[arch-general] couple of log messages from kernel 3.2.2

[Max Lloyd]

I was getting errors similar to those on my thinkpad t520 but after some
searching on the forums I added 'blacklist mei' to my modprobe.conf and it
did the trick.
On Jan 30, 2012 3:17 PM, <rara8avis at aol.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 12:03:25PM -0800, Tim Stella wrote:
> > On 01/30/12 at 01:22pm, Genes MailLists wrote:
> > >
> > >  I noticed a couple of messages booting the new 3.2.2 kernel:
> > >
> > > (I) watchdog:
> > > ---------------------
> > >
> > > [287247.568009] NMI watchdog enabled, takes one hw-pmu counter.
> > > [287248.814530] watchdog: INTCAMT: cannot register miscdev on minor=130
> > > (err=-16).
> > > [287248.814536] watchdog: error registering /dev/watchdog (err=-16).
> > > [287248.814540] mei: unable to register watchdog device.
> > >
> > >
> > > (I) acpi:
> > > ---------------------
> > >
> > > [ 4749.406097] thinkpad_acpi: unknown possible thermal alarm or
> keyboard
> > > event received
> > > [ 4749.406108] thinkpad_acpi: unhandled HKEY event 0x6040
> > > [ 4749.406114] thinkpad_acpi: please report the conditions when this
> > > event happened to ibm-acpi-devel at lists.sourceforge.net
> > > [ 4749.406834] thinkpad_acpi: EC reports that Thermal Table has changed
> > >
> > >
> > >  suggestions on what I can do to track these down anymore ... or if it
> > > could be hard/firm ware issue on this lenovo W520 laptop.
> > >
> > >  thanks.
> > >
> > > g
> >
> > I'm getting the watchdog errors as well, on a T520 laptop, was curious
> of the
> > solution too, but haven't had time to look into it... maybe something to
> do with
> > Thinkpads?
> >
> > Tim Stella
> I'm also getting the watchdog errors, not on a laptop.  But mine says NMI
> watchdog disabled: not supported (no LACPI?)  FWIW
>
>