Bug 467820 - ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE
Summary: ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE
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Status: CLOSED INSUFFICIENT_DATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kernel
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
low
low
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: John Feeney
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
: 465294 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2008-10-21 02:38 UTC by Ralf Corsepius
Modified: 2013-01-10 07:07 UTC (History)
1 user (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-08-23 05:51:04 UTC
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Description Ralf Corsepius 2008-10-21 02:38:08 UTC
Description of problem:
I am observing this:

# grep ACPI: /var/log/dmesg
ACPI: EC: non-query interrupt received, switching to interrupt mode
ACPI: EC: GPE storm detected, disabling EC GPE
ACPI: EC: GPE = 0x17, I/O: command/status = 0x66, data = 0x62
ACPI: EC: driver started in poll mode

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Current (2008-10-21) rawhide: kernel-2.6.27.3-27.rc1.fc10.i686

How reproducible:
Always

Additional info:
* I read http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10724
but this didn't answer much to me.
* The machine exposing this issue is a Medion E1210, an Atom N270 based netbook, an MSI Wind variant.

Comment 1 Matthew Garrett 2008-10-21 03:03:45 UTC
The message is pretty harmless - it simply indicates that your embedded controller has been switched into polled mode. This code is currently being rewritten and the message should disappear in 2.6.28 or 2.6.29.

Comment 2 Ralf Corsepius 2008-10-21 03:51:40 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> The message is pretty harmless
If you say so - Let's keep fingers crossed ;)

Comment 3 Dave Jones 2008-10-22 15:21:47 UTC
*** Bug 465294 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Naresh 2008-11-28 10:47:30 UTC
I see my touchpad becomes useless after i see this error in the log. Using (2.6.27.7-130.fc10.x86_64)

CPI: EC: GPE storm detected, transactions will use polling mode
hub 7-0:1.0: port 2 disabled by hub (EMI?), re-enabling...
usb 7-2: USB disconnect, address 3
bcm5974: bcm5974: could not read from device
usb 7-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 4
usb 7-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
input: Apple, Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.0/input/input10
input,hidraw1: USB HID v1.11 Keyboard [Apple, Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad] on usb-0000:00:1d.2-2
hidraw2: USB HID v1.11 Device [Apple, Inc. Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad] on usb-0000:00:1d.2-2
input: bcm5974 as /devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.2/usb7/7-2/7-2:1.2/input/input11
usb 7-2: New USB device found, idVendor=05ac, idProduct=0230
usb 7-2: New USB device strings: Mfr=1, Product=2, SerialNumber=0
usb 7-2: Product: Apple Internal Keyboard / Trackpad
usb 7-2: Manufacturer: Apple, Inc.


After that , all the tapping/right-clicking, etc goes for a toss.

Comment 5 Naresh 2010-04-30 13:24:41 UTC
I nolonger own this macbook. i can't test it anymore.


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