From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Scott Dylewski Subject: Re: lenovo ideapad s12 dsdt errors... Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:20:39 -0700 Message-ID: <1255368039.12236.334.camel@localhost> References: <1255116847.12236.272.camel@localhost> <4ACFE685.1020209@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from hapkido.dreamhost.com ([66.33.216.122]:58455 "EHLO hapkido.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757120AbZJLRWc (ORCPT ); Mon, 12 Oct 2009 13:22:32 -0400 Received: from blingymail-a2.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by hapkido.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id F192F184C35 for ; Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:21:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4ACFE685.1020209@gmail.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Robert Hancock Cc: ACPI Devel Maling List I don't see any obvious errors in dmesg, but using "acpi=off" on boot seems to work much faster (no delays)... I'll have to diagnose these problems tonight when I get home, but do you have any suggestions for how to debug the long boot pause and/or the fact that the boot process continues as soon as I touch the touchpad or keyboard? On Fri, 2009-10-09 at 19:42 -0600, Robert Hancock wrote: > On 10/09/2009 01:34 PM, Scott Dylewski wrote: > > I just bought a Lenovo S12 netbook (atom processor) and installed Ubuntu > > Karmic netbook remix on it, and I'm having some issues. I'm getting > > some long boot times, and wonder if it's related to the ACPI stuff. > > > > So I found some stuff online that suggests that my dsdt may have some > > errors, and when I checked, it used a MSFT compiler and had a bunch of > > warnings and errors, but I don't know how to fix them. Can someone > > direct me a bit and either help me fix the errors if needed, or let me > > know what to do? > > That's probably outdated advice - the kernel normally tries to deal with > such issues itself (or handle them the same way as Windows does, which > presumably works) and so replacing the DSDT isn't likely to help much. > Anyway, it's far from clear that your problem is at all related. > > Are there any errors showing up in dmesg?