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megchan

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[SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

I have a card reader it's connected to the motherboard.
It has 2 LEDs.
When I turn off the computer, LEDs don't turn off.
I've updated BIOS recently and then they started to turn off.
A few weeks later I've ran pacman -Syu and now it doesn't  turn off again.

Last edited by megchan (2022-11-07 08:40:13)

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

Connected how? USB?

lsusb

Is there a parallel windows installation?
(3rd link below)

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megchan

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

Connected how? USB?

F_USB1 if I don't confuse anything

lsusb

Bus 001 Device 002: ID 058f:6362 Alcor Micro Corp. Flash Card Reader/Writer

Is there a parallel windows installation?

Yes. Fast boot is disabled btw when i boot windows and turn it off the LEDs turn off  too

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

Did you disable Fast Start in Windows itself or only similar-sounding options in BIOS/UEFI?

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

Also better re-check that - windows frequently re-enables it w/ updates.

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megchan

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

It is turned off in both BIOS and windows I checked

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

If you (cold) boot into WIndows and then shut it down, LEDs are still on?

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megchan

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

If you (cold) boot into WIndows and then shut it down, LEDs are still on?

No. It's off.

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

Mmm... Maybe I'm totally wrong and it's totally unrelated but... This could be realted to some ACPI and/or UEFI quirks, similar to this:

One rather dirty workaround is to boot to Windows and just reset the system (perform an ungraceful restart/shutdown) thus not giving the Windows driver a chance to disable LAN. The Link light will remain on and the LAN adapter will remain accessible after POST - that is until you boot back to Windows and shut it down properly again.

(https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Networ … ows_driver)

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

A few weeks later I've ran pacman -Syu and now it doesn't  turn off again.

Do you use the 6.0.x kernel? Does the same happen w/ the LTS kernel?

I assume the cardreader is an external device, attached w/ a USB cable?

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megchan

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

Just installed lts and nothing has changed.
It's connected to motherboard's F_USB1 connector not to USB A. So it's internal device i think.

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

If you suspend the system and jam a card into the reader, does it wake the system?

cat /proc/acpi/wakeup

One of those might reflect the card reader - if you disable it by echo'ing the 4-letter code into the file

echo FOO1 | sudo tee /proc/acpi/wakeup

it should no longer wake the system, but the interesting question will oc. be whether the LEDs turn off during the shutdown.

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megchan

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

How to suspend the system? With "systemctl suspend" command?

Device	S-state	  Status   Sysfs node
GPP0	  S4	*disabled
GPP1	  S4	*disabled
GPP3	  S4	*disabled
GPP4	  S4	*disabled
GPP5	  S4	*disabled
GPP6	  S4	*disabled
GPP7	  S4	*disabled
GPP8	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:03.1
GPP9	  S4	*disabled
GPPA	  S4	*disabled
GPPB	  S4	*disabled
GPPC	  S4	*disabled
GPPD	  S4	*disabled
GPPE	  S4	*disabled
GPPF	  S4	*disabled
GP10	  S4	*disabled
GP11	  S4	*disabled
GP12	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:07.1
GP13	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:08.1
XHC0	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:0d:00.3
GP30	  S4	*disabled
GP31	  S4	*disabled
PS2K	  S3	*enabled   pnp:00:04
		*disabled  serio:serio0
PS2M	  S3	*disabled
GPP2	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:01.3
PTXH	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:01:00.0

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

With "systemctl suspend" command?

For instance.

GPP8	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:03.1
GP12	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:07.1
GP13	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:08.1
XHC0	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:0d:00.3
PS2K	  S3	*enabled   pnp:00:04
GPP2	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:00:01.3
PTXH	  S4	*enabled   pci:0000:01:00.0

XHC0 is USB for sure. For the other devices compare "lspci" to see what they relate to.

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megchan

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

systemctl suspend

LEDs turned off after that. I tried to insert cards no reaction.
There was no signal on the monitor after turning pc on with the power button.

echo  XHC0| sudo tee /proc/acpi/wakeup

LEDs are on after shutting down

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

Question is whether that's consistent or a side effect of the (failed) S3 cycle.
If you can control the behavior this way, you could make this a shutdown hook in /usr/lib/systemd/system-shutdown/

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megchan

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

What hook?

PTXH is USB controller: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] 400 Series Chipset USB 3.1 XHCI Controller (rev 01)

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2Fu … hutdown%22

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megchan

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

sorry I didn't understand what the hook is supposed to do?

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

Check the wakeup state of the device and conditionally toggle it (off)?

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megchan

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Re: [SOLVED] LEDs don't turn off

Found a solution.

echo 1 > /sys/bus/usb/devices/1-7/remove

I've put it into /lib/systemd/system-shutdown/