From: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
To: jnf <jnf@datakill.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: new laptop woes
Date: 11 May 2004 23:20:57 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1084332057.12354.127.camel@dhcppc4> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSO.4.58.0405112032430.31433@metawire.org>
On Tue, 2004-05-11 at 21:37, jnf wrote:
> > try booting with "nolapic"
>
> This worked - now seeing as it worked, and I can't find any mention of it
> in the bootparam man page [and i havent dug through the source yet], what
> exactly did i do?
Linux enables the Local APIC even on uni-processors systems so that it
can use the LOCal APIC timer. This policy causes a significant
population of laptops to freeze when booted with ACPI enabled.
Curiously, we've seen this failure go away on some laptops after a BIOS
upgrade -- so you shoul verify that you're running the latest BIOS for
your system.
Perhaps you could try the test patch here
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2044
and add a comment to the bug report on if it makes any difference or not.
>
> > I escaped from CVS in 1994, underwent several years of therapy, and
> > haven't used it since. I don't know what ACPI CVS is on SF, point me to
> > it and I'll be happy to delete it.
>
> hehe no problem, I was under the impression that was the 'official' site
> for acpi, but i found that odd seeing as nothing on the site seemed newer
> than ~12 months, and i knew that ACPI had undergone some fixes/changes
> since then.
/usr/src/MAINTAINERS lists me as the maintainer, and has this home page
for the project, which is updated periodically (tho not by me):
http://acpi.sourceforge.net/
cheers,
-Len
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-12 3:21 UTC|newest]
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2004-05-11 17:09 ` new laptop woes Len Brown
2004-05-12 1:37 ` jnf
2004-05-12 3:20 ` Len Brown [this message]
2004-05-13 12:55 Martin Knoblauch
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2004-05-11 16:24 jnf
2004-05-12 7:14 ` Helge Hafting
2004-05-12 15:19 ` jnf
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