ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

[Daniel]

I have a Compaq Laptop (*shiver*) and present distro versions featuring 
the 2.4.x kernel seem to panic or lock on bootup on my laptop.  I was 
wondering if ACPI was better supported in the 2.5.x kernel branch/2.6.0 
pre-kernel.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

It would lock when attempting to read my partition table on device 'hda' 
(my hard disk), or would panic when attempting to initalize the USB device.

-Daniel

Re: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

[Felipe Alfaro Solana]

On Wed, 2003-07-09 at 10:44, Daniel wrote:
> I have a Compaq Laptop (*shiver*) and present distro versions featuring 
> the 2.4.x kernel seem to panic or lock on bootup on my laptop.  I was 
> wondering if ACPI was better supported in the 2.5.x kernel branch/2.6.0 
> pre-kernel.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> It would lock when attempting to read my partition table on device 'hda' 
> (my hard disk), or would panic when attempting to initalize the USB device.

I think the best you can do it's trying by yourself :-)
For me, ACPI in 2.5 kernels do work better than in 2.4.

Re: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

[Alexander Hoogerhuis]

Daniel <daniel@hawton.org> writes:

> I have a Compaq Laptop (*shiver*) and present distro versions
> featuring the 2.4.x kernel seem to panic or lock on bootup on my
> laptop.  I was wondering if ACPI was better supported in the 2.5.x
> kernel branch/2.6.0 pre-kernel.  Any advice would be greatly
> appreciated.
> 

What model is the laptop?

> -Daniel

mvh,
A
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Re: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

[Daniel]

Alexander Hoogerhuis wrote:

> Daniel <daniel@hawton.org> writes:
> 
> 
>>I have a Compaq Laptop (*shiver*) and present distro versions
>>featuring the 2.4.x kernel seem to panic or lock on bootup on my
>>laptop.  I was wondering if ACPI was better supported in the 2.5.x
>>kernel branch/2.6.0 pre-kernel.  Any advice would be greatly
>>appreciated.
>>
> 
> 
> What model is the laptop?
> 

Compaq Presario 900

I would install and try a different kernel, but I can't get any distros' 
to boot to install, let alone install a different kernel. :(

> 
>>-Daniel
> 
> 
> mvh,
> A

-Daniel

Re: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

[Davide Libenzi]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Daniel wrote:

> I would install and try a different kernel, but I can't get any distros'
> to boot to install, let alone install a different kernel. :(

Actually it is exactly the contrary. Distribution's code base is always
older that the one available around here. You will get fixes you can see
today on lkml, "maybe" in the next of your favourite distro.



- Davide

Re: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

[Serguei Miridonov]

Visit http://videl.ics.hawaii.edu/mailman/listinfo/linuxpresario900 and you
will find almost everything you want about Linux on this laptop.

Daniel wrote:

> Alexander Hoogerhuis wrote:
>
> > Daniel <daniel@hawton.org> writes:
> >
> >
> >>I have a Compaq Laptop (*shiver*) and present distro versions
> >>featuring the 2.4.x kernel seem to panic or lock on bootup on my
> >>laptop.  I was wondering if ACPI was better supported in the 2.5.x
> >>kernel branch/2.6.0 pre-kernel.  Any advice would be greatly
> >>appreciated.
> >>
> >
> >
> > What model is the laptop?
> >
>
> Compaq Presario 900
>
> I would install and try a different kernel, but I can't get any distros'
> to boot to install, let alone install a different kernel. :(
>
> -Daniel

--
Serguei Miridonov

Re: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

[Davide Libenzi]

On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Daniel wrote:

> I have a Compaq Laptop (*shiver*) and present distro versions featuring
> the 2.4.x kernel seem to panic or lock on bootup on my laptop.  I was
> wondering if ACPI was better supported in the 2.5.x kernel branch/2.6.0
> pre-kernel.  Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
>
> It would lock when attempting to read my partition table on device 'hda'
> (my hard disk), or would panic when attempting to initalize the USB device.

If it uses a SiS650 chipset you can try this :

http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/misc.html#SiSRt

Even if I am not much confident about success in your case. Also, I
believe Alan was working of fixing ACPI for SiS. You might want to check.



- Davide

Re: ACPI status in 2.5.x/2.6.0

[Alan Cox]

On Mer, 2003-07-09 at 17:40, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> 
> http://www.xmailserver.org/linux-patches/misc.html#SiSRt
> 
> Even if I am not much confident about success in your case. Also, I
> believe Alan was working of fixing ACPI for SiS. You might want to check.

2.4.22pre has the workaround for SiS APIC and that seems to make ACPI
generally work. I've actually been rewriting chunks of the IRQ router
code today and included the SiS fixups and detection Davide did.