Messages in this thread | | | From | Harvey <> | Subject | Re: Kernel error messages: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an LED's brightness failed | Date | Tue, 1 Aug 2017 09:53:00 +0200 |
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Hi Michał,
> A photo would be useful (though please do not attach it to your message,
> https://www.notebookcheck.net/fileadmin/_migrated/pics/Fujitsu-LB-E751-Tastatur_1j.jpg
That is exactly my laptop (well, except for those ugly windows badges ;))
To be completely sure I have taken two photos and posted them here: http://picpaste.com/IMG_20170720_125716-RazF0yQa.jpg http://picpaste.com/IMG_20170720_125736-zdpEGoHR.jpg Beware, the photos will only stay online for seven days.
> Are these the 11 LEDs you mentioned? > > - top, left: E, HDD, Num Lock, Caps Lock, Scroll Lock, > - top, right: I, Power Button, > - front (not pictured in the first photo above): Power Supply, Battery > Charging, Battery 1, Battery 2.
Yes, these are the LEDs in question
>> 1783:Jul 14 12:33:48 gruenix kernel: leds fujitsu::radio_led: Setting an >> LED's brightness failed (-2147483648) > > 4.11 included a patch which sets the default trigger for the radio LED > to rfkill-any, which would explain why you only started seeing these > errors after upgrading to that version. See also below. > >> Some of the LEDs are not working under linux, especially the bluetooth >> one > > Where is the Bluetooth LED located? I cannot see it. Can you show it > on a photo? How does it behave under other operating systems?
Well, IIRC the one in the I(nformation) key was acting as a bluetooth LED. I have another Harddisk with a working Win7 Installation which I will mount and report back later when I have the time.
>> and three others E, > > According to a manual I found [1], this is an "Energy saving functions > indicator", which is lit when "energy function are enabled". My guess > would be it can be repurposed under Linux.
Correct. Would be nice to reuse it in one way or another under linux
>> I(nformation) > > According to the same manual, this LED signals battery level when the > laptop is off (S5 state) and the "I" key is pressed. Not sure it can be > repurposed, but how does it behave under other operating systems?
See above. Will report this later when I changed harddisks. Under linux it does nothing. When suspended the three LEDs (1)Power (beneath the power button) (2)Power beneath the wireless slider (both blue) and (3)Battery2 are blinking.
>> and one that shows the sign of a >> lock with up and down arrows in it. > > That is Scroll Lock. I do not think fujitsu-laptop has anything to do > with it. If it does not work the way you expect it to, you might want > to search the web, because there are known inconsistencies in how > various distributions handle it.
Scroll lock works as expected. KDE had taken scroll lock due to a configuration I had forgotten. <Blush>
>> The case is equipped with a slider >> for Wireless on/off, if that matters. > > It does, see also below. > >> Although the message seems to be harmless I am somewhat embarrassed what >> happens here and thought I might report it to someone with more knowledge ;) > > Again, thank you for the report, because implementing a feature like > this in a platform driver often requires at least some guesswork, which > may result in that feature working for some users and misbehaving for > others. This is an example of such a situation. > > As you may have inferred from the patchwork link you visited, I was not > sure whether my method of detecting radio LED presence was correct. > Your report clearly proves I was wrong. Could you please send me the > BTNI value reported on your laptop? You should be able to look it up by > running: > > $ dmesg | grep BTNI
682:[ 12.189363] fujitsu_laptop: BTNI: [0x10f0101]
> In fact, posting your entire dmesg output somewhere would not hurt > either.
http://pasted.co/ce997722
> Anyway, you were curious what causes these log messages to appear. I > believe it happens because fujitsu-laptop _thinks_ you have a radio LED > present on your machine, which causes it to register this LED with a > default trigger set to rfkill-any. This means the kernel tries to > enable this LED whenever any radio transmitter is active and disable it > when all radio transmissions are disabled. In order to set the state of > the LED, the kernel driver calls a function exposed by the firmware. > This function returns an error, which is logged. The specific error > number you are seeing (-2147483648) means "unsupported command", which > means fujitsu-laptop attempted to use a feature which is unsupported by > your laptop's firmware. If you want to get rid of these messages, > running the following after every reboot should be enough: > > # echo "none" > /sys/class/leds/fujitsu::radio_led/trigger > > However, I would appreciate it if you could help us with finding out the > correct way to detect the radio LED (it may as well turn out it is not > possible by just checking firmware contents). For starters, we will > need your laptop's DSDT table, which you can extract using: > > # cat /sys/firmware/acpi/tables/DSDT > dsdt.bin > > The resulting binary file dsdt.bin is what is needed for further > analysis.
See attachded file
> [1] http://www.lpmanual.com/manuals/fujitsu/Fujitsu_LIFEBOOK_E751.pdf >
Conclusion: Only the LED I(nformation) and E(mpowering) LEDs are not working at all.
Glad to help further on. Don't hesitate to contact me. As said before I am in Spain right now but will frequently check my mail though.
Greetings Harvey
-- I am root. If you see me laughing, you'd better have a backup!
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