details]
working 2.6.23 dmesg

Comment 7 Alexey Starikovskiy 2008-01-07 08:50:24 UTC

Please check if the patch from 9627 helps.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 9627 ***

Comment 8 Mark 2008-01-07 12:50:27 UTC

Yup, thanks, the patch from http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9627 does the job.