I’ve just got a Lenovo ThinkPad S440 and would like to test
FreeBSD
10.2-BETA2 on it. I’ve tried with the UEFI memstick image
(FreeBSD-10.2-BETA2-amd64-uefi-mini-memstick.img.xz).
Unfortunately,
shortly after the installer starts, the screen fills with
errors
related to ACPI thermal zones:
ACPI Exception: AE_BAD_ADDRESS, Returned by Handler for
[EmbeddedControl] (20150515/evregion-312) S
(20150515/psparse-552)
I have tested some features of the acpi_ibm, some do not
work: fan
control, for example, but I’m not sure I’m doing it right
and this
is an issue for later.
I’ve created a PR with the information asked for in the
ACPI chapter
of the handbook:
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=201678
Best regards,
Juan
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IIRC, fan control has not worked since the days of the T61.
Newer BIOS
end EC don't seem to work. The "ACPI Exception: AE_BAD_ADDRESS" has
shown up on various systems for a while.It's reportedly harmless.
Thanks Kevin. Could you please give me a hint for silencing these
errors? They are making very hard to use the installer or live USB
for testing purposes. I guess the BIOS will take care of thermal and
fan control.
You could edit the syslogd configuration, but that does not really make
sense when running the installer. Lars' suggestion for using another VTY
will work, though.
When I was getting these errors, I only saw a burst of them earlier in
the boot process. Sounds like you are seeing s different manifestation. :-(
Yes, three error lines every 2-3 seconds… :(
Brightness is finally working on most or all. Thermal should
show up in
hw.acpi and dev.cpu.
Brightness levels are correctly shown (1-100) after loading the
acpi_video kernel module, but I cannot change them. Maybe it’s the
Haswell chip not responding. I’m going to try CURRENT.
Haswell is still officially not supported, so it is a possibility.
Brightness works on Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. Last I heard, Haswell
support is hoped for in September. I believe that i915 support in
CURRENT is very close to that in 10-STABLE.
How are you attempting to adjust brightness? Keys or the sysctl? At
least on T and X systems, the rightness keys (and any other in blue)
require the Fn key to work. Volume and mute are about the only ones that
work without Fn on my system, as they are dedicated keys on T systems,
Have you tried setting the brightness with sysctl?
hw.acpi.video.lcd0.brightness.
If I understand well the documentation, for keys to work I have to play
with them in devd. I have not had the time to explore it. Setting values
directly with sysctl between 0 and 100 do work, but do not change the
LCD brightness. Funny enough, I can toggle between 49 and 51 with the Fn
keys, no more, no less. I guess I have to wait for Haswell support.
Thermal hw.acpi sysctls show bogus values, but dev.cpu works after
loading the coretemp kernel module.
As far as I know, most hw.acpi.thermal values are set by the system at
boot and are fixed. That includes all prefaced with '_'. The ones
reporting '-1' simply indicate a lack of support on your system. Here
are my values:
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TSP: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TC2: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TC1: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 98.0C
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: 47.0C
hw.acpi.thermal.user_override: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10
hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0
Thanks, I understand. Mine are similar, excepting an absolute zero
(-273.2C):
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TSP: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TC2: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._TC1: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._ACx: -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1 -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._CRT: 105.0C
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._HOT: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0._PSV: -1
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.thermal_flags: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.passive_cooling: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.active: -2
hw.acpi.thermal.tz0.temperature: -273.2C
hw.acpi.thermal.user_override: 0
hw.acpi.thermal.polling_rate: 10
hw.acpi.thermal.min_runtime: 0
A bit of good news is that support for ThinkPads usually improves fairly
quickly as they tend to be the choice of several of the BSD developers,
though the S series is not listed by Lenovo as a ThinkPad, but just a
Lenovo Laptop. They appear to use less expensive processors (Celeron),
smaller memorys and hard drives (actually eMMCs). Notably, they lack the
ThinkPad TrackPoint, though a few ThinkPads did, as well, until customer
feedback caused Lenovo to restore it. (Yes! I hate touchpads!)
My S440 has a i3-4030U processor, a 128GB SSD, 4GB RAM and a ThinkPad
TrackPoint, and it’s perfect for my limited roaming needs… but only
under Windows, that’s it.
Best regards,
Juan
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