Re: 2.6.0-test4 - lost ACPI

[Tomasz Torcz <zdzichu@irc.pl>]

On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 12:47:04PM -0400, Brown, Len wrote:
 
> I didn't see which VIA 693 MB you've got, but it could be that a
> BIOS upgrade would move it from 09/13/00 to something past 1/1/2001 --
> the (yes, arbitrary) cutoff for enabling ACPI by default.

It's Matsonic 7132A (http://www.matsonic.com/ms7132a.htm ; 
http://206.135.80.155/manual/ms7132a.pdf).
Pretty nice board. Latest bios for it is dated 09/13/00 and
there is no upgrade.
 
> Or you could add "acpi=force" to your command line, as suggested in the
> dmesg output.

Tried this with strange results - kernel halted during boot,
after displaying:

[... dmesg ...]
PM: Adding info for ide:1.0
hda: max request size: 1024KiB
hda: 156301488 sectors (80026 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=16383/255/63, UDMA(66)
 /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p4
hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice

HALT. No sysrq, no shift+pgup, no response for power button.

Dmesg _without_ acpi=force: 

hdc: ATAPI 32X CD-ROM CD-R/RW drive, 8192kB Cache, DMA
Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12
mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
input: AT Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
Advanced Linux Sound Architecture Driver Version 0.9.6 (Wed Aug 20 20:27:13 2003 UTC).
PCI: Found IRQ 10 for device 0000:00:0b.0

And so on.

> Or you could change the source to alter or disable #define
> ACPI_BLACKLIST_CUTOFF_YEAR 2001

I will try this next. ACPI was working flawlessly for me almost from
the beginning.

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